Home Sweet Home

I thought it would never happen: after running all over the city meeting people and filling in forms (God above I hate paperwork!), they gave me a big jangly bunch of keys! Yay! And so I moved in to my apartment (address on asking :P ). It's a little bare at the moment. I have a fridge, a cooker, and... well that's it. After all was sorted I went climbing with Joonas and Markus, and sent (read: made light work of) a Finnish 5+ grade route, which is nothing to the lads but was a big achievement for me! I was just sitting there (here's the view - note, that blue thing at the bottom is my bed at the minute!)

feeling really good about myself when Markus's head popped up. He climbed the whole damn thing solo (without a rope) which took the sheen off a little :)

After climbing we picked Alex up in town and headed to my new abode where we had a candle-lit house warming... because I have no lights. It's not that I have no bulbs mind, and I don't by the way, it's just that I also have no fixtures. I have wires, and a hook. Here, take a look:

Anyway it was really nice, and very atmospheric. I wish I'd run outside to see what all those candles lined up on a 6th floor windowsill looked like :)

Which reminds me - a shop assistant refused to sell my a cigarette lighter with the candles without a passport. Now, either it's illegal to purchase cigarette lighters withough ID at all over here, or she thought I looked under the legal smoking age - which is 18!! So instead she sold me matches... crazy country!

So that's where I am at the minute. I'm off to get a bed asap, and some lights, and the rest I'll accumulate over time I guess.