Friends from Finland

I've been in USA for almost year and a half now and none of my friends or family has visited yet. This is about to change in February! YAY! I'm so excited! And it has partially to do with the long list of candy I gave her but more about the fact that I get to see a familiar face from the past and speak Finnish etc. Saara, my one time almost step-sister-in-law is coming to NYC in February and has squeezed me in to her busy schedule on Valentine's day (which is also Elviira's b-day...send me some blueberry pie woman!) so as this is my day off, I'll be dragging my ass to the city and we will catch up! It's been awhile...can't remember the last time we saw each other.

We've been living in our apartment for 10 months now and have really had no visitors. We don't really entertain...We're always on the road to see other people but they don't really flock to see us. It's weird. It's us who always go see her family or meet have way with her mom for lunch etc but other than T's mom, her cousins Erin and Celeste, no one else from her family has seen our place. So far only CJ and Steph have visited us and that was for 5 minutes before we left for dinner. We have tried to get together with my friend Candace for a long time now for a WII night and drinks but that has always fallen through. And none of my friends or family can obviously just stop by. so you're all invited. Just call first! LOL!

So yesterday was the first day of classes for me...and last for the week too. I have this Indian professor (from India, not native American) who has taught 3 classes I've attended before. He is very intelligent, has a lot of knowledge about wide variety of subjects and has been a professor here since I think 1969...but he is SO BORING. I was ready to kill myself after 40 minutes in class! I was prepared though. when in his class, have snacks for the whole duration. Drink fluids, mainly coffee and have baby carrots, grapes and candy on hand. The trick is to eat through the class.Keep your blood sugar elevated. And yesterday was bad too because we were in a class room with no air circulation and across the hallway was another class in session with a female teacher who talked louder than ours so we closed the doors. OMG it was hot in there to begin with but after closing the door...it was terrible. And no oxygen to be had. The professor made a comment about people dropping cigarette buts to the drain and people not wanting to say anything because they wanted to avoid and argument and possibly getting shot...so once the doors were closed a friend of mine wrote me a note saying he was afraid we'd run out of oxygen...I replied that no one will say anything because we're afraid of getting shot! It was probably funnier if you were there yourself...He did let us go early, at 7pm so a bunch of us went to the diner before our next class started at 8:15. The second class was great, the professor is awesome and he is excited about the topic which keeps us all up at 11pm! My friend Ken gave me a ride home and I was home after 11. My brain is always wired after getting home at 11 so I can't really fall asleep right away. Sucks to have classes at 11pm but the good thing is I only have 1 day per week! Anyway, school started.

I just read that Teemu signed a 2-year contract with the Ducks so I have a chance of seeing him in the area (or where ever we will be) next year! He wants to play in the Olympics in Vancouver in 2010 so that's good news...for me and for the Finnish hockey fans. What's age when your having fun?

I'm gonna TRY to work now...Later.