Falling in Love: Continued

So, we begin at the Stammtisch.
Erin, Charlotte and I were early, but no big deal. We took silly pictures (that looked very odd if you zoomed in) and joked around. Typical.
We watched people arrive from Roninmäki and the other Kortepohja buildings; once there were enough people we got up from the couches and joined in.
The theme for the night was 'Tag-Me' which meant to wear white and bring a marker so people could sign your shirt. Erin had a flag to sign, but none of us bothered with shirts since we weren't university kids and didn't know more than the names of most people.
As the night wore on I danced with everyone, talked, met some more people, tasted Filip's homemade wine-- all that good stuff.
At one point we second place winners got our prizes: an entrance and free drink ticket for Bra (which Charlotte was definitely excited about) and the belly button t-shirt (which I was definitely excited about.) We decided to let people sign those shirts. Why not? Though, by the end of the night, I would've liked more signatures.. I missed a few people.. but whatever. I still like Remi's 'French kiss?' (since he's french, and all) and Bruno's inappropriately placed 'Brazil Loves You' (since he's brazillian and all) and the other statements in foreign languages and broken english. I've yet to figure out who wrote 'ZUM!' I'm guessing one of the Belgians. After all: they would.
I kept on dancing and...well...enjoyed being single :) for which Charlotte and Erin owe me Ben and Jerry's ice cream. (We have a game.)
Too bad the stupid (but really, not stupid) thing had to end at 3. They turned off our music even earlier. This was the good part though. Without the actual 'Barbara Streisand' coming through the speakers everyone in the place sang it themselves. Along with a bunch of other songs like a rendition of that 'Hey, hey baby, (ooh, huh!) I want to kno-o-ow...' song that went more like 'Hey, hey, baby (ooh, huh!) Jyväskylä-ä-ä, will you be my school? (or maybe it said home...it was hard to tell). Whatever.
During the whole thing I was totally totally reminded of that end-of-governor's-school-oh-my-god-don't-make-me-leave-these-people-ever feeling. (You see, most of the JYU exchange students are leaving sometime this month. Sucks.) With everyone singing loudly together and a lot of other people taking pictures/filming it made me think of the mid night breakfast when we all got up on the tables and sang 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight.' Once everyone is home, they'll watch the videos and most will cry. I know the feeling. I felt so connected with everyone there in those moments. That was the best part. Sheesh...I'm not even leaving and I wasn't even with them through everything and I almost cried just because I know how they feel.
But thank god no one's leaving like, tomorrow. There's still one or two full weeks. I've already been invited to 2-3 more parties...and I'm sure that won't be all.

Everyone took their own sweet time leaving the place; the word of after parties still needed to be spread. I was almost dragged to the party in Roninmäki by Bruno, but it was too far away to go there and walk back at such wee hours. I opted to go to the Kortepohja after party. The one that was very last minute, and no one excatly knew where it would be. As a group, we headed towards the M building and went from floor 5 to 4 to 1 to 9 and back to 4 before finding a suitable room. I forget who's room it was, but we went in and sleepishly chilled. There were some tunes on and some drinks were passed around. I was Maarten's (Belgium) footrest and I used him as a pillow in addition to the one someone threw to me. It wasn't too cozy.. but if it had been any more comfortable I probably would've  fallen asleep.
Eventually Maarten and Benny decided to retire to their dorms. Charlotte had to get our 4th player's shirt from their place, so we left too. At their dorm, we found out we'd missed the shirtless/pasta after party next door. Haha. NBD.
We three girls left and headed our separate ways.

That's basically the end of the night. I went home, slept, slept in, missed my 8 am class (sucks, since it was Music, where I get to sing), and made it through the school day with only falling asleep once. In PE. (We were doing a relaxation process-thing.)

And now I'm in Uurainen. I went ice skating on a pond with my host sisters this morning. I was on figure skates this time, which are unbelievably different than hockey skates. But I got the hang of it after a bit. And I didn't fall and kill my wrist this time :) Probably because nobody tried to trip me (*cough*TaylorSchwab*cough*).
The snowflakes here are incredibly perfect. Like forreal. I'll have to get a picture of them at some point.
I also went to some Christmassy eat-rice-porridge-in-a-hut thing. Even though I was right by a large fire, I was freezing. But now it's sauna time which is exactly what I want to do right now. So that's all for you guys. More later.