25 km on canoe in one day

Yesterday I got idea to try canoe. :) And today we tried it with my friend from Czech republic Jarek.

We lend it from one hungary guy who is living here in Jyvaskyla for 10 years. We make an appoitment with him at 9am today.

I was waiting near 'hotelli Allba', near the lake Jyvasjarvi at 9 o'clock ;) while Jarek was shopping in Lidl. We wanted to take with us more than 4 litre of water per each, because today's forecast: 30 degree C.

He came just after hungary guy, with one open bottle of mineral water. He told me that his plastic bag with bottles pust to wheel on his bike and it makes big boom. It makes hole to plastic bag, but the most funny thing was, in that time was jogging some man near by and the water came from bottle maybe to 3 meters :) That poor jogging man was totally wet but he could not start yelling on Jarek, because Jarek just told: ,,Oh I am sorry" and he find out that he is foreigner and he can not use finish "strong" words to him :)

We got the instruction from Bela, that was the name of hungary guy, how to use canoe. It was mainly for me, because I have tried it before :)
But Jarek was experienced :)




We start our journey and stay by every nice place.
It was maximally wonderfull day. Sun was shining, wind was not strong... just we canoe and some other people on boats :)

Finish people really know how to relax and how to make their housing nicer :) We visited maybe 5 different places on several islands and there were fully furnished cottages. After such a experience you can really find out what is the criminal level in Finland... really



We stop on one island to have lunch, and after a while some people came and we find out that they are owners of place where we are. So we start packing our stuff to not bother them and when they came closer we appologize them to be here. But they just relaxed answer that it is no problem. They told us they are going to spend in their cottage next 4 weeks. We were thinking in one little one but then we saw they are opening another bigger one near by. That little one was just sauna :)



Weather just change maybe 2 kilometers before our comeback. Wind was really hard and lake was starting to be more wave than ussually. We saw raining clouds so we put more effort to paddling.

But our canoe always changed the course, but we made it very happy and finally came back before rain.

Behind us is another beautifull day in Jyvaskyla, Finland. And I really start to find out, that this country can offer a lot of beauty.

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January in Finland

First day

Google prosím, prelož mi to do slovenčiny.

So my first day in Finland is behind me and when I look back … I experienced a lot


When I woke up it was 10am. I heard that Tierry and Sthefan, Tierry is from France and Sthefan is from Germany (They both are studying here from september 2008), are speaking about some opportunities to go skiing. But Tierry decided that it is really expensive to ge there now just for 3 hours. It was something around 30EUR ( equipment included ).

At 11am we have got arrangement with Antti and Justina before Justinas dormitory. We went shopping. It was very nice sunny day, with a looot of snow :) We went to shopping to the area near our dormitory by foot.


Firstly we just checking prices and find out what is expensive and what is cheap and where. We were in LIDL and another big supermarket called PRISMA. Some prices is similar to ours in Slovakia, but a lot thinks are more expensive.

After checking prices in LIDL and PRISMA , we took one guy from Hungary and go with him to the center of Jyvaskyla :). The center is 5 km far away from our dormitory.

In center I finally met with my friend Nada, who is here for one year and she wants to stay here as much as it possible.



She likes this country very much because of a lot of things which I starting getting know.

I was looking for some finish SIM card with cheap prices and Antti recommend me after visiting second KIOSK that Tele Finland will be good choice. So I buy one card for 9,90 EUR and get card with 11 EUR credit and unbelieveble prices. Call (per minute) and SMS: 0,069 EUR. It is totally great and I find out again that in Slovakia we don`t have the lowest prices.



Juchuuu, I have got new finish number :))

Then we realized to go back to dormitory and go shopping. Justina went with Antti to LIDL and I with Nada came to Nadas apartment to pick up some stuff for me. We took it to my room and went to go shopping to LIDL and PRISMA.

When I came back Sthefan told me that they are organizing some party today (he has had birtday, but I found it our later :) ). At 6pm around 6 other people came to our apartment and starting enjoying life :) Here was some French, German, Finish, Czech guys and girls. I joined them for a while and it was great to see many cultures how they are chatting off course in English :).

Just imagine, that you are in some room and behind the doors are some people chatting in English, French, German and sometimes Finish and Czech :) It was amazing atmosphere, and it was better than radio :)

What is my feelings after first day? I am very happy that I have learned English because now I can chat with people and get to know each other better. And also express my feelings. I do not know everything yet but that is the one of the reasons why I am here, to improve my English.



And I am happy that I am here now in Finland and I hope that I will be satisfied if I done everything here :)