I have change my life again because yesterday I heard that I got the new job att Abb Oy. I will start on 11th June so it's quite soon. My duties will be purchase ledger so the work is not what I am looking for but the company will be so big so there will be a lot of possibilities to find something else too and I will do that. I will try to work really hard on getting more of the duties what might fits me better and less of the ledger duties and maybe after few months I will be working with HR things or import/export duties or some kind of educaters duties. This job will last only 9 months but I think it's quite long time in a big company after all and in 9 months what ever can happen. The boss said that the job will last longer but now first they will see how I work and how good I am, after that they will do new decisions about lenght of my work there.

I am very nervous about this because I loved to be a Real Estate Broker but I know that this job will end for sure after two months so I need the new job and now I got inside to a bigger company so that's good but I am very nervous about the new work duties because I know I will feel bad of them because they do not fit me at all and I am not good in ledger duties and my last boss said to me that I am terrible in ledger duties and he started to bully on me. Thats why he had so many problems with everything and in the end I left the workplace because I started to feel so horrible inside me that I couldn't really go to work anymore. I was so happy when that job ended and I got this one and now I go back to these ledger duties again but okay it's different company and this coming boss is hopefully nicer and I will shine with everything and I will be so good that they will never want to get rid of meD.

Now I have to work little again

Love Anneli

Good morning. I am at work today so I will write something short. Everything is okay here with me and my family. Last night we had thunderstorm and heavy rain. It was little difficult to sleep because I have always been little frightened of thunderstorms and I don't know why I am that maybe I have learned it from my mother who have always been frightened too. When I was a child my mother usually came from work to pick me up when the thunderstorm started and then we together went to her workplace. She worked at the hospital on psychiatry side so I spend quite a lot time there playing with the patients when I was younger.

We will have little cooler day today. They said on weather report that we will only have 14 C degrees. It feels little weird to have this cold weather but I am quite ok with it after all . We might have rainy weather today the whole day too so I hope someone from my work will drive me to my apartment show on afternoon otherwise I might get wet. My boss told me that I will get a company car for these two months what I have left here. My hubby is already planing for our next car and he notice that in Kuopio (about 500 km from Vaasa) they have a nice Skoda Octavia what is quite cheap but looks ok. The car is quite old, from 1998 and the last owner have drive with it quite a lot so that's not good but we might get it cheap so that's ok. Tomorrow we know if we will get the car loan from the bank.

Okay, now I have to start to work

Love Anneli

I am sitting here at classroom again. We are in Kokkola (120 km from Vaasa) and when we drove here I was thinging about Finland and the sea. It's quite interesting how close the main street goes the sea. I could see it almost the whole way and this town advertises it self as a town witch have grown from the sea. It sounds little funny for me because the whole coastline have grown from the sea. The coast is quite long from Helsinki to Tornio and it's about 1000 km, Vaasa is there somewhere between these places.

Finland have also 1000 lakes so we have a lof of beutiful places where you can see the water. Now when the summer comes the whole Finland look so beautiful with all kind of shades of green color (from grass, trees, bushes...) and all kind of shades of blue (the lakes/sea and heaven) too and of couse all the colors from the flowers and vegetables. I think that now is the best time to come to Finland (not that warm yet but nice and everything is in bloom) and not on winter time when there is only two different kind of color white and grey because even the water is white and all the trees are white. Okay then it's beautiful when the sun shines and the first snow comes but when we have middle of the winter we have snow over 2 metre and there is nothting else than white and the weather is very cool and windy (the wind is the wicked one). The autumn is very beautiful time too because then we have so many different color when the trees and bushes are yellow, orange, red, brown, green and grey but the weater is usually very rainy and windy so that's not so nice but other a very good time to come to Finland.

On yesterday evening I heard that I didn't get the job where I was on interview so I am little sad about it but okay the job would not have been so interesting because I don't like to take care of invoicing and accounting. I think it's very boring but I respect the person who likes to work with these things. I am so social person so it means that I need the customer service duties everyday to feel good. I would love to be a educationist or some kind of consultant. Now I only have to ty to get a workplace where these dueties will be availableD, I think the most difficult ones is to get a workplace where you want to get. I usually fall into somewhere and then I am there and wondering what happened. I have tried many different kinds of duties and I don't yet can say where I will end up working for a long time.

Okay now I'll go and eat lunch.

Love Anneli

I just heard from my hubby that I got inside to University so now I can get my diploma after few years (I have already made 88 studyweeks and I need 160 studyweeks to my diploma). I have now done a lot of courses at the open university here in Vaasa and this spring when I notice that I might have done enough courses to get inside to the university I applied few months ago and now I heard that YES I got inside today and I start on SeptemberD. I am so happy, now I am closer to one of my goals and it's to get a university diploma (althougt I am not in my twnties anymore). That will be in spring 2009. I will still work like now (if I get the new job before August) and study at evenings and weekends.

This course I am at now on is quite boring . I try to not fall in sleep but writening and doing everything else helps little. I am glad that my phone is ringing quite much (customers) and I try to answer very quet so that I am not disturbing the teacher and other who sit here at this classroom . It's quite fun to notice that it's only my phone what is ringing all the time and I speak here finnish, swedish and english every 30 min. I notice that even my workmates wonders how fast I cange the language.

Okay now I have to stop writening because my boss start to be little curious of what I am doing . Well he knows that I am bored.

Love Anneli

It's already middle of the day here in Finland and I am in Kokkola today. It's about 120 km from my home town Vaasa. I am on a course from my work. It's quite interesting because I am only working here for two months and they still try to learn me new things but it's because we get a new computer program where we will put all the objects what we sell and rent so that's why

Last night when I had little difficult to sleep (I took a two hours nap on the middle of the day on Sunday so it might be that one what made me lively last night...) I started to think of my ife and where I want to go with my life. I think it was because I started to read a book of How to Become Amaizing. I think it's quite hard to make goals of what we want to do in life or where we want to see us self in few years. There might even be quite much of things what we want to achieve but they seams to be quite hard or far away. I think it's good to have goals to work to but it might be good to take few goals and make them true before we work to harder once little by little.

I have quite many goals to achieve but they are not that far away only few of them are that but all my goals seams to be realy hard to achieve like loose weight and be more healthyD. I think the most difficult goal for me is to be a writer and make a own book of something. I also want to have a workplace where I enjoy to be, can be a for a very long time and what will give me a lot back too.

In the book there was that we should work forward to our goal in small steps and now I started with few of my goals like writening the book and make new CV. Next week I shall even try to work with the weight thing too so hopefully soon I can write in this blog that I have achieve few of my goalsD

Love Anneli

I was just wondering how much people actually know about Finland and of finnish people. Of course they who have been to this country knows more but there is a lot of finnish stuff what is quite common in other countries too and maybe some people don't even know that they actually are originating from Finland.

I hope I can with my blogs teach something of Finland to people all around the world. I hope I will give a good picture of Finland too. Okay something I might have some weird describe of my lovely country and people who are living hereD.

Okay what is from Finland then, maybe you have heard of Nokia, Iittala, Marimekko, Fazer, Finnair, Jalas, Wärtsilä, Fiskars and of course Santa Claus, he's from Finland, living in Rovaniemi. Then there are a lot of singers and bands like Lordi, Him and Hanoi Rocks. I think the famoust people is Renny Harlin. Moomin is from Finland too and quite famous in many countries. There is also Sauna and Koskenkorva-vodka. Okay what else, I can't remember now but there is many and I will write about them in my blog when I remember something new .

This was little about Finland. You guys who is reading my blog can always ask me things and I try to tell more and more of Finland each time.

Love Anneli

Here in Vaasa we have a lovely sunny day today and the temperature shown 20 C degrees so that's fun. I need to go outside today and feel the sun. We will even grill some vegetables, soyasausages for me and real sausages for my dear hybby (who oly eats meat, typical finnish manD).

It's was very interesting last night when I woke up middle of the night because the sun was still shining and it felt like the middle of the day . I was quite suprised because I know that we still have few hour dark at the night and from 20 june we have sunlight for the 24 hours day in day out for a two months. No wonder that finnish people sleep so little on summer time and quite a lot on winter time when we have insted dark 24 hours day in day out for quite many monhts. It's quite fun to see how much the nature is changing here in Finland on the whole year.

Few days ago I put some photos of Vaasa and of my house and of my lovely pets on my profile so if you want to go and check up them you are welcome.

We have few beautiful white butterflys on our yarden and the finnish people say that if you see one it's good luck so I hope this one what I saw today will come with a lot of good luck for us because we need that oneD. We also have a male pheasant and three female pheasant on our yarden too and they a making a lot of noice but they are very lovely and I love them. I try to be very quet so I am not distracting them.

Okay now I need to clean hour house like I do every sunday morning, it's not fun but it's easier that way because then I don't need to clean so thorough. I am little lazy with cleaning because I don't like it but it something what everyone have to do after all so...

Love Anneli

We have nice but rainy weather today here in Vaasa. It's after all quite wamt so that's nice and I think this weather fits me better today.

I was at university today and made two different test. The other I think went okay and I know I read little better to it too so... but the other I won't pass so I know I can start to read to secon test possibility right away so happyfully I will pass that test (economy law) then. Now I have more time to read to that test so that's great .

Here in Finland the summer is on it's way and everything start to be in bloom and the grass is growing fast. Here in Vaasa we had a spring sales activity at the marker place. It was so fun to go aroung the selling place and see what different sellers was offering. There was a lot of food, clothes, toys, ornaments and candy. I bought only tomatoes, bred and cucumbersD.

The job interview went okay yesterday and I heard that they actually have to different works available so they asked witch one I am interesting more in and I say both because actually I am not that interesting none of them but HEY it would be a permanent job at a big company so I am interesting in everything what they would give me so that I will get my foot inside the company and after a while I might start to look around if there would be something else what might fit me better so I do hope I'll get one of jobs now. The ladys who interviwed me was okay and they seemed to be nice so I hope I made a good impression on themD.

I was today to my parents house too and I played with my cats. It was so fun. I tried to read to my test there with Kissen and Siina on my lap angry on eatch other because both wanted to get my whole attention so it was quite difficult to readD. Jasmin was outside there whole time I didn't realy see her . My hubby is allergic to my cats so that's why they now live at my parents house, only my fish I have here at our home. My fish are doing okay and eating a lot and of course growing fast. my tank is soon too small for them and I need to buy a bigger one, maybe I am feeding them too much but they are so hungry all the time. I try to feed them only once in the whole day so it can't be too much after all but I am little wondering how fast actually can fish growD.

Now on evening I will only relax, watch tv, read and eat something good. I might even open a wine bottle and forget everything what have happened this weekD.

Love Anneli

Hi,

When I woke up this morning I heard how birds was singing like in competition. It was so beautiful but irritation when you wanted still to sleep few hours before you have to wake up and go to the work.

This day looks to be very warm and sunny here in Vaasa. It's actually quite good because I need to walk to evvery where today like I did yesterday. I must say that it's something new that the Real Estate Broker walks to the customer and to the apartment shownD. Everything is okay with me but I am still very sad about my car because it was my first real good car and I love it so much and I was proud of it. Now I have to buy a old and used car again with won't be so good.

Today might happen something nice too because I have a job interview to a big company here in vaasa and it will be a permanet job so that's wonderful (this job what I have now will end after two month because then will the lady who is on mother leave come back). The duties won't be that great or okay today I know more of them so they might be okay after all but the company is good because it's so big that after a while I could apply something else inside the company and then I will have better possibility to get it. Please hold you finger crossed for me.

Today it's the last day of school fot the kids here in Finland tomorrow they summer vacation will start so I might have quite relaxing day to day at work because many young people who comes to me and ask for apatments will be on graduate party.

I wonder if people in other countries chage they food habits when summer times comes because quite many people here in Finland does that. We eat more fruits and vegetables and the food have to be quick to make so we eat more soups and bread and less of meat and turkey and maybe little more fish too because finnish people have esier to fish when the sea is not ice anymore . Poeple are eating lighter and of couse drinking more of cold bear, cider and white wine than what they are drinking at winter time then it is more of the heavier stuff like alcohol, red wine and liquer.

Okay this was my thoughs today.

Love Anneli

Yeah today was not that good day because when I was driving to one of my apartment shows when one car hit me badly on the right side so now my very beautiful car is not fix to drive anymore. They can't repair it so I am very sad of what happened to my car. I loved this car so much and now it looks very bad. My hubby was realy angry when I came home so that was not nice either but he's cooled down little already . 

I was just to hospital to control that everything is okay. I have little pain in my left side from neck to foot so that's not good but the doctor didn't realy say anything. She gave me neckaid what I need to use for few days. She didn't give me any sick leave days so I will go to work tomorrow but I don't know what to do when I don't have any car to drive with and I do have few apartment shows tomorrow too and on friday. I have to talk with my boss about this .

I feel okay now and I hope I will feel like this but I am soooo sad about my car and everything else because like usually it was my fault this accident. I always end up quilty of everything and some how everything happens always to be...

I called the police to the accident place and he said that it's my fault and now I even end up paying forfeit for the trafick risk too. yeah that was a nice one and now I need to pay the other cars damage too but thankfully it will go from my assurance but my own car won't so now we have to buying a new car for me so tomorrow we need to go to the bank and ask for a car loan.... yeah the life is wonderful .

I let you know how everything goes.... I feel quite okay so do not worry.

Love Anneli

Here in Finland a new day rises again and it turns to be rainy but actually I am quite happy with that. Yesterday we had realy nice and warm weather and I didn't feel that happy about it, sadly actually and I don't know why felt like that. I am little bit more happy with this rainy day now, weird . Maybe it's because last few summers what we had here in Finland have been so dry and warm that now I am ready for a rainier weather and I know that the nature loves that more than the dry summer and last year our grass did burn quite easily so now I hope it will grow and be healthy the whole summer.

Okay that I know that my cats will be very angry on me when I am hopping for a rainy summer because then they don't like to be outside with all the birds and mise . Last year they was outside day and night, came only inside to eat what actually I was very happy about because I don't like the idea that they will catch up the beautiful bird and mouse. I know that Jasmin and Siina would not even eat the bird or mouse because they don't know what to do with the animal when they catch it but Kissen is worse and she knows how to get them too. Kissen is the one who is realy a farmcat, her mother teached her very young (only 3 weeks old) to clim to the barn roof and catch up birds and other animals. She didn't even know how to come down from the roof . Jasmin and Siina was not outside before I got them so they don't actually have the instinct that the nature is calling them to do some things, they are more like snobbish ladys who need to go outside because Kissen is going but otherwise they go be inside and feel loved . They are so wonderful cats and I am so proud of them. They are all really great and different characters. Kissen is roug, Jasmin is boss for the whole family and Siina is a very shy but loving cat.

Now I need to go and feed my fishes before they come out of the tank and try to fing food some where else. I hope you all have a lovely day and this like the other days are good. Now I need to go to work.

Love Anneli

Today have been quite interesting day at my work because I have a house where I try to find a good renters and I never thought that it will be this hard. Okay there is lot of people who is interesting of the house and want to rent it but I have to try to find the very best ones of all the people. There is also few criterion witch I have to operate with. One is there can't be any animals and the second is that no children too, yeah you read right no children. The third one is that the renters need to be good with fixing everything.

Okay and what is the problem you think well the people who have a lot of demans and want to quarrel with me of there criteria what I got from the owner. I have tried be nice with everyone but now I start to be little irritated of answering the emails and phone because everyone want to have this house because the rent is cheap and of course all finnish people want to live in a house rather than in a building and most of the familys with children and animals want to live in a own house so....

Well this is difficult and I wonder if the people alwasy have been these demanding like people are now a days because I have notice that the renters want all kind of different thinks and they think that the landlord does everything for them and they can only say what they need. I remember when I was youngen and lived still on rent I never thought I could be this demanding of on so many things what people are now, I took what I got and fix the apatment to look nice with my own money but now the people is not like that. I wonder if this is comon only here in Finland or if it happens every where that people are more demanding that before like 5-10 years ago. Ok I know that people want to move in a nice apartment but after all it's only a rented apartment and the owners can't do everything. Even the renters need to give something to the apartment and not only take like I feel they do now .

Well okay I am little irritated today about my work but I forget this already tomorrow because this a very nice job after all and I meet so many wonderful people who I do want to help and find good renters to a beautiful apartments. I need to think what renters need and I need to think what the apartments owner needs so sometimes it's little hard to find a matchmake whit all this but when it happens it's a great thing after all and it wonderful that everyone is happy the owner and the renter and my the broker.

Love Anneli

It's so wonderful to see how finnish people change their behave when summer is coming and now when we have so much of daylight. Now we only have few hours dark at the middle of the night, it start to feel like we don't have the night at all anymore and after few weeks we won't, then the sun will shine whole night and it feels like we have the day whole time and okay sometimes it's little bit difficult to sleep but I love the summer times here in Finland so i don't care and that's realy wonderful feeling.

People are so much happier now and even the strangest people start to talk with each other on the street and sking about things. It's so fun to see how much the spring does change people here in north. Finnish people start to be outside more and go to the summer cottages and they start to belive that they live again after the cold and dark winter. They start to undress the winter cloths and lessen the demands of what they have of everything. People are smiling when they are outside and now they even start to visist friends and relatives. Finnish people love to travel and now they strart to take small trips to everywhere in Finland and on vacation time in July they travel to other countries in Europe.

Now when the spring is here we have got so much of wild animals on our yarden and they are trying to eat grass and flowers. We have mostly different kind of birds but even a young brown hare. It's fun to watch what they are doing.

Now the sun is shining and we have something like 10 C degrees, the temperature will rise to 20 C degrees today so it feels like summer, yeah.

Okay now I have to go to work. Have a lovely day

Love Anneli

Hi again,

I had a idea today that I would want to great a own website where I could put a simple forum where people from all over the world could come and tell more about them and their daily life. They could even tell about the happy and sad things what happenes in their life and maybe even tell a problem of the normal day what everyone could try to help with and give good but easy advices.

Now I don't know how to go forward with this wonderful and difficult thought. Maybe someone could help me with thisD.

I have alwasy been a person who feel need of to help people with different kind of problems and maybe that's why I always end up working with customer service and feels great of it . I am now working at Real Estate Company here in Finland and I help people to find rent apartments and I love the work but sadly it will end after few months.

Today my day have been quite easy with a lot of customer and rent contract writening. Now on evening I will relax and watch TV. I will even try to read to my next test what I have on Saturday. I am still studying in the same time when I am working. it's quite hard but fun. I love to feel that I am good in something and it's so fun when I end some course and get good results. I learn so much of me and of the stuff what I am studying at. Someday when I finally get my examination I will be Human resours manager and that's great. I hope I will work HR things in future.

My cats and fishes are doing good and it's so fun to see how fast my goldfish are growing. My cats love to be outside now when it's getting warmer here in FinlandD.

Okay this is some of my thoughts today and tomorrow I will continue with something else.

Love Anneli

Hi everyone,

I am 35 years old female living in Finland. In my blogs I will be writing quite a lot of my thoughts and what happenes in my life here in our small town. I migh even tell little bit of how my diet is going and maybe after a while I get courage to write my own fantasy stories.

I love to get to know new people and I love to hear they talk about their life and culture. I am a person who likes to help people by listening to them and giving good advices about everything.

I hope you want to get to know me and my thoughts.

Love Anneli