I hope everyone is feeling as wonderful as me. Sorry that you haven´t heard from me for a very long time but I have so much to do with my study and my new work so I didn´t have any more energy or time to write this blog and I feel little sad about it but now it´s summer again and I have little more time because I don´t need to study for one whole month, yes. I will be at work the whole summer because I started this job in Marsh so I only have two vocation days and I will spend one of them in August and the second I don´t even know yet .

Where will I start with telling about my life now? Maybe the best way is to start with my study. I have already made my baccalaureate and on autumn I start with MSc so my studying is going well. I plant to get my MSc ready for Christmas 2008 and after that I will apply to a other university because I will also do Teacher and Psychological studies so I still have many years ahead before I can says I am finally ready with my studies .

On 10th March I got a now job at Serimo Oy (www.serimo.fi). I am an educator of Lemonsoft software. The company is still quite small and here is only four persons working. Two of them are owners. I am the only woman so that´s great and all the guys are nice and very helpful with everything. Serimo Oy is a dealer of lemonsoft software so we work very closely with Company Lemonsoft (www.lemonsoft.fi) too and there works seven persons (six men and one woman). They are all nice and we even sit in the same room with three of them and once of the week two coders come to our office too so we see them often. This company where I work is taking part of the development of the software too so we test the program whole time when we are not meeting the customers. My work is mostly to educate the different companies (who pay the software from Serimo Oy) to use the software. I need to know a lot of the program so that I know how it might behave in all kinds of situations. I even need to travel a lot too (in whole Finland) because the customers might be in very different places and Lemonsoft use my service every time they need a educator somewhere (there are other dealers of this software too, actually quite many even and they have also customers who needs training but they can´t educate when they don´t have enough of resource because they work alone or they don´t have enough of knowledge of the program like I have so then they call me and ask if I can do it ). I like the job but of course sometimes I feel like it´s too much for me . The customers are usually very nice but not always and they don´t understand why they had to pay at once I leave the office to come and train them so there are many times quite hard arguments of it . I also takes care of the customer support and there customers sometimes asks very difficult questions and of course they need the answer right always and they don´t understand that I am not that often at office because I am training some other company to start to use the software. Most times I like the job and even the customers . I also love the feeling when I can help because it´s so rewarding when they thank me and says that I gave them very good ideas . The hardest thing is for me to understand all the technical things of computer and software and everything like that but I start to know little about it already and little by little I feel like I start to be a professional with my duties . Of course there is still a lot to learn and I am working hard with it . I have only been here for 4 months so no wonder I sometimes still feels like I am "a snowman whos in the courtyard" (Finnish saying, it means "very lost") . Although of everything I do hope I can be here for a very long time so hold your fingers crossed for me .

What else have happened here? Not much. I lost my dear cat Kissen on winter time so I now only have two cats left; Jasmin and Siina. They are both ok now. There was few times where I already though I will lose them too but now Siina have started to eat again and she feels now ok. Jasmin went through a major operation few weeks ago but now she start to be better and I am trying to clean her big wound on the stomach every day and it looks very good and healthy. She had many big knots in her stomach and the Vet operated her many hours. She was so sick the days after the operation that it felt really bad on everyone and we tried to help her so good we only could . Now thankfully it´s over and she will leave a long and great life with us. Next week we know if the knots was cancer or not. My fish are ok. I still have 8 of them in live and they all are very lively but one of them suddenly changed the color. She was very cold almost red but now she is very white. It looks like I might have soaked her in the chlorine water but I promise I havent done it . I don´t know why she has tuned white almost like albino suddenly and it took only few days . She is still well and everything other things are ok so... We even have a wild brown hare on our yard what is not afraid of us so that´s nice and we also have quite many bird nests too so we can every day wake up with bird concert (what is not always that nice... ) .

We have also started to paint our house and garage to red (its the cheapest color here in Finland ). It looks very weird in my eyes but maybe after a while I start to even like it . The funny thing is that this is a color what farmers here in Finland usually use on barns around the fields . So now it looks like we also living in a own big barn . I shall take a photo of it when the house is painted. I have never lived in a red house so this is very new for me too but maybe it´s a lucky color (hopefully ) so after a while we have so much of luck that we don´t even know what to do with it in the end .

Here in Finland it haven´t really happened anything special. We fight about the very expensive gasoline and oil like every other country . We also fight over many different taxis which are very big here and we fight about salary that is not growing like all other things are . We have now the summer time here and next month will be the time when almost everyone is on vocation so everything will be very slow . Here in Vaasa we will have a Residence trade show and it´s quite close to our place so we might even go and see it.

Here are few pictures what I found of Vaasa. The last one, what have two buildings, is a picture of the place where I work at. The company have only small room on the third floor but I wanted to show you the place because it looks very nice in this picture . I hope you will enjoy the photos as much I do.

Have a wonderful day .