100 Days with my first Family

Today is the 100th Day mark being with my first host Family. Also, there was frost all over Southwestern Finland for the first time so far. I just came back to Lieto from Laitila to have a fun exchange student weekend. I'm trying to let you all know how it is going, but no news is good news. If you don't hear from me in a while that is because I am doing fine and adjusting well to Finnish culture. I need to be spending less time on the computer anyways. Below are some pictures from the weekend.
This picture is my 'Family Portrait'' of the Rotary Exchange Students from my school. The Oldies from South Africa and Australia are in the background and a Newbie from Colorado is next to me.

Below are some of the exchange students at dinner time

3 Month Mark; ja en voi habla any langauge!!

Well it's been an interesting few weeks. Some really good things have happened such as being able to play soccer with some people from school on Friday's after school, and some bad things such as loosing my English skills, sun rising later and setting earlier joka päivä, ja no snow yet!! I'm now at the point where I have lost my English skills, completely forgotten Spanish (and when I speak it Soy gringo) and can not speak Finnish fluently (yet, I am learning quickly!). Anyway there is nothing completly new going on, I just thought that I would post because today is an important day (exactly 3 months talla Suomessa) and because I needed a distraction from my Iceland paper I am writing in Geography class. Attached pictures are from my trip with host family to Helsinki. The last photo was my art project in Painting Class. we had to draw ourselves as a chair so I chose an American La-Z-Boy and lots of Finnish leaves that are beginning to cover the Americanness of the couch? Symbolic? Maybe a little bit...