Funny Search Engine Terms Part 2

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Hey all

I decided to write continue my habit of writing some funny search engine terms here because I noticed that there have been some hilarious ones again. You can find part one of the series HERE if you didn’t see it yet!

PSST. Can you recognise the place where I took the picture in? If you can’t, check this post… Anyway, here are the search terms:

The new Finnish passport moose 2013, Finnish passport moose, Walking moose Finnish passport, New Finnish passport animals, Finland passport snowflakes, Finnish passport the best
I must admit that I’m quite surprised by how many people want to see the new Finnish passport… When I was writing the post I thought that nobody would be interested in seeing it but what happened?? Most of search terms that found their way to my blog were similar to these… Well, to all the curious ones, you can find a post about the Finnish passport here in my blog AND it’s the best passport in the world indeed

Biggest makeup palette in the world
What? If somebody knows what the biggest makeup palette in the world looks like, let me know… I have no idea

Oulu things to do or see student
Awwwww!! Exchange students going to Oulu?? Good luck…

Anything with tuna tastes great to me in pizza
I could’ve written this… Olives, cheese, ham, anything!!! I want some pizza now.

Pizza history museum
Please stop torturing me I NEED some pizza now…

Is the Canon 1000D or 600D better?
Both of them are really good, but if you want to record videos as well as photos, you should get 600D.

Oulu Helsinki drive hours
Depends on how fast you drive

Klorane leave in fluid with mango
NOT available in Finland and NOT available in Spain… If somebody knows where it actually is available apart from ebay, please let me know!!!!

Hymypoika
 http://hitchyourwagontoastarblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/hymypoika-hymytytto/

Cheap Japanese sweets and other nice stuff
Found somewhere in this blog for sure, but where… You must find out

Strange drink names
Huh????

Help my Brazilian hair is tangled and dry
Sorry but I can’t help with your Brazilian hair… But what I do with my tangled and dry Finnish hair is simple. I use oil (olive oil etc.) to moisturise it and Tangle Tweezer to comb.

Aussie hair products Istanbul
I have no idea where to find them in Istanbul, so if somebody knows you could let me know as well

Where I can buy Reese’s in Finland
In Prisma, for example…

Hola Espanha 2013, Hola
Hola!!

Hilarious search terms
Found here in this blog…

Cosmetic wagon
What is a cosmetic wagon…?

Finland moeda markka
Marco finlandês em português, Finnish markka in English… How come somebody found my blog with these terms?? I never even wrote the word ‘moeda’ here

Pics of shoes
Found under the category ‘shoes’.

Footwear used to warming in house
SHEEP SLIPPERS!!!!!

Our trip to Oulu
I can’t tell about your trip to Oulu but I can tell about my own Going back to Oulu on May 31st!

Finland money and typical kinds of work
We use euros in Finland, but I can’t say about typical kinds of work… It can be quite challenging to find a job in Finland if you can’t speak Finnish unless you’re a native English speaker and find work as a teacher or something.

Spain April and May 2013 daily life of the poor
I don’t know if I should laugh or cry now

I guess that was enough for today… I’m off to study maths now because the exam week is about to begin.  Hopefully your weekend will be a bit more interesting than mine

Paseo Marítimo at Night

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Photography, Spain

Hey all

I had a free morning today, and I woke up really early so I decided to do some photowalking. My goal was to take pictures of the sunrise and the sea but when I opened the window shutters of my house I noticed that it was terribly foggy and I wouldn’t be able to see the sun rise for sure. However, I didn’t want to give up so I took my camera and went for a walk anyway- and actually liked how some of the pics turned out!
I’d be glad to hear your opinion on this picture, that’s why I posted only one and no other pics this time. I like the picture because it shows something real, captures the moment when I took it. Another reason why I liked this particular one is that I’ve taken pictures of the same place before – but during sunny days only. This one shows the place in a completely different light.
And by the way, thank you all for sending such nice comments again♥ I’ll reply to them and see some nice blogs on Monday, so be patient I’ll also upload some Málaga pics & other pics that I took this morning when I get to use Wifi next time.
Have a great Saturday!!

PS. If you can’t see the pic properly, please adjust your monitor’s brightness

Weekly Photo Challenge: (Subway) Culture

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Good morning… Wait, it’s midday already!! I’ve been trying to avoid doing school stuff for hours already, and now I even started writing this post because writing essays doesn’t sound too tempting on a Sunday that also happens to be the only day of this week that I won’t have to go to school.
Anyway, when I saw that this week’s Photo Challenge will be about culture, I immediately remembered about this photo that’s been lying on my desktop for ages and I haven’t used it here in my blog yet. The photo was taken in Seoul but I’m not sure which station it was, probably 여의도 but it doesn’t matter in this case because I don’t want to talk about a particular station or place.
What I had in mind is that ‘subway culture’ seems to be really similar all around the world, just the language changes (and most subway stations have at least some text in English, too). There are often different kinds of street musicians in the tunnel, not to mention the cheap food!! And subway is a perfect place for people watching
I prefer to use subway when I travel because it’s easy to use in most places, at least if you know where you’re going to. In my opinion it’s often difficult to take a bus in a new city, but I never got lost using a subway yet. And you can always go back the same route if you miss your stop :p

Now it’s time for me to stop procrastinating and start working on my homework (read: eating pancakes). And thanks a lot for your lovely comments on my previous post, they’ll help me a lot when I start writing the article

Have a nice Sunday!! ♥

I want to know YOUR opinion!! :)

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Finland, school

Hey all! I must write an article for my Finnish & Literature class, and I chose the topic to be Stereotypes about the Finns and Finland. I already heard some foreigners’ opinions on Finland, but I still need few more answers to write the article. Finns also participate too because I’ll compere the Finns’ opinion on Finland to what the foreigners think.
So, if you’d like to help me, please answer to these questions (or some of them:) in the comments section:

• What do you think about Finland, the Finns and/or the Finnish language?
• How well do you know Finland (For example, do you have Finnish friends?)
• Where do you come from? (Just to compare if people from different parts of the world have similar stereotypes or not:)
• Something else?? You are allowed to add some extra information if you feel inspired to write more

A biiiiiig thank you to all who take their time to help me ♥

Easter in Spain (Photos only:)

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Easter, expat, Spain

(I love her smile!! She looked sooooo happy!

Helloooooo As I promised to post a bit more often, here are the Easter pics that I talked about! This Easter was so different compared to how I normally celebrate Easter in Finland, but it was great anyway even if the parade wasn’t so big in my town (compared to Málaga for example).
I’ll take my laptop to school tomorrow to answer to the comments and see some of my favourite blogs as I always do I’m planning to publish at least one post next week, but the topic is still a secret!!

Have an awesome Sunday everybody!! ♥

Foods of March

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Helloooo

It took me almost one month to post here even if these photos were all ready on my laptop… Shame on this lazy girl!!! Nah, school started and I’ve been busy in general as well, especially because I need to clean the house and cook in addition to going to school and trying to have some free time as well so I hope you ladies & gents can understand my situation From now on I’ll try my best to post at least once a week even if it may mean that I can’t sleep as much as normally and have to buy a few coffees to stay awake and write…

Let’s move on to today’s main topic now… This post will be all about foooooood I took some pics of the foods I cooked and/or ate in March, so I’ll post all of them in once like I did in February too! Enjoy (and please don’t laugh at the foods I made )

This first one here’s something that I ate at a restaurant! There was fish, bread and blue cheese… Sooooo delicious!!!!

 A simple salad: green stuff (:D), olives, tangerines and feta cheese.

Food for studying: juice and Muumi biscuits to eat while pretending to read my Portuguese book

It took me a while to find a Spanish milk that I like, I think I tried at least 10 different types before I found this one. It isn’t perfect, but good enough to drink daily

This is a random dessert that I made……. Don’t laugh at it!! There were 3 bananas and some whipped cream in my fridge and they were about to get old so I had to use them somehow :p

As you can probably notice, I didn’t cook this one… My Brazilian guest made it!! :p I’m not 34234235% sure what it contains; there’s at least tomato purée, cheese, pasta, meat and some magic

This one is obviously made by me… Just used all the things that I could find in my kitchen (as always), and the food turned out not as bad as it could’ve Just wondering, where’s the salad??? Seriously, I don’t eat so much unhealthy stuff, I just tend to eat healthy things, such as carrots and apples as a snack rather than with a meal. Or at least I like to think so :p

This is not food but since I have to buy water almost every time I go buy food I must mention it here… I could mention something like 34534346 positive things about Spain, but one of the few negative ones is that you can’t drink straight from the tap :/

(To my parents: you should forget about this picture, I know that white bread is unhealthy and rye bread is good for health… :p)

Lion cookie things… They’re not exactly cookies but more like small cakes

More tangerines… I loooooove them!! They taste so much better here than what they do in Finland

Finally!! A meal with salad! I think I didn’t eat the whole salad though :p Anyway, the yellow part is rice, spices and tuna (I know, still couldn’t stop eating tuna… I should stop eating it!!!)

I bought these noodles once and they called me a loser Never going to eat these again!!!!

Rice, olives (I love olives as you can see ) and chicken meatballs.I obviously bought this one for Easter I bought it on Maundy Thursday and my plan was to eat it on Easter Sunday, but what happened?? I ate it one day too early… Well, I  could resist eating it for longer than I expected anyway :p

Next time I’ll post some pics about Easter in my town Stay tuned!

Pics and shoes

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expat, shoes, Spain

Heyyyy all!!
The past few days have been particularly nice here- so warm outside that I wish my skin was a bit darker and it wouldn’t get burned all the time… I also didn’t find a nice hat yet, so my head starts to hurt easily when I stay in the sun for too long! But apart from that I’ve enjoyed every opportunity to go out and enjoy the warmth – spring officially started here yesterday but people (read: the Finns) are already sunbathing and swimming at the beach

I bought two pairs of shoes recently: indoor shoes and trainers, and these are obviously the indoor shoes :p I always used my penguin slippers in Finland, but they didn’t fit in my travel bag so one of the first things to do here was to buy something to wear inside the house. In Finland the houses’ floors are usually made of wood so it’s warm and nice to walk barefoot even in the winter, but here the floor is basically always made of stone so my poor feet would freeze to death if I ever tried walking without proper shoes here. This pair of sheep slippers was the cutest I found, and even the shop staff started laughing at my choice… :p

Around my neighbourhood The sun seems to be the symbol of Fuengirola, or at least I can see it everywhere…

This is the 2nd pair of shoes that I bought! I needed a whole new sport outfit because the one that I used in Finland wasn’t suitable for training in such hot weather :p Too bad that I needed 4 separate trips to the Nike store to get the outfit… Here’s the whole story:
1. Oh, I want to go shopping! Oh, they have a Nike store here!!! Cool, but I already have shoes for jogging..
2. My old jogging shoes started to make strange noise —> let’s go to the Nike store to buy new ones!!
3. Now I have new shoes, but I can’t jog in jeans!! I need some sport pants to wear…
4. Now I have the shoes and the pants, but the pants don’t have any pockets!!! Where could I put my apartment keys when I go??? Need to buy a jacket as well!!!
I can be such an idiot sometimes… :p I hope you guys read this carefully and learn to make better plans than I do

Thanks to this prepaid system that I must use now, my internet is still slow and expensive!! It was REALLY REALLY REALLY slow on my laptop before, but I found a special spot in my house in which the connection is good in the morning and satisfactory  even in the evening… Yaaaay!!!!

Anyway, I wish you all a nice day & best wishes for the Semana Santa!! I hope to be able to write another post here soon, so stay tuned!

My Apartment in Spain

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expat, Spain

Hey all!!
I promised to show some pics of my apartment to my friends and family, and it would be really expensive to send all the pics to all those people because of the internet connection here (I don’t even want to know how big my internet bill will be…)  so I’ll put them here instead! The beach pic was taken yesterday when it was sunny and warm… Luckily today is a rainy day so I must stay at home ( I still don’t have an umbrella ) and focus on studying! I mean, focus on blogging…

So… This is a part of my living room! There are two sofas, a dining table and a smaller table, freezer and a cupboard. And a TV of course!! I never had a TV before and rarely watched any shows in Finland, but here I already started following two shows, and the news of course :p At least watching Spanish TV is good for my language skills, because most shows here are in Spanish and don’t have subtitles

My bathroom! In Finnish houses there’s usually a shower, so a bathtub was a nice surprise!! I also have another bathroom with a shower here, but I don’t use it because this one is so much nicer

This is my small balcony! There’s a busy road right next to my house so it’s nice to sit there in the sun and watch the people walk past. Too bad that the sun shines to my balcony only around midday and a bit later, so when I start school again I can’t sit in the sun during the days anymore!

Hahahahahaha, guess what this is… The only way to make my house warmer!!!! The temperature is about 15C all the time, and I don’t even bother to turn this on because it won’t help at all :p In Finland we usually keep the houses really warm, at least 20C but can be even 25C or more (at least my room is always like that ) so living in such cold house means that I must wear looooots of clothes all the time… It was a good idea to bring my winter jacket here, I’m wearing it now as well!! :p

My simple bedroom! There’s another TV but I didn’t even try it yet… There’s also another bedroom in the house but I don’t use it so I didn’t bother to take a pic of it:p And yes, this house is huge… But it was the last one available because I decided to rent it so late. And it’s not expensive at all, if compared to what I would have paid for an apartment like this in Finland! If somebody is curious about apartment prices in Helsinki, here’s a good guideline… 500€/month/person… Waaaaay too expensive! :p

This is the table for schoolbooks… Biology, chemistry, Portuguese and Spanish at the moment! I also have some stuff on my dining table, but I didn’t take a pic because the table’s so messy :p

My huge wardrobe!!!! I LOVE IT!!!! Too bad that it’s almost empty at the moment… Must do some shopping!!!! There are some Spanish clothing brands that I like a looooot so shopping here is just awesome

Kitchen details… I didn’t take a pic of the kitchen because it’s small and not especially pretty :p But it’s fine anyway, the only thing that’s missing from there is a microwave!!! I always cook too much and put the rest of the food to the fridge so a microwave would be useful….

Another pic of my bathroom! The bathtub is on the left side behind the door. This bathroom is one of my favourite things about the house because the colours are nice and the bathtub is nice and all… AND!!! I found pink toilet paper!!!!! How awesome is that? I never saw pink toilet paper before…

Another nice thing about my apartment is the inner yard… The yard itself isn’t especially beautiful, but the view when you look up!!! Sooooooo nice!

This apartment is good in general, the location is almost as good as it can be and the neighbours are extremely quiet so I like living here! Too bad that I’ll have to move to another apartment after 3 months… But maybe I’ll find a smaller apartment around the same area!!

Anyway, I guess this was enough for now! I’ll go to an internet café tomorrow to reply to all the comments and see the blogs of some of my favourite bloggers so see you guys & girls soon! Now I’ll continue reading El País and hope that the rain would stop soon so that I could go and take a walk outside…

¡Hola España!

Hey all!! Just wanted to let you guys & girls know that I’m in Spain now! My internet connection isn’t the best possible, and using the internet costs a LOT (compared to what it costs in Finland… In Finland you pay for internet once a month and can use as much as you want to , but here you pay for the data that you want to send or receive!! :O) so I can’t upload large photos here for a while. I’ll keep posting anyway, so stay tuned!

Beauty products: January & February

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beauty, cosmetics, hair

Hey all! How’s your weekend been so far? I decided to make a little post about beauty products that I bought lately because I’ve got some especially good ones in the past few months

1. Born To Bio Organic 100% Argan Oil
I found this product at an organic shop and it was on special offer so I decided to give it a try. It’s meant for dry skin but you can also use it for dry hair ends. The only downside to this product is its texture: it feels a bit too oily even if my skin is really dry. I usually use this to make an overnight treatment for my hair but you can also apply a small amount of it to your hair ends after taking a shower (don’t put it to the roots or your hair will look oily)

2. Tangle Teezer Salon Elite hairbrush
THIS ONE IS AWESOME!!! I heard sooooo many people talking about it so I had to buy one for myself as well (it’s funny how a smaller Tangle Teezer is more expensive than the bigger one…). My hair is and thin and gets knotty really easily so this is a perfect hairbrush for me Too bad the store didn’t have any pink ones available…

3. Laneige Sun Block Triple Sunscreen
This was a gift from my Korean friend’s mom, and she totally chose the right product for me because I use sunscreen basically all the time. Laneige is a Korean brand that’s owned by the same corporation as Innisfree and Etude House, for example. I usually use SPF 40 on my face and areas that are exposed to the sun on normal days, and SPF 60+ when I stay outside for longer than 30 min. I hope this product will prevent my skin from burning in Spain…

4. KLORANE Leave-In Fluid With Mango Butter
MY FAVOURITE HAIR PRODUCT EVER!!!♥ I bought it in Istanbul and forgot about it until recently when I found it and tried it on my hair… And fell in love with it! The only bad thing about this product is that it’s not sold in Finland!! I found other Klorane products in drugstores but this leave-in fluid is not sold in here so I had to order mine from Bulgaria… And I used about 1/2 of it already

5. Bio-Oil
This is for skin only unlike argan oil that’s meant for hair as well. It’s actually a bunch of vitamins and other stuff (:D) in oil form, and the texture is light so doesn’t leave your skin greasy. The oil is meant to fade out scars and marks in your skin, but I heard that it’s good for dry skin so I decided to give it a try. It’s quite inexpensive, but if you use it for your body this small bottle won’t last for long – my bottle looks like this after I’ve been using the oil for less than two weeks…

6. Aussie Miracle Moist Mini Shampoo
Aussie products seem to suit my hair type, so I bought this mini shampoo to use it in Spain. It contains macadamia nut, what a waste… I’d prefer a normal shampoo AND some macadamia nuts to eat

7. Schwarzkopf Professional – BC  Bonaure – Soft Ends Fluid
This product’s name is waaaay too long…  Anyway, I bought this product without further consideration because I just needed a product to protect my hair with in Spain. I don’t own any sun hat yet (I dropped my favourite one in the sea ) and I’m not likely to find a hat other than winter hat in Finland now, so the only option was to buy this one or a similar product. Later on I found out that this product contains silicone, so I might switch it into a better one when I have time to.

8. Aussie 3 minute Deep Conditioner (mini size)
Another mini product to use for the first days in Spain. I like Aussie products in general, and this one is for dry and damaged hair so it should be just perfect for me

(Just a random pic, say hello to my school books… That’s not even all of them, baybe 1/2 or something!! I hope my bookshelf won’t collapse from their weight )

I’m going to have a movie night with my friend now, so I’d better stop writing and tidy my room instead… ++ Going to reply to comments and e-mails tomorrow! Will be a really nerdy Sunday because I need to do a looooot of stuff on my laptop & prepare my Acer laptop because I’ll give it to my dad & install a webcam and Skype to my parents’ computer… And Monday is my birthday and Tuesday is the day when I’ll move to Spain!!! Time flies!!! :O

Wish you guys & girls a nice Saturday evening! Or morning or Sunday or whatever