Chocolate <3

We celebrated Easter yesterday. First Tim, Moy, Cameron and I went out to eat. We took a train to St James and walked to Kings Cross. It isn´t hard to imagine why you shouldn´t be walking alone in that area when it´s dark :/ It was interesting seeing new areas, though, since now that I´ve been here for 2months most places I go to have already become familiar to me. We made it safely to this nice restaurant next to the water fountain. It took a while to get our food, but it´s just a good way to grow appetite! My chicken breast salad was delicious :P After dinner we had heaps of dessert waiting at home... I think it was Carla coming up with the idea of hiding Easter eggs. So we all bought chocolate eggs for each other and hid them in the loundry room. Even though the room is so small it took a while to find all of the eggs! Renar had the hardest time finding one being hidden behind the microwave. Then we spent the rest of the night playing Millionare-card game and eating chocolate. I´ve still got a huge bag of chocolate left :D

I´ve got a Finance mid-term exam today, and I should be studying instead of writing my blog. But I just can´t focuse anymore :/ I´ve done a few practice quizes and prepared a cheat sheet (you´re allowed to bring one A4-sized cheat sheet to the exam). Fortunately I´ll have some more time to study tomorrow.

I´m so excited about leaving for New Zealand on Thursday! Denise and Carla have done most of the planning, because... I don´t actually know. Maybe because I´ve been at the uni or at the gym. Anyways, I´ve been shopping a bunch for the trip (the shoes and clothes will be useful also in Tasmania, at Gold Coast and where ever I´ll be traveling :) Yesterday Carla and I went to hiking stores in Town Hall. They had Easter sales and I ended up buying hiking sandals (these really pro ones) and a rain coat. In one of the stores I met the first Finn here so far. I was explaining to Carla how most of my hiking stuff is in Finland and he overheard it and started talking to me in Finnish. He was from Oulu and had gone to Kastelli middle school (my high school). World really is a small place!

Today I´ve been doing nothing but studying, and I went to the gym to get a new program. I didn´t have to do it yet but I´ve got a feeling it´s gonna be a killer! I´m happy I needn´t run anymore, though. I don´t like the treadmill. And the treadmill doesn´t apparently like me. A week ago I decided to be "smart" and minimize my time of running. I stepped onto the sides of the treadmill and increased the speed until it was going really fast. Then I hopped onto the treadmill and fell instantly on my stomach! It took me a while to crowl over and stop the machine. Other people were either looking worried or laughing at me. I guess I must´ve looked really funny lol. My knees are quite messed up, though; bruised and bleeding. Well, I think I should stopping writing this nonsense and get back to studying. Or maybe I´ll have some dinner...