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Exhausted


In the 48 hours since arriving, I've been to:
- IKEA twice
- the Internet store four times (and I still don't have Internet)
- work twice (once did about 30 minutes and the other about 6 hours)
- the grocery store twice (but I don't seem to have any food)
- Gigantti once - TVs and washer/dryer
- bank once (to pay deposit for Internet since I don't have online banking....bank hours are 10-4:30 - entirely convenient)
- one of ten Finnish classes
- R Kioski to try to pay Internet deposit (unsuccessfully) and then to get bus pass for the week (same price for a week for a foreigner as for a month for a local - will go down once I get my permit)
- Stockmann's once

And I forget what else. 

The great news is someone got the memo I was worried I'd never see the sun again and put it out. Temps have been upper 50s and it feels great!  Also everything is alive and green- huge difference to a month ago!

Pics may look weird since I'm posting from my phone, but here are a few.

View from new office - no Town Lake, but so nice to see green (and blue).

My dinner at IKEA tonight. Not okay. I don't eat hotdogs

I will soon be the proud new owner of a pink couch - watch out. 

Yesterday's classwork 

Joke for blinds - this is before 4:30 this morning. 

A bit better - this is 9pm or so. 

My stylish and trendy nightstand. Who needs real furniture?

Then "default" background on my new Finnish phone...cruel joke?



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