What Sarah does when bored in Finland...she blogs

It is strange being here. In a way it is lonely because no one understands you really and everyday is spent acting happy and enthusiastic. This is probably what is most tiring everyday. But it is no one's fault. The main problem I think, is that there is actually very little for me to do at work. Being bored really drains any life juice you have. I ran two experiments over a course of three days. Both experiments could have been combined into one day and had such long wait times that for hours I was left just sitting around with nothing to do. Today is particularly bad as both my supervisors need to prepare for a trip they are making on Friday to the big city so they can not spend much time training me. I just feel like I am wasting resources (money, space, time) by being here and doing nothing. On a happier note, I will run my own experiment on Friday which should give me something to do.

So what does one do when bored out of their wits? What does Sarah do? Well, I looked up festivals that are in nearby towns with the thought that perhaps over a weekend, I might muster up the courage to travel to another city on my own. This actually took quite a bit of time because some festivals are not very well-organized so I question whether I should make the effort to actually attend. I then looked up different people I have met here, one in particular is a professional golfer, Alpo, who has lived in America playing golf for almost 40 years. But he is not very famous for a google-search resulted in no hits. I then tried to translate some finnish dialogue into english using an online dictionary. That was interesting and actually quite difficult really. The Finnish language has suffixes on the words that confuses the dictionary because you are supposed to only look up the root word. Finding the root word is difficult for any foreigner. I then flipped through my planner seeing what things I would like to do this weekend: cook something perhaps? Or maybe I can go for a swim?

Anyway, you get the idea, I sure hope I get more to do soon! As you can tell from this blog, I am going bonkers!