End of vacation

Sorry about the lack of updates lately (although it's only my parents that have been complaining, and they've seen me every day), but I've kind of felt no reason, or indeed time, to blog for few days. I've been meeting people and feeling very guilty about not meeting others, I've been panicking about the end of the vacation pretty much since it started. One of my greater strengths is planning ahead and seeing the big picture - but it also works to my disadvantage in situations like this, always having my eye on the next big event (in this case going home).

I've been telling people that our vacation is 10 days - but the truth is that two of those are arrival and departure days: on the arrival day we arrived in the morning and on the departure day we're leaving on the 7 am plane (yay). So that leaves eight - of which two or three was dedicated to relatives, which leaves about five days for random vacationing... divided by around ten people or so that I wanted to see doesn't leave much per person. Chu tells me my friends will understand my situation, but I can't help but to feel that I've let too many people down this time, even my bestest friends. And I hate to think I would have let people down who trust me and count on me.

But few people have promised to visit us in Vancouver soon, and I can't wait to show them my new city. It's been strange being back in Helsinki, people are so different here. It's funny seeing foreigners who speak English and I feel elated, almost like I should go and talk to them to feel more at home. And when did that happen? When did I start feeling like a foreigner in Helsinki? It doesn't feel bad, just odd. Maybe it's because this 13 months has been the longest I've ever been away from Finland - when living in UK we used to come here several times a year. And I used to complain about the three hour flight and cost of the £130 ticket... you don't know a good thing before you lose it.

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