Positivity: 10
Pain of departure: 10
Of course... it doesn't mean that you are necessary an expressive person emotionally... (my biggest drawback)
5 hours after Dominik's last messege, I felt the first pang. I could practically see him get out of the airport and embrace his girlfriend in Lyon. Somehow my head played its own tunes for awhile.
Positivity: 10
Pain of departure: 10
I left for Johanna's. I promised to help her with cooking that day, and it will be the best party ever (turned out to be so as well). Didn't have time to dress up or anything so I just ran out with my summer travel and everything running in my head at the same time. Read on the bus, as always, as an attempt to calm myself down. As I walked to her place at Domus, I passed by a strawberry vender. Thinking that it would be the best thing to have at a party, and remembering something about Johanna loving strawberries (and fruit in general) I bought 2 kilo of this delicious fruit that I don't eat. As an another attempt to see if Finnish strawberry would make any difference in my unusual detest towards this particular fruit, I took one bit... and spend the rest of the walk toward Domus with a scrunched up face and a grand desire to go back in time and take the strawberry out. I DON'T LIKE STRAWBERRIES!!! (don't know when that happened.... but it just happened one day all of a sudden... ><) So I carried 2 kilo of sth I don't eat, bought 2 cake and an apple to appease the pain and a Geisha Ice cream cone to make myself fatter and happier, I landed at Johanna's at around 6 in the afternoon.
Positivity: 9 (strawberry knocked one down)
Pain of departure: 5 (I can't think about that anymore)
Johanna opened the door with the regular large smile. I must say, she's the most beautiful person I've met in Helsinki. In a way, she glows. We walked into her room loaded with goodies, and immediately fell to toasting bread and making sandwiches. This is for something like 12 people that evening, that means a lot of sandwhiches. First we did a tomatoe-mozzerella toast with a special cheese dressing Johanna made (absolutely delicious) and after several attempts to stack them nicely together, we started on the tuna-fish sandwiches, which turned out even more delicious. Then we made crackers with cheese, pear and grapes on them. It was deliciously fun, the cooking and the making. The grapes seriously looked like little worms. Joonas appeared almost at 8 sharp, as prescribed on Johanna's invitation. I was too busy with the decoration to pay attention anything, much less help Johanna entertain the guest (okay, I was as nervous as hell cuz if one showed up, that means the rest will be there soon, and I was only half way through the crackers!). As predicted, in about 30 minutes people started to pop up like bean spruts... So we hurriedly stashed everything in the frige and waited to see people enter the room. Kalle, Kirki, Eeva and her Dutch friends, Reima, Frank, Raimi (?), Tuuka, Julius and girlfriend, Silja and Aurelien.
"I know it's a bit insane, but we stacked it anyway!"
Postivity: 10 (With all these lovely people, how can it not be 10?)
Pain of departure: 0 (Too excited)
Shyness: 10 (Huhuhu... @>.<@)
It was an all-nighter. And a very major one. At first I was actually quite lost at what is going on, so the only thing I knew to do was to take care of everyone's basic needs aka food. Then I started to take pictures of everything, the food, the people, the talking and everything that I can see with my eyes (not necessarily with my Camera). The atmosphere was so beautiful, it glittered with little diamonds flying everywhere. Me and Johanna kept eyeing each other as we noted the separation between the Finns and the Dutch (Finns speaking Finnish, Dutch speaking Dutch) which puts the Hostess and the Hostess's little hand at lost (German and Taiwanese), okay, we have to do something about the situation. We planned to cut in between the Finns, but never quite got to it because very soon the rest of the people (the REIMA, the FRANK, and the KID!) all melted into the room with a swish. I sat down feeling quite relieved and left my attention to weird descriptions of the food.
It was a rather interesting situation, actually, I was the only Asian / Non-European within the room. The KID Rami seemed a bit surprised (the rest of the people already knew me) and I laughed a little inside at the expression he had when we were introduced. The rest of the night, until we left the room, the KID had been eyeing me with curiosity (hehe) until we stroke a conversation about the States. Adorable kid, missing the States just as much as I was. It's amazing how the US can do it, influence people so much that even if they are only there for so short a time as 1 year they can become so Americanized.
Reima heated the party up immediately with his fast and "dirty?" conversations (running most of it in Finnish, which kept making me ask for translations). Joonas was kind enough to explain everything to me for most of the night and since I am constantly out of the situation, it was even nicer of him to keep in somewhat in the situation. Whenever I am around a room like this I can really feel my introvertness as I sort of just shell myself together until someone speaks to me. As long as someone talks to me, I can carry on the conversation nicely, or the best to my ability, and as soon as people shut up around me, I feel a bit lost. >< For the night, Joonas kept the conversation going nicely and I felt quite comfortable and at ease even with my deathly headache. He seems like a very big brother kind of a person and quite very interesting. Like someone who really considers before he acts, thinks before he talks and is truely as calm as water. I get very curious with people like this, and I keep wondering what secrets they hold, what's behind the calmness, what's inside? This is the kind of a person that makes me genuinely want to know more about, like a very interesting book. It's fascinating! Listening to him talk is fascinating, especially the coolness with which he projects his opinions, so gentle that you don't find a way to pick up a fight or even barely a debate with him.
Positivity: 10 (DUH)
To be continued...
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