Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man. No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body.


OK, so it was the first proper summery day today. I slept with my window open last night, and I woke up to the smell of sap and pollen. By mid-day, my whole room was streaming with sunlight and was filled with a flowery perfume. There aren't that many flowers near me, so Lord knows where the floral fragrance came from, but it was nice. I spent my afternoon lazily doing Finnish exercises in my 'textbook'. There are some really dodgy examples in this book like:

They don't seem dodgy, but they just don't sit right with my English ears. Anyway, that was my afternoon sorted, getting ever so closer to finally grasping the entire Finnish case system. Anyway, I went for a walk around my University campus today. I've added two of my favourite pictures, just cos I want to show you what a nice day it was. It was, however, quite cold, so I am looking forward to the days where I can lie on the grass with my friends, look up at the clouds, talk about pesky and annoying lecturers, and dream our summer away. 

I would have had loads of nice pictures because the tress are starting to bloom, shards of pollen float on shafts of light that edges its way between the tree trunks, the other colours are coming out to play. But round here, you look wierd if you're not taking a picture of yours and your mates foreheads inside a nightclub. I was taking the first picture, when some random Lithuanian girl who is on my friends course stopped by and asked why I was taking pictures of "no clouds". The pictures are, in any case, the lake on my university campus. It's been said 'round these parts that we have one of the nicest campuses in the country. I'd like to think so :-)

 
 

One thing I have realised though, is that my rent next year is £975 for the first term, wheras this year it was £1635 (bit of a difference there!), which means I am 100% going to Helsinki the first weekend after my 21st (which will be mid-October because of stupid uni). Theres no reason for me not to go. Akateeminen Kirjakauppa here I come!