nightmare before christmas.

altaaaaa, es is verdammte kacke nochmal vier uhr morgens, und ich kann nich schlafen. dreck auch. was isn das, bitte?!?! es is hier permanent nacht, und angst davor haben, dass man wegen lärmbelästigung nich pennen kann, braucht man in finnland schonmal gar nicht zu haben [es sei denn, wir rechnen dauerbeschallung durch zeichentrickserien auf französisch mit ein. aber das ist ne komplett andere story]. unter normalen umständen würd ich mir jezz erstmal ne flasche glühwein nehmen (prost, mein hellen!), oder meinen freund, den meister (prost, mein frieda!)...oder. egal. ALKOHOL. aber datt geht nich. in 4 stunden is ja schon wieder anstalt. da ist höchstens prost mahlzeit. wenn überhaupt. scheisse, mann. ich kann doch nich die ganze nacht wach liegen und mich selbst bemitleiden. da wird man ja krank von. oh. mhh...

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wtf~it's four in the morning and i cant sleep. damn. we're in permanent night and in the country of silent people. how can anyone NOT go to sleep in these circumstances?! just thoughts going round and round in my head. mhh. yes, its great to pitty myself. and by the count of all my sleepless nights, i must have become pretty good at that. just wishing for joni m. to share that river with me.

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yes. see. i have plenty of time now...enough time to tell you a wonderful story from the land of santa and silence. see, i even do it in english so that more people get the picture of how it is like to deal with public services here. adventurous little me went to the railway station today (today as in yesterday as in..well. i havent slept yet, so practically today is still tomorrow, which makes yesterday today. get it?). since i am going to travel home on friday and had some question concerning my ticket. i wasnt willing to spend 700 euro for a return flight from/to oulu, so i am flying with my best buddies from ryanair, which, unfortunately leave from a city called tampere which, unfortunately is about 500km south of oulu, so my best (=cheapest) choice was to get there by train. now, there is one [and appearantly only one] thing that a foreign person can do in finland. it is buying an interrail ticket. anything else (including the rental of a freakin' movie!!!!) requires their social security number [yeah right, finland. as if i am going to take over this country with a single copy of charlie and the chocolate factory!!!d'oh]. anyways. here's the deal: you give them 100 euro, they let you travel on 3 days within a month...how far you can get. sounds fair. my flight is at 10, so i needed to take a nighttrain to be in tampere on time. this train is traveling an exact amount of 8 minutes on the 18th, so i created this little problem in my head. all ppl that have been doing interrail know its not a problem at all, but, having been kind of edgy during the last erm...yes, well, it never came to my mind that there might be a solution for that. so, looong blah, here's what happened after i entered the railwaystation, took a number after grannie pushed in front of me and, finnish style, waited patiently.

hi, i've got a question concerning my interrail ticket.
~yes
[blablabla see above]
~dont understand.
[embarassing attempt on my behalf to manage with the 3 finnish words i know. obviously, i screwed up]
~thule. (that means come...or in this case follow me)
so this lady takes me to the counter to the far right. the exact one i bought the ticket at and the one i've been trying to avoid ever since because there's a pretty p'd off lady sitting behind it. and...there she was again. always nice meeting old friends.
hello, i am wondering, which counter is the right one to go to in general?
~ ---
erm. yes. because, i took a normal number, and i was over there and now i am here again...
~not all speak english.
yes, but i also speak swedish. or german or...arent they supposed to speak...
~*headshake*.
ok, so do i get a special number or where do i go?
~ *pissed off look*
well. mh. ok. so..here's my problem: [blabla]
~ *opens my ticket, points at a sentence* here. *pissed off look over my shoulder to "greet" next customer.
uh huh. well. erm. that was easy. mhh...fu..i mean thank you very much ...

yesss. its just so easy to feel at home here. gorgeous.