I made it! I passed the piano exam 3. :D I had to play four songs with the piano, as I had done the scale exam earlier and in fact today it went pretty well. I made a few mistakes but when I didn't get stuck to them it was good. When I did the scale exam I only just passed it but this time with the songs I did quite well. It's possible to get a mark from 1 to 5 and I got 4. They also said that I listen to my own playing and the way I play moves the listener. There was also something else but I can't remember it anymore. Well, I'll get a copy of that paper so I'll tell more about it then. Now I'm just extremely happy. But at least on Monday I'll get my feet back on the ground when I realise that I only have a bit over two weeks before the last exam weeks starts.

When I'm sitting here I could actually put here some pics that I took at a birthday party. There are some really good ones even taking pictures of moving objects is more difficult. :D

In this pic there's not an angry dog. It's a dog that's imitating a pig.
Another dog.And with the permission of the persons in this photograph. Making faces.
And yes...Happy Mayday!

Sometimes there are moments, which should be written with a capital M. Also today.

It was raining a bit and I was walking the short trip from the bus stop to the place I had left my bicycle. I was listening to Farewell by Apocalyptica but still I could hear the sound of the rain. I jumped over the a place almost managing to save my shoes, that have already suffered quite a lot, from gettin even more dirty and walked to my bike. I dried the saddle of the bicycle with my gloves and turned the bike into the right direction. With the rain on my face I headed back home. When I looked attentively around me I could see a bit of green. Under the dead, yellow grass next to the road there was growing new life, refreshed by the rain. Nearly all the snow had melted but in the ditches, on bigger piles, in the forest, and on the shady fields there still was some. Fog was raising over the fields and still frozen lake. The rain was at the same time making colours look bighter and fading all the distant things into something grey. Cool raindrops were falling on me drawing darker dots to my olive green jacket and sticking to my glasses. The smell of the wet soil was everywhere...

That was The Moment of this day.

Then some pics. Some are taken yesterday others are a bit older.

Now! :D Now the "bigger artwork" is ready. The one I've been taking about so much. It took pretty much time to make it maybe because I only used my time to it on weekends. Then I didn't even have time to continue every weekend or I just was too lazy to do anything for it and so getting it done took so long... Well, anyway now it's ready and it's not even the worst possible. At least I once used lots of colours. Scanning the drawing almost started World War III between me and A3-size papers. One half of the pic had to be scanned two and the another half three times before they looked normal or were at least straight. Putting the pics together...well, let's say that clone tool has got the power.


Even drawing it took so long there's not any bigger explanation for the pic than this Or actually that is over ten minutes explanation. :D

This day was a bit different from the others. It wasn't anything really big ar anything, but still different. It started right in the morning when I walked the short trip from bus stop to my school. The sun had already risen above the horizon and it was light. As usual I was listening to music while walking and the song I was listening to was Svo hljótt by Sigur Rós. The combination of the sun and that song suddenly made me feel really good and it lasted quite long. My moods don't usually have anything to do with the weather, but with that song the sun had a some kind of effect on me. (Music affects me for sure.) Then I sat in the sunny entrance hall of my school and all the time I wanted to laugh.

The second special thing today was that I felt like I'd be more awake that usually. Not like being less tired or something, but like seeing more things and thinking about them. I'm not saying that I'd remember this day better than the others or that I'd have suddenly got an ability to see something that other people don't, but all the day I've had a feeling that something is happening in my head and I actually was concentrating in every lesson. :D I guess that at the moment I'm not thinking anything more than usually at this time of the evening, but earlier today I was thingking plenty of things which I can't remember anymore. A couple of these days and the marks I'll get in next exams will be better than ever before. :D

The third special thing was an excercise I had to do in tutor training. (In our school there is a group of older students, tutors, who tell the new students how everything works.) The thing was to imagine a park then tell it to other members of the group and compare it with what others had imagined. All senses could be used. Only thing all had to have there was so high fence that it was impossible to see over it. It was interesting to hear what other students had imagined and how different it was from my own park. In my park there were a lot of fir trees but hardly any leafy trees and all of them were birches. There were no leaves in them because it seemed to be autumn. It was quite windy and big clouds were drifting in the sky and passing the bright sun. (It was maybe early afternoon.) I was standing on a path. It was made of brown gravel. Near me was a park bench which looked quite much like this . It was just more shabby than that. I could see the fence. It was a spruce hedge. I was alone and except the sound of the wind there was quiet.

In the next part of the excercise I had to imagine a way to see through or over the fence and look what's behind it. In my spruce hedge there was a hole about the size of my head on the same level with the ground, but even I was thinking really hard there was nothing behind it. I tried everything between a forest, a cliff and a motorway but nothing fitted. I think that if someone went through that hole he or she would just disappear into thin air.

I recharged the batteries of my camera and moved the pics to the computer so a couple of pics I took during the Easter.

Allright... Back home and next to my scanner again. During the Easter holiday I almost started to miss it. Or if I didn't miss the scanner at least I missed my loudspeakers. Four days with headphones/laptops own speakers and it feels good to hear the sound of my "additional speakers" again. :D

From electronics to these pics. The first one is a bit special because I got the idea to it at night. Mostly I sleep at night, but exceptionally on Saturday I couldn't get sleep. After a few songs in my mind and some indefinite thinking in the dark I got an idea of new Sleeping Beauty. What else could a sleepless wish for than sleeping like her. I woudn't also mind that kind of "goodnight". :D

The idea of the second one came at more normal time. It's meant to be a some kind of wolf though at the beginning it was said that it's a lion.

The spring in Finland is a quite interesting thing. Sometimes snow, sometimes water. On one day you feel like boiling and on the next day you have to go and look for a warm pullover. Well...It doesn't make me feel bad. :D Moreover spring is the best time to make snow horses. Also I was told to go out to do something else than take photographs. Still I had to take the camera with me. Then we needed a lot of cousin-power and a little bit of experience in making snow horses. The result was Mr. Horse 2009:

When I'm back home again maybe I should make another horse. Or maybe not. At home I should at least scan a few drawings. I could also take a pic of them with my camera, but I don't have to hurry that much. I'll have then time to draw some more.

If we now start to grow this "I should" -list. Just to kill time: I should choose one collection of poems and one of short stories and a movie or a play for a Finnish course in school. Then I should tidy up my wardrobe, buy new pencils and make/buy a good birthday present for a good friend and...something. I'm sure I forgot some.

1.20 PM The physics lesson ended
1.28 I was on the bus stop (I missed the bus)
1.44-2.15 In library
2.30 The next bus arrives
2.47 The bus stopped to my stop
2.50 I opened my home door
2.55 I was back on the road again taking photographs
3.something I packed, put my things to the car and sat to the back seat
6.something I dropped my luggage to the entrance hall floor of my grandparents' house
7.11-? I sat on the floor with my computer

I had something more important to say, but I can't remember it anymore... Well, just off-topic: Yesterday I found Skype quite useful. A friend of mine had a birthday yesterday and that program reminded me about it in a very friendly way. So, I was saved from forgetting. :D

In the last week of this month I'm going to do the rest of the level exam 3. I have to play four songs on piano and quite well to be honest. I still have to work for it but I'm doing quite well. Now I just should practise every day. I think that the my grandparents' old harmonium(?) has to take a lot during this easter.

Those photographs then... Some of them were taken in the last weekend and some today. In the weekend I noticed again that if you haven't done something for a while then when you do you can after it feel that you have really done something. I mean in the winter I don't drive a bike very much and in the weekend I drove over 10 km on wet roads. My legs hurt several days after that. Well, this spring there will be more days like that so I think my legs will get used to it again.

I still don't know what day of week it is... Now it feels like Sunday. I also feel a bit weird because I slept a few hours in the afternoon. I think that if someone came now and said that there's a monkey outside I'd go to look at it.

Picture of the day:
I've been thinking about drawing something like that for a some time now. I thought to do it now when I wanted to try those new papers. It came out pretty good, even I realised too late that it looks a bit too much like this. I didn't want to erase it anymore so it is like that now.

Laughter of the day (or actually also some earlier day) :
Bang is just like what it looks outside. (The another song is "Takatalvi" which means that it looks like it was new winter in the middle of the spring) :D

The exam week is OVER! I feel more normal now even I at times can't remember wchich day of the week it is. But if I'm right it's Friday tomorrow. :D Now when I don't have to go through this for six weeks I could use the coming weekend with a more creative way. I should work with that big drawing at least a bit. Moreover I bought today some special paper for marker pen and a thick drawing pad and I'd really like to try what I can do with them.

Even the exam week made me stop drawing for a while I've taken some photographs (again) because the good side of the exam week is that I'm home earlier. That means I can photograph in light what would otherwise be wasted while sitting in a lesson. Some of these pics are taken yesterday and some today.











There are now quite many pics for a one post but they are from two different sets so I can do nothing. In fact I didn't plan uploading so many of them but I took 80 pcis more in the middle of writing. I went out and my shoes got filled with snow because I didn't put them on properly. Then my hair of course got stuck to the roses...