Kitee

Last weekend I have been in Kitee, North-Karelia. It´s a litte village, 80 kilometres from Joensuu away.

Kitee is not a small village, it´s quite big, especially the surrounding. But there are living not many people, probably just 10.000.

But it´s a very beautiful village, quiet and pieceful. And I must say that the nature in and around Kitee is amazing! Of course we have that kind of nature in my town too, also very beautiful, but I was faszinated of the piece in that area. You can enjoy the nature there much more in my opinion. :)

I arrived at Friday quite late in the night, it was maybe already midnight. On Saturday, my friend picked me up and we made a day-trip by car in and around Kitee and we drove until Tohmajärvi.In the evening I decided to go to Silent Train´s    concert in Karhu Ravintola. Marko Kämäräinen played there and I went there at 9 o´clock in the evening. At 10 my friend decided to join me and she came there too.

We have waited and waited and usually the gig should have started at 10, but then they have started to play at midnight! :D

But anyway, it was a nice gig, a nice evening and night. Although if I had problems in the morning to find the busstation...

It was terrible! I went to ask for a taxi. and I called some taxi offices but no one went on the phone... So there was no taxi to reach. I asked people, where the busstation is and one said: 2 kilometres in that direction.

I went with my luggage in that direction.

We had -10 degrees, it was windy and stormy... perfect weather for a kind of morning walk in Kitee. ;)

I met another person, who I decided to ask too, just to get sure that I walk in the right direction.

This person said: No, 2 kilometres in the other direction.

I was really down! It was probably 30 minutes before my bus would depart at the busstation and even didn´t know where to go at that time!

I walked and walked and walked... then I have seen a taxi and stopped it, but as I have told them my problem, they just drove away. Thanks! :O

After a time, I went back to the ABC supermarket, which is opened 24-hours every day and luckily I have met a nice person, who helped me and drove me to the busstation. :) Thank YOU! Otherwise I would have had a big problem, because this bus was the only one on that day to Joensuu. And I needed to reach that bus to reach my connecting bus to my town.

But luckily everything went well... :)

White Night Fantasy :)

As I´ve promised, here some photos of the beginning of the winter in Finland.

These photos are probably already two weeks old, but actually I have a problem with my laptop, so that I can´t put the photos from the camera on the laptop. :( But I´ll see what I can do and maybe I´ll ask for some help to solve that problem.

But soon, I´ll upload actual photos here.

Today we had already -4 degrees in the morning and then in the afternoon we had -10,5 degrees! It´s so cold outside now... you really have to wear a lot and you have to use creme for your face, that your skin won´t become too try that it tears off.

On those photos, also the trees aren´t completely white, but since a few days, you don´t see anything anymore exept snow. :) It´s really beautiful! But I would like that we´ll have a day like this second photo shows, because I really love when the sun is shining, although it´s snowing and it´s cold.

But let´s see if we get a day like that in the next time again, because on sunday, yesterday and today we hadn´t a "real sunny day". The sun was maybe shining for one hour really beautiful, but then it was getting cloudy again. :(

Against that, saturday was an absolutely beautiful day! Everywhere it has been white, but the sun was shining. I´ve spent the weekend in a little village in Eastern Finland and as I´ve mentioned already, there has been such a beautiful weather! It was perfect to go out, go for a walk and make a trip by car. I´ll upload some photos of the weekend tomorrow, and will

write also something about my weekend there.

I´m really excited how the weather is going to be tomorrow and how cold it´ll be tomorrow...

But that is just the beginning of a looooong winter in Finland. :P

Actually I haven´t got a problem that it´s getting dark so early. In the morning it´s dark until 9.00 or 9.30 and it´s getting dark between 15.00 and 15.30 in the afternoon. The most important thing is not just to sit at home and being tired... then it really could be that you´ll get depressive some day in winter. I have two times language course a week and I often meet friends for a coffee or walk just for fun in the town.

During the next days, I´ll try to buy some more christmas presents for my family, which I´ll visit in two weeks, and then some christmas accessoires for my room here. :)

Have you already made christmas decoration?