'Eat what Jesus did: Fish, whole grains, and vegetables'

That's from the reading comphrension part of my English test today. It was an article about how people who eat junk food are fat, and stuff about that. Not suprisingly, they really only talked about how people in USA are dealing with it, but it was interesting none-the-less. My teacher also showed me the final exam that the 3rd years wrote. It also had some interesting articles in it, way better than my English exam last year. There was one on why more girls don't go into computer science and one on mushrooms in Britain. Pretty darn interesting.

Yesterday after my English prep class I went to the city with Hellu and we went to KoskiKeskus(the mall in Tampere), where, suprise suprise, I found pants. My jeans have been getting rather thin and I've been on the look out for a deal on pants, being that they're fricking expensive here. So we were looking in i.C. and I saw these cool pants. I checked out the price tag before falling in love with them(as I've learned to do here...I saw this really cool sweater for about 90€ and it wasn't like uber fancy or anything). My jaw dropped. 7.90€, and they were 39.90€ before. So I tried them on and I ended up going back to get a bigger pair because the first pair were too small. When I was there, the woman from the store was there re-tagging all the pants. Checking out the new price, I braced myself. 3.90€. It was absolutley insane. I ended up getting two pairs, being that they were so cheap, and I needed new pants anyways. It was insane, I still can't believe it.

Tomorrow, I will have been in Finland for 2 months. It's crazy, it doesn't seem like I've been here that long. I can definetly tell that my Finnish has improved though, I understand WAY more that I did when I first came here. It's pretty cool, being that I haven't taken any formal lessons or anything aside from Karkku. Although I did learn alot from German and French, and a little from English. Don't get me wrong, I still have a long way to go, but I understand a lot more than I did 2 months ago. I can have a short conversation with my sister in Finnish, and ask simple things, which is really cool. It is frustrating sometimes though, like when you have a complex thought that you just can't express to someone or explain, although I'm getting better at that. I've been asked how to explain so many words, and it's hard sometimes. Some of the words I've never heard before and that makes it pretty damn hard, because I guess that since I'm a native speaker, people kind of assume I've heard every word before, but it's fun. I got 'matrical' yesterday. According to www.dictionary.com it means 'of or relating to a matrix'. Although I totally forgot the word 'term' existed. Everyone has been asking me what 'jakso' was in English, because we start a new one tomorrow....and I didn't know the word for it. Ah well, life goes on.