Busy Berlin

Hi you! :)
Time has been flying and it's getting quite busy at work which has been a nice change compared to how it was at the office when i first started.
I haven't been that good recently when it comes to keeping this blog up to date.. I mean now that it's beginning to feel like spring/summer again i have just been going to places and exploring the surroundings of the close by neighbouroods.
Anyways, a couple of things have happend since i last wrote. 1. My mom came over 2. I went to a meet up and made some new friends which was very much needed 3. I went to Hamburg 4. My friend from one of the the hostfamilies i have lived with came over to see me after not seeing her for the last 4 years aand numero cinco i went to Finland for a holiday. So yeah there has been something interesting happening pretty much at least a couple of times a week and it has kept me busy.

My mom came over at the start of this month with her friend and they stayed for like a long weekend. It was nice to have them here and show them around but because my mom is a typical caring mother who likes to fuss (a lot), it was sometimes a bit nerve-racking especially after gaining a lot of independence and so called "own space" now that i have been here for some months now.

Secondly i would like to recommend an app called Meet Up to anyone who's planning on moving abroad by themselves for a while because being alone can sometimes be pretty boring. And even if you are not planning on moving, it's just a really nice and cool way to meet new people no matter where you are in the world. I first heard about the Meet Up app only six months ago when we were in London with our class mates. During one of the company visits that we did, we were able to ask the workers a ton of questions and someone asked them about how they first started meeting new people and making friends after moving to a different country where no one really knows you. One of them recommended Meet Up and i can see why. I went to my first meet up a couple of weeks ago on a sunday. And first i was really hesitant and didn't want to go because the whole idea just seemed a bit funny to me. But then i luckily managed to motivate myself and i had a lot of fun. I think it was all in all around 16 girls who came (this meet up was for girls only) to the coffee shop so you can pretty much just imagine what it was like trying to communicate with all of them at the same when the others are doing the exact same thing. It was looooouud. But it was super nice and everyone got on very well and after chatting to each other for around 3-4 hours we decided to create a Whatsapp group and now we all have been keeping in touch and doing some things together like going to listen to some live music, bars and so on :)

Then on one friday my co-workers and i took the train to Hamburg and we spent pretty much the whole day there viewing some hotels. It was a really nice change to the usual office work, plus we were really lucky with the weather. We also managed to have a bit of time off, during which we for example took the ferry to Haven City and we went to see and experience the Elbphilharmonie concert hall. Inside of the building we had a really nice lunch and we also got to see some nice views from the rooftops. Hamburg was soo pretty and seeing the Elb river made me kind of miss Helsinki because i'm so used to seeing the sea almost like everyday. Here in Berlin i feel like the only water-like thing i have seen during my time being here are just the bottles of water i have had and the random puddles on the streets. Anyway, anyhow it was a really long day. We left from the Berlin Hauptbahnhof at 07:40 in the morning and we arrived back around 20:30.

When i got back to the Berlin Hauptbahnhof i had to wait for around 30-45 minutes for my friend to arrive. She had been travelling for the past 5-6 hours all the way from Dillenburg to see me. The last time i saw her was in 2013 i think so it was really nice to finally be reunited with her. It was her first time in Berlin so i pretty much took her to every possible sight there is to see in the city. We had a lot of fun together so i felt a bit sad when she had to leave on sunday, the two days went past way too quickly.

And well yeah last week i had my one week holiday which i used by going back home for a week. I didn't really feel the need to go back home for that time as if i had been homesick or something, but i had some things that needed to be sorted out which couldn't be handled all the way from Germany so that's why i went. On the friday that i left i got to have a day off as well so during the day i went to the close by canal to get some tan because it was like 22 degrees. And on the same friday morning sent me a picture of how much it had snowed in Helsinki on the previous night ( the main reason why i considered leaving my plane ticket unused). My mom had no idea that i would be coming home so it kind of worked as a suprise for her as well. When i got to the airport in Helsinki it felt so weird to be back and to see my friend who came to pick me up. It was also fucking freezing not gonna lie. Soo i kind of wanted to go back to Berlin straight away but oh well.. Anyways, i had a fun weekend with my friends and i got to sort out the things that needed to be sorted out but then on tuesday i got really ill and i basically had to lay in my bed untill it was time for me to go back to Berlin. Lucky me...  and it still hasn't gotten any better.
Aaaand that's about it i think or at least i feel like i have been rambling on this post for way too long.
I hope i will manage to keep on posting more regularly so that i don't have to write there bibble long blogposts ever again..

Byeee
- Krista x