Juttu Helsingissä

So day 1: Jere invited milka and i to his place after milka finished work on monday to eat some delicious soup and salad with FRESHLY ROASTED PINENUTS!!! that he'd made and make pipareita!! oli niin hauska, was heaps fun. Forgot my camera unfortunately so took a substitute pic on tuesday of me and milka eating some very sad broken and smooshed left over pipareita (still delicious tho - they're iced ginger biscuits). Then jere-the-lock-picker explained to me how locks work which i've actually always wanted to know and now i kinda do!
On tuesday I succeeded in getting myself a sim card for a mere €4,90 and it works even.
Met up with Kiira for lunch at a little cafe in forum which was great, spoke more finnish out loud than i have so far. In the afternoon (after trying and failing to get that vaccine) i did a spot of bouldering with Jere, Dimmu ja Elina (so prob a good thing i didn't get that vaccine today) and jere invited milka and i to go see a friend of theirs' band playing tonight, which was really really cool! It was something like modern finnish folk music with 3 girls, one singing (gorgeous voice), one played sax (2 different varieties... jon'd know which!) and the other played a large electric version of a traditional finnish instrument that's a bit like a small harp lying down on a stand! I forget what it was called but it sounded good! Their set was short but sweet like something really deliciously sweet (good simile huh), really beautiful. one note in particular even sent a shiver down my spine. Didn't stick around for the following bands cos everyone was a bit tired.
What will day 3 have in store?
no, menen nukkumaan
heippä
ps weather's been pretty comfortable so far. Every time i've seen the temp it's been over zero! (+1 and +2 so far :p) not bad not bad. wait til i head north...