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It's quite difficult to describe the feeling of being betrayed by myself...on what you ask?
Well, looking at the date of my last post... I can't quite understand how I haven't been posting anything. Anyways, quite alot of things have changed since last time which is maybe one reason why I haven't been writing anything.

Definetly starting school is one major factor in not having so much time to do things like writing here.. The first period was pretty...weird because of the christmas and newyear holidays being right smack in the middle. Subjects I had were Chemistry 1, Philosophy 1, Geographics 1 and Finnish 1. Being "new" to the system and not being very aware of the...quality of examns I didn't exactly put much effort into the studying, but still got pretty decent grades - eventhough I did miss the Chemistry examn =] So on a gradescale of 4 to 10 I got 9 from Philosophy and 7 from Finnish 1 and Geographics 1 which in my opinion were satisfying compared to the amount of time spent studying outside of sitting in the class and listening / writing.

The 2nd period (actually the fourth, since I started on third) just reached it's end, and again I'm quite happy with the grades. A full 10 from English Course 1, 9 from English Course 3, 8 from Math 1 and 8 from the chemistry I missed last time - went to all the classes eventhough I didn't have to because I thought it would help...most likely did.

One thing worth mentioning is that on the first class of the English Course 1, in the middle of a talking excersize, the teacher came to me and asked bluntly that "what are you doing on this course?" which ofcourse confused me for a second before se went on saying that "from what I can hear, you shouldn't waste your time on this or the following courses if you don't want to, because you obviously have a solid feel to talking english already". Of course I replied that eventhough I know how the language works by just...feeling it, I'm not too good with the structure of the language if I would need to explain it to others or so. After the lesson we had a good talk about what I should do and decided that I'd go the the third course instead and only attend the examn of the first course. The third course teacher and I got along pretty well too, when we recieved our examns after the period, I went to ask him about my essay, basicly just looking for negative and constructive advice on what to do better, but instead of telling me about what to do better, he basicly just praised how good it (the essay) was and so on...well sure, it's nice to get positive feedback, but it's hard to accept that much of it at once, especially since I know I could be alot better.

So, 3rd period going on now, with courses: Math 2, Biology 1, Finnish 2 and English 2.
Eng teacher I didn't like too much, but as I don't have to attend the classes, it doesn't matter.
Math 2 teacher is good, the woman whos classes I was on for Chemistry 1 and Math 1.
Finnish teacher is amazingly inspiring and enthusiastic, not exactly the typical Finnish teacher from what I know. Biology teacher is also pretty nice, an elderly woman with obviously interest in the subject and a good sense of humor =]

The first period was all day classes, but on the second I decided to try evening classes and it proved to be a good choice, since the majority of students on evening classes are less childish, adults or retired, so there is less fuzz and more time spent on the actual subjects. Talked about it with one of the teachers and she quite clearly expressed that teaching day classes isn't exactly the most...fulfilling thing to do. So for now it would seem I'll be attending evening classes.

That pretty much covers school I think, just have to add that so far it's been really nice and stimulating, might just want to go through the whole thing. Three years would be quite easy, but 2½ wouldn't be too hard either so most likely that will be my aim, if nothing else comes up.

Summer holidays coming after this period, I'm seriously considering of perhaps taking a few classes on the summer, depending on if I find / feel like finding some work...

I decided, that rather than posting everything at once, I'll do myself and possible readers a favor by posting several independent and thus more clearly on-one-subject sort of posts.

Soon again

(edit: the date was all wrong)