Stop. Take a breath. Relax.

It's been now more or less one month since I started working in restaurant Nokka as a waitress. I had one really rough day this week. I think it was the point that my mind and body said both to me that "hey, you're tired". Something that was not avoidable, and I knew that it would happen some day, just didn't know that the day was Wednesday. I worked 11,5 hours and as I have only been these few weeks as a waitress it's a new thing for me to work such shift. It's no wonder it's called a monkey shift. You really start like feeling one. I know that I've learned a lot and I will keep on learning. But this weekend is for resting. Learning new things happens all around the day, and that's what has been happening to me during my weeks in Nokka, not a surprise you get tired. And yes, that is why I also need to rest :)

Only one problem. I'm really bad at resting. I always need some activity. Tonight I couldn't sleep, I was turning in my bed for 1 hour and now as I'm writing this text, you can guess that I'm still not sleeping. I started to stress my weekend, what am I going to do as I don't have any plans. Will my weekend be boring? Will I just be cleaning the house and doing laundry? Hopefully not.

Some people have been wondering whether I'm crazy or not as I will be working all summer and during the midsummer I have 4 days off from Nokka, I will spend them in the reception of a hotel, working. I think there's a light at the end of the tunnel (like there always is; some people look just too narrowly to see it) I will definitely save money, get a great amount of experience in the restaurant field, and have fun.

Now, maybe. Good night (?)

Birthday surprise

I think I had never done any bigger surprise to anyone. This was my first one. I didn't want to buy my boyfriend just a normal gift with normal stuff inside. I wanted to have a nice day with him and hope that he would appreciate it as a gift from me. So, we woke up and had breakfast. It wasn't a normal breakfast. I put two glasses full of cold water and gave the other one to my boyfriend and took the other one for me. I told him that this was our breakfast. He really thought I was kidding, but I wasn't. We took the train to the center where I put a scarf on his eyes. I held his hand and we walked around town, of course he looked really stupid with the scarf on his eyes. I made him pose in this picture.

Well, I had fun making him do such things. I don't know if he enjoyed it, probably not as much as me. Then I took him to the lobby of Hotel Seurahuone, where I made him sit down and listen to my recording where I told him some stories. In the meantime I took my violin to our table and asked for glasses of sparkling wine. Then I grabbed him from the lobby and guided to sit in our table. I let him take the scarf of and started to play the violin. We got our glasses of sparkling wine and had an amazing brunch! Really delicious, thanks to Brasserie le havre! :)

We enjoyed our brunch and continued our day by going to Korkeasaari Zoo. We were actually both pretty excited.

I know that I have my camera pretty often with me, but I just don't take that many pictures. BUT here are few! A bear in the cave (hard to see, it's sleeping) and me and then also these cute small mongoose.

It was a really sunny day, luckily! Eventhough I had plan B if it would have been raining. We went home and after a little rest, we started to prepare dinner. We had a 4 course dinner with salmon as the main course. We also had a nice white wine with it what I had gotten from school. We also watched a series of Game of Thrones, which actually has surprised me by being pretty nice tv series. And wow! That was a long day, but really nice. It was a real summer day and I was really enjoying it. Although my shoulders burned a bit in the sun.