2012, the one

After two weeks off from everything, it is time for some real life and work again.
So let's go back to last year.
It's gonna take a while.
I had a blast.

JANUARY

I was in Sri Lanka with my family and friends and it was a stunner.
Surfing, drinking, meeting local people and our god-children and see how the other half lives. Makes you think.

After Sri Lanka, I caught a terrifying flu and sickness which grated me for the whole Spring.
Not kidding.
I can somehow blame myself, felt bad and sick and still had to have nights out in the cold and..well, I lived at the fullest and suffered from it afterwards. No regrets.

FEBRUARY

The much waited and practiced and stressed about, THE OLD DANCES. Heaps of fun, everyone in their best dresses and suits and of course the wicked after party.

Then my friend from Austria visited me and our style of partying.
Also just nights with my loved-ones and snowbarding in Sweden. And just heaps of medicine and sickness.

MARCH
Same continues. Being sick, partying.
The Sounds live again, amazing and wiiicked party.
From there got a ride from an old-friend who happened to live next to the partyhouse I was heading.
What an amazing coincidence and WHAT A PARTY.
If you wake up in the dogs bed and someone has been cross-country skiing and some one rollerblading downstairs, it must have been a good one.

I also managed to get a driving-licence and family Raavikko and my love to Robin started. My motivation to school was faar below zero

and I used my doctor's appointments and documents to faaar too many skipped lessons.
Kind of suffered from that but also had warm and laughfull hours in radiostudio with my very best schoolmates.
That was really the time of coffeemaker BOSSE(yes, our coffeemaker has a name) and radiostudio.
We had the legendary "Boardgame-night" and lots of things happened.

And then the night that led to the break-up of me and my long-last friend with benefit, Gin Lemon.
The night was good, "Nutrisious saladnight" but the morning was far away from this planet.
The last day in my home-snowboarding center was 4 hours long and included 3 rides up&down and 3 hours of painful sleeping in the toilet of a cafe. Not missing G&L. At all.

APRIL 

Spring started and brought the annual snowboardingtrip to Lapland on Easter and for the firts time me& my friend Jansku were 18.
Sun shining every day, snow being still snow, not wet, heaps of Minttu-cocoas and partying till 4AM.
Up at 8AM, breakfeast and back to the slopes.
4 days of this, pure love but what happens in Ruka, stays in Ruka.

I was sad cause I couldn't do as much snowboarding as I've used to cause I was so sick. And when the season ended, I was sad, sick and out of money.
School didn't intrest one bit.
Quite of times.

MAY

Started with good weekend with outgoing ex-change students and coaching them for their year.
I had an amazing group of happy, realistic, bright and funny students got extremly close to them.
Learned that good and crazy night doesn't look age and backgrounds.

The weekend continued with finnish tradition party, VAPPU.
No words or explanations needed.

There was lot of sunshine but not much studying.
I put off everything, was lazy and had to do everything before the last minute.
Stressing and I couldn't wait to get away and start working in the different city.
But before that, had for example the whole day off for partying, gossiping, eating and drinking it up with my ladies. Perfect.

All I can say is that live in a moment, laugh damn hard, and do things spontaneously.

I started to write this blog, which shocked many including myself and I had a blast playing some soccer with my best school mates.

JUNE

The summervacation started and I was doing really fine !
I had awesome, light and long nights in here for first weeks and then headed for an adventure.
Adventure called Turku.
Summer that changed the whole roll of my life and thought me first of all, how to be a waitress and how to really work.
I learned just heaps and enjoyed what I was doing. My friends from capital area visited me and we had reaaaaly summery and sparkly nights.

But things started to roll in JULY

It was RUISROCK, the legendary festival and full-on single and crazy friend life. Just as it's meant to be.

After the crazy as festival, I went out to the famous nightlife of Turku aaanndd..well, rest is history.
I started to go out with my goood working mate and all the elements for a cliché summer-romance were at their place.

Then it was just all spontaneus and going with the flow.
Working the days, going for a picnic or crab-party with my parents mates for the night.
If we felt like going for a bike-ride 10PM, we went.
If the feeling said a cardrive to the nearby city, we headed there.
The flow was the neighbourpub and karaoke, that's what we did.
It was just so amazing and more amazing was that above all this, I got some studying for the final exams done.
It's hard to explain but those were some of the best days so far in my life.
And the month ended perfectly with a weekend we'd been planning for a long time with my classmates.

AUGUST

Didn't bring much change, lots of working, chilling, laughing, drinking and studying.
One of the higlights were me, A and my new boyfriend in Turkus nightlife.
It didn't other me one bit that I was the driver cause the company was so good and so funny.
The last weekend of my holiday was also really nice except THE hangover after the famous Jallumölkky.

The school started, good to catch up with friends and got some timing for my studying. Not too much tho.

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

My life started after the exams.
It was ZOO, partys, chilling in Helsinki, eating out..autumnholiday in Stockholm aaand of course, caught the flu again.
I was away from school lots and we started the project 100 movies.

Pancake breakfeast :))

NOVEMBER

Was gooood but also it just went on and on and it was dark, windy and rainy.
But there was hope of the upcoming month.
And also a little afraid of the month after next(which practically is today).
The time had just flown by, it had just been July and life was damn easy.
Now it was November and I had to have my studys in order.
Which I still don't. But it had its moments

Happy one-year RAHKA-BEER- anniversary to me&A !

DECEMBER

Started out very nicely with my birthday which had been waited for a while.
It brought together warm brunch of people that are important to me and together we turned Helsinki city around.
Club Aussie Bar treated us well whereas pre-party didn't and ended my night somewhere around 10.30PM. But it was wicked, fun, awesome, full of love as long as it lasted !
Then I accidently spent sometime in school too.

Then there was the suprise birthdaymorning for J and good birthday party first in Helsinki and then in good old Turku.

A family pre-X-mas and the of course the real Christmas. Time with family, tv, presents, snow and good food. Perfect :)

The between days I spent with J or the SALEs.
Made good food, watched movies and one season of Californication.
Spontaneous baking-session, me and bf coming home, 3 minutes later Jurriina calls " Would you like to come and bake with me and Hippie? We are coming to get you to with the car, will be there in 5minutes." Awesome time, this is how it's done :))
And then New Years and girls night in ! Burritos, wine, drinks, gossip, movies, fireworks and deadly slippery roads. Goood time :)

That was my 2012.
The year went fast but slow enough. I learnt what things like love, flow, anger, jealous, studying, disappointment, sickness, scare, work, lose and miss means.
I fell in love and still had a blast with my friends.
I had a year that I'm proud of and one that I'll remember and one that I grew up in.
No idea what this one will bring to me but let's hope for the best, and most of all,
                 
                        GO WITH THE F*CKING FLOW.