Its been a warmer week in helsinki this week, thank God for that. Right now i feel like i have been run over by a tractor after sleeping so late yesterday and having to wake up early in the morning today. Am just from school for some seminars and to meet with my thesis supervisor. The seminars were ok, very interesting and were worth missing a shift to attend. Buuut, my thesis supervisor had to ruin my day, NOTHING i do is ever good enough for her, she is what you would call a perfectionist..well..thats the closest i can get to describing her. Its quite understandable given that she is the programme co-ordinator in our degree programme but pliz..does she have to be so harsh?I wonder. I mean, she never ever compliments me despite the lots of research i have done and the hard work i have been doing on that paper.
I have like a million things to do on my thesis and hand in by tomorrow, i want to watch a movie and i want to make sure i get sufficient sleep before kesho othawise its going to be a bad day for me at work! Now am just sitted here wondering what to do and what to postphone and i realize that i have to do them all today!!If only i could, i would watch the movie kesho but its on channel four so its either i watch it today or miss it.
Am loving my new job by the way, its quite interesting and i think this one is for keeps. It will give me the experience i need before i start applying for a job abroad(not planning to stay in this hell hole forever) and i hope i will improve my language skills.

Sometime ago, a friend wrote something on her blog that i found very interesting..about when the wrong person loves you right. Since then, i have been thinking about it a lot and i just wonder why sometimes life has to be like that..when u want something so bad and you cant have it ama when u get so much of something that you dont like/love. Well, there is this guy who is reeeeaallly crazy about me sometimes i think he is nuts. He just cant keep his eyes off me whenever we meet and is so interested in conversing with me while i, on the other hand just cant stand him, AT ALL!!!!To me, we have absolutely nothing in common but to him, we were just made for each other and he'd do anything to make me his galfriend. So far i've turned down his offer to meet up for coffee, visit him and he doesnt even have my phone number!We met at a party jana and he tried all he could to talk to me and at first i completely ignored him, gave hints that am not interested in talking to him but at some point i felt like am being too bitchy so i talked with him kidogo then made an excuse and walked away. He was pestering me for my phone number so i promised to give it to him(just to get him off my back) before leaving the party then when it was time for him to leave...he left before me...he came up to me and went like 'am leaving now' i was dancing so i just told him ok, bye but he said it again and i repeated the same words. He must have felt really bad and i could see it written all over his face and he semad 'yaani thats all you are going to say to me?' and i asked him what more he expected me to say to him. I guess at that point he gave up and just walked away. I didnt think much about it until today..and i felt a tinge of guilt inside me(poor guy).

Ok, i cant stand the guy but that does not mean i should treat him like trash. On the other hand, its not that i intend to be rude to him or ignore him but when i see him it just happens. Of course i know he feels really bad about it and probably wonders why i have to be so bitchy but he still tries again and again, maybe hoping that the next time will be better than the last. Sometime ago, my sister(who by the way thinks this is the right guy for me) was making noise at me for treating the poor guy so badly and going on and on about how nice he is, wat a good boyfriend he'd make then she mentioned that there is one gal who is just crazy about the same guy that i cant stand. It is in situations like this that i cant help but wonder why life has to be like that sometimes. Probably the guy treats that gal badly and she is always wondering why he has to be so mean to her and am sure the guy wonders why i have to be so mean to him. Quite interesting i must say!

My week..

It started early and didnt start so well..on saturday to be precise..when i slipped and fell on my way home, kwanza just outside my house(damn this winter). I sat there for like five minutes swallowing in the pain then slowly i stood up and limped the rest of my way home. I thought i had broken my leg..but luckily i didnt. So i tried to massage it then took some painkillers and slept coz it was around midnight. The following day in the morning hata i wasnt remembering ati i had umizad my leg the previous night until i stepped out of bed and felt the pain, went to the toilet and by the time i got there, the pain was too much to bear. I took some painkillers and decided that i had to go to hosp. the following day just to be on the safe side coz i felt that something was seriously wrong. Unfortunately, it was on a sunday..which meant that the health centre was not open, and at that point i had to decide whether to wait till monday ama go to the emergency hospital. Anyway at the end of the day i decided i had to do with painkillers and wait till monday to go to the health centre.
On monday early in the morning i woke up and walked to the health center which luckily is about five minutes from where i live, unfortunately since i had not booked an appointment i couldnt see a doctor on that day which meant that i had to either book an appointment for later or see a nurse(thats how the system works in finland!) i settled on seeing the nurse..though i knew there wasnt anything much she was going to do.
By then my leg was swollen so when i went in i showed her where it hurt and she could even see for herself...but this is the most interesting part...without even touching it or anything, she told me to 'keep something cold' which i interpreted as 'put some ice cubes on the swollen part' and 'eat some painkillers'!!!Despite my annoyance at her incompetence(sp.) i had to try really hard not to laugh at her wack english. Then she added that 'see if it gets worse u should go and have some xrays done'. So i walked back home a dissapointed person debating with maself on what to do next. I decided to call my best friend and i narrated to her the whole story about what the nurse had told me and she was beyond herself with laughter and was like 'so you should wait till it gets worse then go to a proper hosp'. She advised me to go to another hosp just to be on the safe side. I went to the emergency hosp and despite the slow services there, got myself treated and the doctor advised me to get lots of rest....which is a good thing because i always feel guilty sleeping during the day when pple are working ama in school(though i dont have classes anymore), so at least i consoled myself ati i cant do much coz am sick!!:-), as if thats not enough, this has been the coldest week in finland this winter, its been snowing and we are talking about minus 15degrees(or more in the mornings and evenings) in helsinki, which, mind u is warm compared to other parts of finland!

The whole week i have been resting and healing but on wednesday i had this job interview..its a really good jobbo, something i have been looking for a long long time now. Despite my sick leg, there is no way i could call them and tell them that i cant go for the interview, i really needed the job. So on wednesday morning i went for the interview..u should have seen me trying really hard to walk normally despite the pain because i didnt want that manager to see me limping lest she decides am not in good physical condition to start working..ama ask why am limping which meant i would have to explain to her in FINNISH, i do speak finnish but some things i have no idea how to say them in that language. I was being interviewed by three pple, i understood some things they asked and at some points i was completely floating..but it went well and i went home optimistic. I had to call today to find out what their decision is.
Which i did and the lady went like 'what do you think the decision is' and i told her i think its positive so she said 'ooh, u are optimistic, well congrats..u got yourself a job, when would you like to start?'I was soooooo excited for a moment i forgot all my finnish but after recovery i told her i can start on monday. So on monday am starting a new job, a job that has a lot to do with my career, something i have wanted for a long time and a well paying job..thank God for that.
Despite the sick leg, and all the sleeping during the week i feel its been a fruitful week in that i got a job-which is a big step ahead.

So, finally...

For ages now i have kept promising myself that one of these days i will start my own blog finally i have managed to start one though halfway through i almost said to hell with it coz half of the names i wanted to use for my username have already been taken so i kept gettting 'sorry, the name is not available'. I hope i can be able to keep up with the blogging and my buddies too can be able to view my blog. I love reading other people's blogs and i think its a fab idea.