Because it is so sad...

One of "Awesome" left today. And I would lie if I'd say I don't feel nothing. She is special. Kaisu is special. And as I realized at one point of this week, these people here are not just friends. They are family. Family from different parts of the world who don't care where do you come from and don't judge you because of who you really are ...

When I came back to Padova, I realized why I love this life here. Yes, I'm not studying that much but.. Here you just feel awesome and special. After spending 2 days at home, making Kaisu's collage (tell about that later), I finally met the others on Sunday and we went to La befana. La befana is (as far as I've understood) a Veneto tradition about our three kings' day but it's more than their Christmas and saying good-bye to the last year. So on Sunday there was a huge fire at Prato della Valle, the choir was singing and all the people from Padova seemed to be there. After celebration we had our reunion dinner @Asia's place which is next to the train station. As we were eating pasta carbonara, drinking weisbier, singing and dancing again it somehow lead to pijama party so in the end me and Thorina, Kaisu as well stayed there..

On Monday came Patrick but as he had birthday on 5th, we wanted to make him a surprise birthday party. Actually it didn't go so well because he arrived earlier than we thought but still we surprised him with the balloons and pizza, so again it was pretty nice. On that day we decided to go to Miami but before in march there is going to be a trip to Tallinn and Helsinki!!!! :)

On Tuesday morning I woke up because one guy just jumped to my bed. Hei Magnus! The world traveller finally arrived. Why world traveller? As Tromsö is so far away he had to take the flights Tromsö-Oslo-Venice but as travelling never works out that way, he missed the Oslo-Venice flight so he booked a new flight to Vienna and came by the night train to Venice. As Kaisu said, I would give him the award of travelling. For sure!
But me and mia mamma Asia were good and went to italian language course where we only had 7 people but I have to say I really enjoyed it. It's always nice to talk about your vacation at home, shock the people (especially chinese) that you had -22 degrees and snow... 

As Moritz and Amaia had to arrive on the same time and I couldn't have made it to the station, I went to Ederle residence to meet them but apparently, they still would have wanted me there.. SCUSA MI :(
But finally AWESOME was cosi-cosi completed and once again we had dinner at Ederle and spritz at Cafe Madrid. Back to normal life again...

And then there was Wednesday. Kaisu's goodbye-party day. The day when I realized how much these people mean to me. In the morning me, Moritz and Patrick went to Venice to see Palazzo Ducale (Doodžide palee peaks vist eesti keeles olema). Train ticket costs now 0,05 cents more, so it's 3,55 € (OMG!) :D but I have to say I always like Venice. Anyways, Palazzo Ducale or Doge's Palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice (supreme authority) and nowadays it's used as a museum where the entrance is for 8€. We couldn't take many pictures inside because there was always a guy who told us not to do it but at least some examples I have. There are so many halls so you can truly imagine people living here and as we heard from our audioguide, the doge was actually like a prisoner in his own building. He didn't have actually any power and he couldn't leave the state.. But actually, there is a real prison downstairs. I guess you've all heard about the Bridge of Sighs- it was the last view of Venice that the prisoners saw before their imprisonment.We indeed saw it .. and sighed as well.

After the visit we tried to find the Italian flag for Kaisu, we didn't find it but eventually Belen found it in Padova, so we didn't have to hurry. Again we ate our favourite pizza and then headed back to Padova. 

At first I made garlic breads at Patrick, we did some pre-drinking, Moritz draw me unicorns and then we were ready for our awesome finnish party! :)

Now the story about collages for Kaisu.. we made a calendar, so I had to make 12 awesome collages before.. On Wednesday we were so close to get caught by her but she didn't realize it. Collages are here and I have to say I'm pretty proud with myself:

Also we wrote all our wishes on Italian flag and a mask.. and around midnight we gave it to her, singing our anthem: "Wonderwall." I'm not able to say many tears were cried in this night but I have to say they all came from the heart.

We had again girls night @Asia and we- Kaisu, me, Asia, Belen, Teresa- were up until 5.30 at least.. Next morning we had our new morning coffee- beer with pompelmo- and had our last mensa with Kaisu. In Padova there are many canteens but this one- Murialdo-I've never been before. Should go more because they offer you real Sprite, Coca etc and the food is more delicious than in the others and it's still 4€!!! :) 

In Padova there is a tradition to throw the laurea (graduator) to the fountain in Prato della Valle. We wanted to do the same with Kaisu so in case she needs clothes (of course she does) me and Moritz dropped by his place to take some. Because of the Christmas decorations there wasn't no water in Prato so we cycled again to Piazza dell'Erbe where is a little bit smaller fountain. But it will do... So there she went!

After swimming in the fountain and sharing all the fun we had we went to Ederle to drink some coffee/tea and as you can see we were pretty tired...

Meanwhile Madis let me know that they're back in Padova so me and Asia went home to see the guys and take a nap for like 5 minutes.. In the evening we had again a nice dinner (pizza/kebab) at Moritz' place. But going back home (yeah, sorry, to Asia's place) wasn't that easy. As Madis still doesn't have a bike and mamma-bambina team is so nice, we tried to ride on a carrier but.. Asia's bikes wheel folded because of the carrier and so we both fell down and we're rolling on the street laughing hard.. Scusa mamma :* Actually I have a large bruise on my thigh.. but we don't care..

Because today was the day when Kaisu left.. And it's going to happen to all of us...

Just a random song that I heard today when I left finally from the train station surroundings...