really busyyyy...

I'm so sorry guys for not posting for a week! But I promise tonight later I am gonna make a post about this week. With the exam, work, and preparation for tomorrow night: HALLOWEEN!

To get you guys in the mood: here is my favourite song (taken unfortunately from the movie "Nightmare before christmas" but atleast they are singing about Halloween(the town) ;)

Accidentally.... Everything for 2€s!?

Tonight I went with M to the old town to drink a coffee and then go back to my flat. Well I accidentally walked pass an open "jewelleryshop"(like these cheap ones where you find everything in every color and style). And here it is not normal that the shops are open on Sundays. I went in and I found out that they are closing the shop and all the jewellery from earrings to rings and necklaces were 2€s' a piece!

Of course I didnt walk out from the shop empty handed... I found some really nice stuff and so cheap?!

Here pics of my findings:

1. sort of antique style earrings

2. just fell in love in the colours ;)

3. Wooden, a bit bigger round earrings

4. I am not religious, I just find these type of necklaces really cool

5. I've been looking for such "wings" for a longer time. Looks really nice when I put the 2nd ones to my other earringholes

6. & 7. almost the same ones, but number 6s' are a bit more festive and gold

8. cute small earrings with leaves 

9. A really cool brown but still petite bracelet

And all of this for 16€ (instead of about 44€s).... not bad ;)

Sweet tooth aint that bad

And just so that everyone knows, I love chocolate and sweet things!!

And that is why I am so nice... no wonder that all those women who try to lose weight are so cranky!!! ;)

Here is a link to a study which can prove my point:

Sweet tooth linked to pleasant disposition: study

And after looking at that picture of pralines there, it makes me want some chocolate(its a good thing that I don't have any here)

New hair and the sun is shining outside

It's Sunday afternoon and I am learning for our first exam of this semester(or atleast trying). It's gonna take place on next Friday so technically I am in not in that much of a hurry. But I should be, because I know in the coming days I am not able to concentrate for 8 hours in learning. In stead I am gonna go and meet Hanna, see possibly some of my other friends, have an excuse to go buy food even though I have more than enough in my fridge. And the best excuse of all: internet. 

First of all I have a small room and most of the day I spend it in my room. I have all the rooms of a small familyhouse packed in my room: The bedroom, the living room, office, dressing room(okay maybe the house is a bit bigger), gym (maybe the family just had luck and the mother (haha, you chauvinists out there) just got a raise) and the garden(in my case a balcony where are only old plastic garden furniture) is all packed in my 15m2. This is why the possible activities in this small room are endless. But still the winning factor is my lovely eMachines laptop which provides me with the World Wide Web. This little monster makes it hard for me concentrate on my learning. But what can you do, either fight it or panic on Tuesday afternoon that I seriously should start learning (and then check if I have gotten new email, even though I just checked them five minutes ago)

So now to the exciting part. I went to the hairdresser yesterday morning. At it was close that I didnt even go! But thank god I did.... After hearing that the place where I was going to was not that good from another person and then heard from another person that it was a good place, I was insecure about going. It paid off and my new hairdresser Denis made an amazing job. Even though when he cut off those first 20cm off of my hair, I think I stopped breathing for about a minute.

But it is gone and I am happy to present my lovely new haircut, which I am so happy about! This was the change I need for this fall!

And I also went to a seriously cool coffeehouse here in Salzburg with Dani, the coffee was just amazing:

If someone is interested, here is the internetsite of the coffeehouse: http://www.220grad.com/

So I am gonna continue tackeling against the power of the internet and continue learning!

WL&H

Time to cut off some hair

As the fall is coming, the leaves are chancing color and then they fall to give space for snow and the cold weather. It is time for changes... well my change for this fall will be that I am gonna cut my hair. I've been trying to keep my long hair and try that it'll grow even longer. But on Saturday it is gonna change. I'm gonna cut 15-20cm off from my hair. Those that have known me for a longer time, know that I have had many different styles and cuts. Hopefully some day I am able to keep my head and grow my hair seriously long :)

Underneath is a photo of the length which I would like to have. I would even prefer to have a little bit shorter hair. And no, I am not going to dye my hair blond. I am more than happy with my darkbrown hair 

I am off now to celebrate M's graduation and to spend one of the last days with my "long" hair

WL&H

WANTED: Colour!!

Now I have time, or atleast a little bit of time:)

Finally I am able to post my latest shoppings here:

I have fallen in love with really strong and bright colors during my time here in Salzburg. That might be the reason why I have green, orange, red and pink pants in my closet ;) Those green pants in the picture I bought last Saturday from Zara, and the orange trousers I bought today also from Zara. They have some really funky colored pants to offer (I recommend). The white shirt(Pimkie, was on sale) can be combined with many clothes, including all my pants mentioned above ;)

On Saturday I also found wintershoes for me. During the earlier years I haven't had a pair of real winterboots. Well this winter this point has been corrected and I am in love with my new boots <3 They are warm and now its the time to keep them open and a bit more loose. In the winter I can put on a pair of the socks which my grandmother knitted to my many years ago(those I have in purple and yellow and one pair in green which I have knitted myself) and close the boots properly.

So guys, even though the sun gets up earlier and darkness comes earlier, it does not mean that colors are forbidden. Its your time to bring some color to this dark season!!!

WL&H

South-Africa calling (or at leat e-mailing)

Well you guys, I have been seriously busy during the last days. I wanted to post something about my awesome Saturday and the evening when we went to see Cirque du Soleil. Unfortunately time flies and it is Wednesday evening. This post will also be quite short, since I need to write an E-mail to South-Africa concerning my Masterthesis. We got a list of the possible themes on Sunday on behalf of our university and I snapped an interesting theme for me. Today I had a talk with the person responsible for our specialisation and I was happy to hear that I can write my thesis 1. in english 2. with a very good professor who teaches in South Africa 3. I can stay in Salzburg 4. everything will be totally fine as we are only able to exchange e-mail (we will be able to meet duringo our 4th semester)

So now I am off to write that important Email. I'll keep you guys posted and Aida, the photos from my new clothes will come here tomorrow evening. Mä lupaan?! :)

Wl&H

A nice start to Sunday morning

Sunday  mornings rock... you dont have to hurry anywhere, you can stay in bed as long as you want and just hear good music like I did. This song was played on a music channel and I just wanted to post it. Alicia Keys has always made such beautiful songs and her voice is just amazing! M, this is for you :)

Hope everyone gets to enjoy their Sunday without any stress and worries 

WL&H

Ohayo gozaimasu!

エリサSan here!

Yesterday I attended my first Japanese language class and I am so excited to learn this new language. You really have to start from the beginning because in Japanese the signs have nothing to do with our a,b,c,d,e's and so on....

 

When one classmate asked how many languages I can speak, I was surprised to realise that japanese is my 6th language which I am learning, when counting finnish in. Maybe I'll make it during my lifetime to be able to speak in 10 languages. When I choose wisely, I am able to speak with over half of the world with their own mother language?!

As starters here are some basic information about Japan / 日本国: 

Estimated population for 2011: 127,960,000

Capital: Tokio with over 12.000.000 habitants

Official language: none

National language: Japanese

National foundation day: 11th of February 660BC

 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan)

Here some photos of the course material we have learned or what we are going to learn(and I picture taken somewhere in Japan):

It's all about Katakana and Hiragana: the 1st one is for the foreigners who are learning japanase and the latter one is the traditional way of writing japanese. We are learning first the Katakana and it is unbelievable how similar the words are to english, once you know how to say them correctly ;)

And our teacher also told us that the Finnish people are the Japanese people of Europe. Unfortunately I do not think this will help my learning process. I just need to practice the signs everywhere I can, yesterday I was drawing the sign in the air on the bus and in the train on my way home :)

But if one wants to learn, you just need to keep on repeating, repeating and repeating!

All the small things...

Perfect form, unbelievable endurance, unbelievable result and the perfect speed.....

Sorry guys, I am not talking anything dirty here: I'm talking about my new washmachine which is whirring (suomalaisittan surraa) in our bathroom. After fighting with it on Monday, taking a break on Tuesday and then trying to open the backside with the wrong sized screwdriver on Wednesday, my dad sent me an sms about the right screwdriver (those who know their screwdrivers, its' correct name is Thorx) today morning. At this point I wish to thank one swedish furniture shop which name consists of 4 letters and is written in yellow and the shops themselves are blue!!! Thank you for putting those little L-shaped "screwdrivers" to almost every package you sell! With this little L-shaped tool, I was able to open the backside of my washmachine and realize that the bottom was not closed but open!? The small part which was bothering us was laying on the floor just waiting to be picked up.....

But anyways, I am happy to present to the whole world my new Whirlpool AWO 5423:

Then to other things:

Since I had to give up the idea of taking part in the chinese course at the university of Salzburg, I have found (thanks to Alex) a good replacement for this loss: tomorrow morning I am taking part in a japanese language course.  

Domo Arigato Gaimatsu!!

Eventhough my weekend started today, tomorrow we have a long day a head of us with many FH tasks but I cannot wait for Saturday: It's time to go and see Cirque du Soleil!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-sVrEmDWsY&feature=related 

Been waiting to get to see the show for many years and finally on Saturday its time to see the worlds best known circus. From what I understand there should be one finnish man also but he might also take part in some other tour which Cirque du Soleil is having right now.

To end my blog for today I want to recommend one really good restaurant (99% Tourist-free): Lemonchilli on Nonntaler Hauptstrasse  in Salzburg

http://www.lemonchilli.at/

Not only the food was amazing but they do the most amazing drinks ever which fit to the Mexican food really good. My new favourite: Hugo!

A big hug to my best mexican friend Hugo, I wish to enjoy mexican food with you one day again!

with löööööve, Elisa <3

Washmachine

For today I only need two words: new washmachine

You guys certainly know that when one buys something new, one is happy and excited about this new thing. Well everything went well till we started to install this machine:

1. one part(which was holding the drum for the transport) fell into the washmachine. Well this should of course be removed, otherwise it could brake the machine from the inside

2. I would hope that when one pays many hundred €uros for a washmachine, you would get all the part that you need for the installation. Well this was not the case!!

2a. We drove(or rather moved in the speed of a snail) to a shop which logo is a Red House and the free english translation would be: construction house. The whole trip for the two small parts took almost 1,5 hours and the shop was not that far away

3. Since we were totally hungry after fighting with the machine for the last 2 hours, we went to an American fastfood chain which can be recognised from the yellow capital letter M. I ate a burger which I saw in an add and my day got even worse: when it says the burger has bacon, it does not mean one little piece of bacon?!

4. till this point we did not know the effects of point 1, until I phoned my dad in Finland. This of course did not help the situation.....

5. Since I have moved from Finland to Austria, my dads' screwdriver collection is not in my use: this day showed that I seriously need to buy a box with the basic screwdrivers. Some tools used today: scissors, a kitchenknife, a normal knife and of course ONE small screwdriver

6. At the end I was personally not at all happy to have a new washmachine. When I have to buy my next washmachine I am so paying some installer a good money that he does it in like 10mins and I can just turn the machine on...

Or maybe its just the first timers problems which we faced: maybe for the next time I have learned something

And to seriously make my day even better I came home from grocery shopping and found out that my milk was frozen?! And those who ask: was your milk in the freezer? No it was not?! our stupid fridge is just so cold in the back that stuff freeze if they are put into the back. And our fridge is so small, that putting the food of two people in there is already an accievement.

But hopefully all the stupid things are over for today and I get to enjoy my cooking: nudels with bambu and pigsmeat and for dessert: finnish pancakes with whipped cream and strawberry jam!

with sugarpeas it would have been perfect!

No words needed.... just enjoy!

I really hope(or know) that everyone had a better start for the week than me :)