#22

Flash game done... its pretty shitty. But looks cool, I like the visuals. Final 3d stuff rendering, thats gonna take 'a while'. Hopefully finished before leaving this island..

Meanwhile, I've found a way to entertain my host family, in form of Finnish national level hockey. Not that they care about the sport, but a mad fanatical Finnish fan screaming and swearing in a weird language seems to be fun for them to listen too. Stupid swedish referees...

#21

With every post its getting harder and harder to figure out what to talk about... This blogging thing is something I feel naturally very bad at. Anyway, time is getting scarce, and its soon going back to Finland. To be honest, I don't like it at all. Maybe I should start searching for jobs from Ireland instead from Finland? I don't know.

Finland is doing good in the hockey championships. Hope they keep up with that. What else to say? My flash game is not progressing. Can't get those sprite instance children to react to my mouse click functions...... its driving me mad.

#20

Less than two weeks left. It feels unbelievable, like I had just arrived. There's a few things I need to do as in terms of travelling exploration that I haven't yet done (visit the Arann islands) so hopefully I get to do that on the weekend.

The hockey world cup has started, so I get to return the favour to my host family of introducing rugby to me. Found this stream site on the web that let us watch the games with crappy video quality with a few seconds delay from the actual event. And on american commentary (which sounds extremely weirs as Antero Mertaranta's commenting voice is so hardcoded into the back of my head). So far, the Irish men seem to at least fake very well their interest in hockey.

#19

In school the exams are about to start so I need to find myself a project. Last week or been mainly fighting and arguing with the beloved maya in trying to finish my 3D animation, and banging my own head against a wall while trying to figure out how to properly script stuff in flash (my stupid game monsters refuse to react when I shoot them).

Hockey world championships are starting!! I really hope my internet connection will be good enough for streaming. GO SUOMI P******!!!

#18

Tomorrow its gonna be my host dad's birthday. I'm thinking about buying him a bottle of whiskey. Also paying the rent. I think they would appreciate if I paid the rent. It's so very quiet in the cottage with the girls gone. Don't know if I like it or not. There is solitude.. and silence. Both are things I enjoy and appreciate in life, but we are social animals after all. Now I need to socialise with the irish again.. sad.

#17

With my host's permission (who is also a teacher in the school), we (all the finns living in Spiddal) skipped school on tuesday to attend to the host's daughter's confirmation. It was surprisingly similar to what I remember how my own was back in the day (considering that this was a catholic confirmation and not lutheric). I was a little bit surprised that the priest talked in english and not latin (very progressive from the most conservative church in all of christendom). Day was great, I hear its currently warmer in Ireland on average than it is on the Iberian peninsula, so take that Irina! Enjoy you stay in Portugal hahaha...

#16

One of my housemaids (roommate) has her birthday tomorrow. I have no idea what to get her, but I'll figure something out.

Also, our hosts will take us to visit a sheep farm and a stables to do some horse riding and turf digging and other very irish stuff. I guess that is school.

School is like in Finland at the end of the term. Suddenly everyone has a rush to get everything finished by deadlines. I feel bad for my irish friends because here we don't have an option to stay in school afterwards to continue on the projects, and lessons are ridiculously short compared to the amount of work expected to be done.

And stuff.