Kerron aina omin sanoin Idasta, mutta nyt on Idan vuoro kertoa itsestään ja siitä mitä minusta ja koko ystävyydestämme ajattelee. Olen tottunut Idan tyyliin ja viikon ajan hän on kirjottanut tekstiä ajatuksistaan. Teksti on tietysti englanniksi, mutta voin tehdä tulevaisuudessa käännöksen tänne.
Nyt kuitenkin antaa Idan kirjoittaa:
Jenni smiles, because she has absolutely no idea
what’s going on!
When Jenni asked me if I wanted to write something on
her blog about her, I said “Yes, of course!” So why haven’t I done it until
now? Because there are so many things to say about her, that I didn’t know
where to start. And so I think this text will be as messy and confusing as she
is...
The first time I met Jenni, she was trying to talk all
the time (of course!), but didn’t really find the right words in English. So
then it was me who was smiling because I had no idea what was going on! ;) And
yeah, this was before we developed this weird mind reading and our own language
that we use now to communicate.
Anyway. The first time we met each other, we went down
town for some shopping with a big group of German au pairs. I and the German
girls lost Jenni for a short while, and then she came back with her hands full
of high heels. When I am about to buy a new pair of shoes, I have been thinking
about it before I go shopping. I search for hours after the right shoes. I try
the shoes for one hour to see if they really are the right shoes. Then I put the
shoes back because I have to have another look around if these really are the
right shoes, or if there possibly are another pair of shoes that are even
better than these ones. So that’s a lot of time for one pair of shoes. Back to
Jenni. She bought two (or three?) pair of high heels in less than 5 minutes.
That was when I knew it for the first time – this girl is crazy!
A few days later I had it confirmed that she really is
crazy. This was our first night out together. Both of us wanted to save some
money and decided to go to SPAR to buy some drinks. We bought a bottle of
Woo-Woo (never again!!) and a couple of Smirnoff bottles. “Ok, so we’re not
allowed to drink in public. Where do we go? What the hell, let’s sit down up on
the big statue, in the middle of the road over there!” And this was the
beginning of The Stupid Scandinavian Girls. So we brought our drinks and
climbed up on the O’Connell Monument in the middle of Dublin’s biggest street
O’Connell Street. And then we realized that none of us had a bottle opener.
Jenni stands up, trying to open it on an edge of the statue. I’m trying with my
keys. We got disturbed when a bus stops in front of us. The bus driver turns
down his window. Jenni and I expect that he was gonna say something like “It’s
illegal to drink in public, you stupid Scandinavian girls!”. But instead he was
laughing so hard and said “Do you need any help, girls?” By then we knew two things
– 1. Irish people really are as nice and funny as people say. 2. Irish guys
love Scandinavian girls
Because how many times haven’t we had this scenario in
the pubs. Irish guys obviously have a thing for Scandinavian girls (next Friday
we are gonna find out why). They talk, Jenni smiles. They ask her a question,
she smiles and nods and then she says “OR WHAT?” I ask Jenni “Did you
understand at all what he just said?” And she answers “NO!” So when I found the
cup I gave her for her birthday “I smile because I have absolutely no idea
what’s going on”, I just had to buy it!
The first weeks I had to listen to a lot of: Ida, I
want a face painting! Ida, I neeeeed chocolate! Ida, I want a Dublin hoodie!
Ida, I want a green hat! Ida Ida Ida, pleeeeease! By this time I became Jenni’s
second mum. Every day we had conversations about patience, how you can’t have
everything you want, that you have to save money and that you sometimes have to
do boring things. But to be honest, this is Jenni’s funniest side. She gets
obsessed with everything and when she has made up her mind, it is happening.
Nothing can stop her! Her mission right now is to find Yoda. Not just any kind
of Yoda, it has to be a big, soft Yoda...
We are soooo different compared to each other. She is
fast - I am slow. She is obsessed with Star Wars, Lord of the rings and all
other fantasy things – I haven’t even seen the movies. She talks (a lot!) – I talk
like a normal person (hah!) We have asked ourselves if we would be friends if
we would have met each other somewhere else. Probably not. But I think these
opposites are what make our friendship so fun! But of course we have a lot of
things in common as well. Like the non existing navigation ability. We get lost
ALL the time. Or the ability to push out our stomachs so we look pregnant –
very useful!? We always think of food and chocolate.
She is one of them who I can say anything too and
really be myself with. She doesn’t judge if I say something stupid (because
she’s afraid I will judge her when she says something stupid, which means most
of the time haha <3 )
Now I can’t believe that we might not see each other
every day anymore... The thought of that makes me so sad. But what also makes
me sad is to see you sad. So if you are happy, I’m happy! You know I love you,
my stupid Scandinavian girl <3
Minä!: I cry so much when i read you're text Ida! I remember so funny things what we have done together and I really am so happy that I have you here with me<3 Thanks to you I have so much better English now and thanks to you I never need to be alone if i'm sad. You are so important to me. Everything is so much nicer together. I love you Ida, thank you <3
Tää Idan kirjoitus nosti niin tunteet pintaan. Kaikki se positiivinen mitä täällä koen ja nään tapahtuu suurimmaksi osaksi yhdessä Idan kanssa. Tietysti pojat ovat ihania ja olen todella kiintynyt pikkuisiin apinoihini, mutta ne henkeäsalpaavat, kauniit, pelottavat ja unohtumattomat hetket olen kokenut Idan kanssa. Kaikki muistot näiltä kolmelta kuukaudelta nyt vaan tulvii yli mun mielessä. Tiedän, että ihmissuihteita on hirveän vaikea pitää yllä (Varsinkin kun ei edes asuta samassa maassa.) ollaan kuitenkin luvattu toisillemme, että me pidetään yhteyttä. Idan vaan täytyy yksinkertaisesti vaan kestää mua loppuelämänsä ;)
Tällästä täällä tänään. Näin joulun aikaan tulee olemaan muitakin vähän erilaisia postauksia niinkuin Idakin vähän tuolla paljasti saatte kuulla vähän irkku miestin pohdintoja seuraavien viikkojen sisällä.
Muutenkin joulu on juhlan aikaa joten oottakaa vaan, Dublinissa räjähtää!
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