Hi everyone! :)
Today I finally decided to sum up all this year's events - thanks to
Ksu for the idea :) Last time I did it in 2009, when I didn't have this blog, just a personal one, and then half of the events was related to F1. Today I'll try not to write much about it :D So...
January.
This year I finally started outside Latvia - in
Tallinn, and first day of the year I also spent in Estonia, this time - in Rakvere :) Of course, then I had the craziest session in my life at university with many hard exams (like biochemistry), but, as I'm an optimist, I passed everything. And I was crazy enough to buy a ticket to Nightwish concert in Helsinki! Finally
visited a zoo, was at Evita's
birthday party and met many new friends, and our Team Drosera got to the finals of world's Biomimicry Design Challenge.
February.
This was a month of traditions - I went to Jelgava to see
ice sculptures, as I do it every year, and me & my girls also went to many
parties, as we usually do it in winter. For the first time I was at some
Latvian TV show to support my friend Linda (before I just sat in the audience, doing nothing). And event of the month (maybe even of the year) - our biomimicry team got
2nd place in 2011 Biomimicry Design Challenge! I never thought something like this could ever be a reality!
March.
It wouldn't be an interesting month at all, but everything was decided in January - and in March I went to Helsinki to make one of my dreams (
seeing Nightwish live) come true. In Finland I met two awesome girls I knew before just through our blogs -
Katja and
Ksu, and also Katja's husband :) One more event - F1 season started finally, and Kimi Raikkonen joined Lotus F1 team, so I became much crazier about F1 than in previous years ^^ And I bought myself an mp3 player I wanted for a long time.
April.
The month was crazy, as I was dealing with my course work, but also full of events. We
celebrated Easter and I had some holidays finally, tried Ksu's strange recipe of
dumpling soup, started my velo-season and followed one more tradition - went to take
photos of windflowers (and for the first time I climbed up such a high and unstable tower) ^^ And on last day of April me and Dad saw
Jackie Chan in Jelgava - one more thing I never thought would come true sometimes :D
May.
As always, this month is full of learning and nothing else, but I finally wrote and answered my course work (which is a big event) and did many other things for university that seemed unreal. And it was a month of
hockey - of course, I hoped that Finland will win again, but they were just 4th... And I was at the
zoo one more time, as we had a lecture there and also at botanical garden :)
June.
First two weeks I spent sleeping, and then started my planned trips around Latvia by my bike - this time I drove from
Valmiera to Cēsis. The nature and cities are beautiful, but roads are for better sportsmen than me :D I also was in Roja finally (last time I was there in 2009), went to my friends graduation (they got bachelor's degree) and
celebrated Jāņi with girls from my school, as always :)
July.
It was the month that I didn't spend at home at all - maybe just 2 or 3 nights :D First we had a
field practice in Taurene with my biologists for two weeks - even though we had to learn there, we spent a wonderful time, drinking milk, eating strawberries, petting bats and running around with GPS or watching birds. And I discovered many new places, as I went there by my bike ^^ Then I celebrated Sea & Fishermen festival in Roja with my friends and family and went to
Helsinki to meet Katja once again and see Finnish nature and other places I haven't been to ^^
August.
It also started not at home, as I went to
one more field practice with my biologists - this time at Kolka ^^ I spent there 1,5 weeks, we saw many other places, not just Kolka, and some of us helped to organize Insects Night once again. My friend Žanete turned 21, so me and my friends from school went to Sigulda to celebrate it, some days after had a
bike trip to Garciems and went to Brainstorm concert. And I did one more thing I wanted - went to Bolderāja by my bike, setting a personal record -
63,27 km in one day :) I was at
Roja once again, collected some data for my bachelor's work with my teacher, went mushrooming and was at the zoo for the third time to see
Gentoo penguins ^^
September.
New study year I started at Kolka, as every year there is an event Night on the Cape for 1st course, and we organized everything and had some fun, of course :) I was at the zoo once again at the
Giraffe Day :D Lectures started at university, so there were
many things related to them - going to zoo once again (:D), going to botanical garden, going to the forest to pick mushrooms... Went to Daugavgrīva Fortress once again by my bike, took part in a Latvian TV show `Precamies`, worked at mushroom exhibition at Museum of Nature and met Latvian racing driver Haralds Šlēgelmilhs ^^
October.
Finally I started attending Finnish language courses I wanted for such a long time ^^ Of course, continued driving around by my bike, taking photos of
awesome fog,
sailing ship `Mir` and birds,
lake Baltezers (one more thing from my `must go there by my bike` list) and many other things. Was at many great parties like Biologist Night, and celebrated my 21st birthday with so many people and great events I couldn't even dream of :) And took part in this years Biomimicry Design Challenge. And got
first snow ^^
November.
It also wasn't an interesting month, so I tried to remember,
how to draw and started writing about my
previous trips here :) Followed a tradition of visiting
Candle Night at the graveyard and had some great parties again. The show I took part at was
finally shown on TV, Kimi Raikkonen won his first F1 race after his comeback, I finished my Finnish language courses and got 1st level and also F1 season finished finally, with Sebastian Vettel becoming a world champion once again :)
December.
Last month of the year started with taking part in a movie about economics of Latvia, that was filmed in my faculty. I got a Christmas card from Ksu and it
started snowing finally here, almost all month was full with snow ^^ And I was at two Christmas balls - first with my friends from school, then with friends from university, finally had a chance to dance ^^ I also bought myself a Christmas present - long awaited Nokia N9. At Christmas I visited my grandma, then took
photos of Christmas trees and yesterday went ice skating with my friends (post about it coming soon). And that's all, I guess ^^
And some more things to sum up.
- Wish of the year: To become crazier and not to be afraid of meeting unknown people - done :)
- Band of the year: Ensiferum - didn't listen to them before and it was my mistake.
- Album of the year: Nightwish - Imaginaerum - I don't care that it was released last year, every song from it reminds me of something awesome this year ^^
- Song of the year: Nightwish - Escapist.
- Place of the year: Riga zoo, I guess, I was there 5 times :D
- City of the year: Helsinki ^^
- Book of the year: Jules Vernes `The Mysterious Island`. It couldn't be any other book.
- Person of the year: Kimi Raikkonen ^^ This year he proved once again that he's awesome :)
- Colour of the year: black.
- Extreme of the year: climbing up the tower for monitoring forest fires.
- Food of the year: our special field practice soup (from everything you can find) :D
- Movie of the year: I will name `Hobbit`, even though I haven't seen it yet.
- Feeling of the year: happiness when wishes come true ^^
- Language of the year: Finnish ^^
- Best month of the year: July and August, I couldn't choose one.
- Tradition of the year: girls evenings at folk club `Ala`.
- Gift of the year: mobile phone ^^
- Goal of the year: to drive more than 1000 km on my bike. I did 1117 km this year ^^
I guess, my year was quite good :) So, what was yours? ^^
Have fun and take care in 2013! :))
First interesting thing about this trip was that we didn't go to Estonia by bus this time, but by Scania truck :D While we were waiting for the car (it was about 2 a.m.) we were standing in the forest singing Latvian songs, but soon the driver collected us and at about 7 a.m. we were in Tallinn already. As Katja and Henri came a bit later, we had some time to walk around the city and collect some caches :)
