Lokakuu

Wow. Already October. Yes, 'lokakuu' means October.

When I learned this word, I remembered the loka part of the kuu, which means crazy in I think Spanish and maybe several other languages (of course with another spelling). However, my donkey bridge (sorry, bad Dutch joke) for this word was because October is the month before the 'crazy'': November. Actually, at this moment I am writing it's 00.00, first of November. And today was the day that the time changed. The darkness will come even more earlier from now on, lucky us :) 

Now I will tell you a funny story..
Last week i was at the airport. My mom came to visit me in Finland (!!)
At thursday we had to say goodbye to each other, so I joined her to Jyväskylä airport. I booked at taxi for us, so that we could take our time. It turned out, we didn't even had another option than the taxi. Because I wondered how to get back from the airport to the center of Jyväskylä, I asked the friendly women at the front desk. They friendly replied there are no busses back, the only option is to take the taxi. I friendly, though little astonished and confused asked her 'why?'. I mean, in the Netherlands everything would be planned out and be taken care of. I thought the same of Finland, but apparently not necessary. Which I like, because you have to get creative and then cool things can happen. Such as, 'the woman of the desk went talking with the chef cook of the restaurant, who had connections with a person who would take the interns of the restaurant of the airport back to their university, so that I could wait for one hour, exact at the time my mother would leave and I could take a ride back to the university, to walk with one of the interns of the restaurant to the center together and from there cycle/walk/bus back to my home.' Do you understand? So there I was. In the car with random strangers. It was a small bus actually. You know, those white ones, very suitable for horror movies where people being kidnapped. But of course it didn't felt like that at all. Those people were so kind to me. The Finnish man next to me asked me all these questions about my experiences with Finland. And the funny part, is when I talked about how much I love the fact that the snow was already there in October and how excited I got about it. He looked at me with a straight face and asked me 'what snow'. I hope that I will get the change in my stay to experience and really understand 'what snow' he was talking about!
Yes, so we arrived at the university of those interns and I walked with this Finnish student for 30 minutes to the center. She was so friendly again. 
I only got very very good experiences with Finnish people. So helpful and friendly! 

So, what else..
In Lokakuu, I also made two trips. One to Tampere with Rachie/Rach/Deniz as her birthday present and one trip to Turku with NatHalie. I enjoyed both trips so much!! Those trips are way to much information to tell you about right now, but I can tell you, they felt more than happy days! 
Oh yeah and it was my first time experience couchsurfing and I loved it. For the people who don't know: it's a site where you can offer and accept a place to sleep and if you like hang out with your host during daytime. It's a great way to meet local people and so the local culture. Many people on couchsurfing got this same level of thinking, that we got so much possibilities in this time to connect with each other and to see the world. I am aware of that and am gratefull for that. Next week I will couchsurf on my own. I will go to Turku and then to A(cannot make the circle above the A)land Islands, it's between Sweden and Finland. Hey Babu, if you read this! (Babu is the couchsurfer host for my trip, who will take me to the A(with circle)land Islands.

So, till so far a little piece of lokakuu. Finland. Is. Amazing. 

Here a little message for my mum and the people she have met:
I am so glad my mum could meet my friends and my Finnish family here and the other way around. Everyday I am letting my mum know how much I enjoy my life in Finland and I make her kind of scared about me loving Finland (too) much. But I think she (true mum?) can understand after her trip at least at an certain level why I feel so fond about Finland! Which doesn't mean I don't miss my friends and family back in the Netherlands of course! 

A lots of love (and Bangladeshi warmth, sorry inside joke),

Nähdään

Febe (photo's will come later, got some storage issues, yaay)