Frustrating things...

So today I went to KELA (Finnish health insurance department) to get an appliance-paper for some social benefits. I had to wait in line just because their homepage was stupid enough not to give it to me. And here in Pietarsaari their office is quite shabby and the employees too few.

Then I went to my normal insurance company to get a travel insurance (the school needs it). But they just told me a lot of crap and didn't listen to anything I told them. They just complicated things, so I went away real angry and frustrated. I won't ever buy any insurance from them, that's for sure. They made me look like I didn't know what I was talking about, even though it was the other way around.

On top of all, a car almost hit me and my friend on our hunt for all kinds of stuff around town. But it was mainly the insurance company's fault, since they send me to get some more information about my move (but since I already knew all of that it was quite unnecessary).

The only nice person who really helped me was at the magistraten and she implied how stupid those i-companies are, since they don't seem to get that you can be a citizen in Finland still and get all benefits even though you're studying in a foreign country.

I will write KELA and the i-company some feedback, and boy it won't be good ones!

But I think stuff are working out, and that I will be ready to head to Helsinki on Tuesday morning! The same day I will have lunch at my "old" school and meet some of my classmates, which I really look forward to! Just being in Helsinki will be fun, since it is my favorite town. Along with Frankfurt, Stockholm and London.

Tomorrow they have the traditional Spotlight event in Pietarsaari and it will be the last evening with my girls for a very loooong time. I hate to say goodbye, even though it's not forever. But still... I'm really blessed with great friends(older and newer), and especially when you move away from each other you realise how hard it is to be as comfy with new friends as with old ones you've known for many years. That doesn't mean that you can't find new good friends, but friendship is always a process!

Problem of the week: How to get your cat to swallow the whole dose of it's oral antibiotics-fluid when it's so smart that it won't eat any food that smells like it and spits it out the second it gets it in its mouth????

Book of the week: Right now I'm reading Ian McEwan: Atonement. It is as good as the movie so far (have about half of it left), and really complex by showing all people's perspective on the story. The library-scene from the movie is at least as intense in the book too ;)