Weekend Update:-)

How are ya doing? Here comes some pics and update from the weekend. It was nice, cause this weekend was a bit longer, as we had friday off..:-) So Friday morning started well with a wonderful swimming session at Aura Keskus with Anette. It was nice and relazing with swimming, sauna and girl talk at the same time. ;-) That morning I then had a meeting with the owner of my apartment and the real-estate lady. I got a new contract for my beautiful home, so I will have it for at least 2 more years! Jeeee!!!:-) I was soo happy!!!

Anette and I then had lunch in town before I headed home for some studying. In the evening Anette came to my place for a movie night and sleepover. We watched "Step up", which was soo good! It was so inspiring and the dancing was just amazing!:-) After the movie we decided to go for a walk before hitting for bed. We walked to the city and sat down at Raekojaplats for a bit. These "energy drink people" then came and gave us a bottle of this new energy drink. We decided to drink it the following day and not distract our beauty-sleep... well to make a long story short, when we had tasted the drink the following day we both ended up with the worst headache ever...so I do not recommend for you to buy this new "Traffic" energydrink... Just a little hint...he he...

Movie night at my place with Annie...

Saturday Anette, Mona, her friend, and I had lunch in the city. Besides that and the headache, it was mainly a study and relaxing day for me...

Sunday (today) was church. Pastor Enar Jallai from Põlva was preaching and Anette was leading worship. It was a really good Sunday meeting! I got alot from the preaching and the worship was amazing! :-) One cool thing was that there was a man from Norway who needed translation, so I translated the whole service from Estonian to Swedish!!! I was a bit unsure at first if I should do it, but then I went for it, and I am glad I did! By God´s grace I was able to translate it, and it was a really good traning and also a test for my level of understanding estonian...:-) God is so good! :-)

Annie leading the worship:-)


After the meeting we headed for Anette´s apartment were Helina, Anette and I had a delicious lunch... (You guessed it, it included chicken..hehe) We spent a relaxing afternoon there and then we went for a walk in the city before I headed home...and you guessed it...some more studying in the evening... It has been another wonderful weekend and now I am ready to face another school week. :-)

Fun times at Raekojaplats...

A New Season in Tartu 2007

So guys, the fall is finally here... Now school has started for me again. I came back to Estonia last Friday. I spent some time at my sister´s place in Helsinki before coming here. We had a good time with sauna in the evening and then some shopping and lunch the following day. Here you can also see some pics of that...

When I arrived in Tartu, Anette came to meet me at the busstation. We then spent all weekend together, with her staying at my place. It was so good seeing her and spending time with her again!! We had an amazing "girl weekend" with talks, walks, shopping Church and then Sunday after church we met up with our other dear friends, Kristiina, Joona, and Eeva for lunch at La Dolce Vita...Good times!!!:-)

Annie and I enjoying life at my place:-)

I started school on Monday, September 3rd. It is really good being back in beautiful Tartu again!!!:-) I have had some mixed feelings concerning this year, to be honest. There will be many changes taking place this year, the biggest one being Anette moving back to Norway again... Even though I know that it will be an amazing year, I have been a bit resistant.. I also know there is LOTS of studies and work to be done...I can feel the big challenge...BUT I am also getting really excited about the new semester, subjects, ect. I am once again reminded of God´s faithfulness - With God all things are possible. It feels good to be studying what you are interested in and what I feel God has called me to do. I just know that I need all God´s grace once again, but when I am weak He is strong...:-) It is comforting knowing that since He has called me, He will also make a way through it! :-) God has so much more faith in us than we have in ourselves sometimes... That is actually a bit overwhelming... but when it´s something big, it´s God!!!:-)

I am also excited about the youth work, and Church in general. There are many changes taking place in the youthwork, with leaders shifting, and people moving on to other areas of churchlife. Change can be challenging. It requires both openness, flexibility and making the most of the situation at hand. But I think the beauty of it is to see "life in motion". It is so good to see people moving on to new things and new leaders coming along to serve. It is growth. We had an amazing gathering on Monday with the youth leaders, and it was so amazing to see how God is at work! I think we could all sence how God is doing something new and fresh... So it will be an exciting fall-year! :-) God is good!!! :-)

Youth leader´s meeting at Anette´s place...

Some more holiday updates...

The last update only contained stuff from the roadtrip, but I realized that I need to write more from my stay in Norway and then the time I had in Estonia...:-)

So, I had about 1½ days in Norway before I flew to Estonia... In that time I got to see some stuff...I met Anette´s family, her mom, brother and his wife. We also got some time over lunch with Tom Jensen which was really great, and I got to see some of Fredrikstad, Sarpsborg and Oslo. I got to see Zoè Kirken and some of the staff there...:-) And then Anette and I walked around in the old part of Fredrikstad...

Here you can see Anette and I in front of Zoè Kirken...:-)

Anette and her mom:-)

Anette and I in front of her mom´s place...

Me in Fredrikstad...

Me with the old part of Fredrikstad in the background...

At the airport in Oslo, we met up with Lise, who also came to Estonia for a wedding. It was so great to see her again!

In Estonia I spent 3days at our youth camp. It was a blessed youth camp,which I really enjoyed, even though I was a bit exhausted after the trip... :-) We had worship, preaching, movie making, dancing, and lots of time and fun in the sun!!! It was great to meet some new people and see God moving in people´s lives...And then some wonderful news... Julia and Tom got engaged during the camp!!! Soo amazing!!!:-) Congratulations to you too once again!!!Here you can see some pics from there...

Helina, Monika and me...

A meeting in the tent...

Tom and Julia!!! Engaged!!!:-D

Some dance practise in the sun...

Saturday the camp ended and there was a family "summerday", where more people from the church came to spend the day. It was so great to have fellowship like that in the church!

I also got some more time with Lise, as she spent one night at my place. We had such a blessed time together! Lise you are so wonderful, sweetie! Sunday we went to church and enjoyed a wonderful meeting and then we took a bus to Tallinn later that day.

Lise and I in Tallinn...

Lise and I in the bus...:-)

Roadtrip to Italy!!! :-)

What can I say...? I was blessed with a wonderful holiday roadtrip through Europe to Italy! It still seams like a dream, a bit surreal, even now after the trip...


On the 5th of August after my morning shift at work, I finished packing my bags and headed to the airport. I flew to Copenhagen that evening where three Norwegians and a BMW were waiting for me. The travelleres were, my wonderful wonderful friend Anette, her boyfriend Jostein and his friend Oystein (sorry can´t make norwegian Ö)... They came driving down from Norway, and together the four of us continued driving through the night through Germany.
Anette, Oystein and Jostein...

The guys...Oystein and Jostein... The chicks...Jen and Annie...

Early in the morning we came to Austria, were we stopped and had breakfast at a river.

We then continued down to the northern parts of Italy. We came to Chioggia and found a hotel in Sottomarina near the beach. There we stayed two nights, had some beach time, some wonderful Italian food and icecream, and long walks through the city...

Sottomarina...



The following day we spent in Venice. What a wonderful experience! Such an amazing city! So charming!!!

Jostein and Anette in wonderful Venice...



Me in Venice.

We then continued down towards Rome and we drove through San Marino, the little country inside of Italy. Rome was fantastic! I was so blown away by that city actually!!! Soo much to see and amazing buildings!!! We got both some Rome by night and Rome by day! Beautiful, beautiful!

Tourists in Rome.
Colosseum...

Love sweet love...

Rome by night.

Dinner in Rome.

After that we headed for the beach and got some time there before we continued driving further up north...We stopped in a small place called Tarquinia and stayed there at a hotel. It was a charming little city. We had breakfast in the city and walked around in the small streets and shops.

View over Tarquinia.

A charming breakfast.

That day we were supposed to have a beach day, but the weather didnt agree with that plan, so instead we headed up to Pisa and saw the tower. We had a nice time there in the rain. A different rainy touristy experience. Quite charming that as well:-).

Some serious rain clouds...

Pisa!!!

In the rain with sun in our hearts...

From there we drove up to Genova. We checked in at a hotel, had dinner in the city and then enjoyed a nice movie evening at our hotel. :-) The following day was amazing with warm sunny weather, and we had an AMAZING day at the beach!!!:-D So beautiful and nice! As you will see in the pictures...;-)

The BEACH!!! :-D

Anette in Genova.

Beach in Genova.

In the evening we drove further north to Milano, were we found a nice hotel, which only had an available suite-so we took it! :-) Talk about nice hotel...hehe we then enjoyed some delicious Mexican food that evening! Most of the people in the city was actually gone- all Italians were by the coast..hehe, we though for a while that we were the only ones in the city...but then we found plenty of people at the restaurants...

Milano.

The next day we drove on and continued up to Switzerland. Talk about a beautiful country!!! The mountains were just so beautiful! We were acting like some serious papparazis! :-) (you know me...) The wonderful Swiss Alps...

Well, then we also drove through Lichtenstein, up to München, were we spent some hours that evening. München was a nice surprise for me actually. I dont know what I had expected, but it was a nice place...:-) and the restaurant owner really did his job well... :-)

München...

Lichtenstein...

We then drove through the rest of Germany that night, taking a 4 hour stop at a petrol station, were we slept in the car... We then got to Denmark in the morning and drove to Sweden. We had a little beach stop in Denmark though... That evening we arrived in Norway. We were all more or less tired..hehe...

Beach break in Denmark.
A break in Sweden for spirit, soul and body...

I then got about one and a half day in Norway, which was really nice. :-) I felt like a princess the whole journey!!! I just felt soo blessed and I was overwhelmed at God´s goodness and faithfulness. He blessed me so much financially through all these amazing people! And I could not have enjoyed the company more than I did! Guys, you are amazing! Thank you for an unforgettable trip!!! :-D

Anette, Lise and I then flew from Norway to Estonia. I had a few days there at our youth camp and after that I returned to Finland, where I am at the moment. I have a few more days of work and then I head back to Estonia for next years studies... What a blessed and amazing summer it has been!!! Praise God! :-D