Around The World: September 2006

My nephew´s and new neice

This entry really doesn´t have much purpose except to show off my sisters cute children. On September 18th she had her first baby girl, Amiel Cate. Although I am yet to actually see her she looks really cute in all the photos I have been send.

Being away from my new nephew´s this year is proving to be really hard since everytime I see a photo of them they both seem to have grown so much. I remember before I left when Isaac seemed so little and was still crawling round the room and now he is looking so much bigger and even walking. It is so weird to think that Daniel will be starting school next year. I still remember getting a phone call from mum saying Bec had had a little boy and now she has 3 children. Time really does fly by these days. I think all of them are as cute as each other and being away from them as been so much harder than I could have ever imagined. As hard as it will be to leave Finland, I can´t wait to see them and see how much they have grown and changed.

My big cute boy Daniel!!!

Little Isaac!!

New baby Amiel!!! She is so small

Third and Final Host Family!

Well I have now moved to my final host family. They live about 800m from school and downtown which is really good. I have now been living with them for about 11 days and already they have made me feel like part of the family. They are a really nice family and I am loving living with them. I have included a couple of pictures of them. Everyone in the first photo doesn´t live at home although most of them do. The guy in the white shirt is the oldest and he lives out of home but in Lappeenranta aswell. The older women in the blue and black stripe shirt is my host dad´s mum who was visiting for the weekend and the girl with short blonde hair in the grey jumper lives in Espoo with her real mum but comes and stays here one weekend a month.

This photo is of all of us girls. My host mum was joking around when we had it taken saying it was ´Miss´competition.

Lauri's Army Oath

Sorry about this being a bit late but here it is anyway. On the 18th of August I travelled to Kotka (Southern Finland) with Lauri's parents for his Army Oath. Although it was all in Finnish and I really didn't understand much it was good to go and get to see him make it, since it is a really big thing for him. His parents came and picked me up from my host families house at 9am and I drove with them for about an hour and a half to where the oath was held. The though of travelling alone with his parents worried me at first but they were really good and talked to me the whole way down about everything and anything. His mum also tried her hardest to talk to me even though she doesn't really speak English.