Spent A Couple A Of Days In Tampere, One My Favourite Cities In Finland, With My Camera And A Good Friend..

Canadian Photographer Captures Wanderlust In Magnificent Landscapes

Elizabeth Gadd is a self-taught 21-year-old photographer from Vancouver, Canada. Her signature style is to photograph wanderers and adventurers in magnificent landscapes. Having been raised in scenic surroundings with mountains, forests and fields, she loves to wander and explore.

Time is a Purchase

Allô!

How people do this five-days-working-week I'll never know! Been super busy again.. Pics aren't really great since they aren't mine but haven't had the time to go through the ones in my camera yet... #nextpostpromise

At work things are going well. Obviously since I haven't had the time to write this post earlier. Still tons of things I don’t know… but within time I guess. Despite of the fact that I’m on call employee shifts have been coming in every day Mon-Fri almost for two weeks now which I’m super happy and relieved about. The shifts vary between 7AM to midnight. But I have nothing against that cause I’m used to not to have a nine-to-five job. The change suits me.

Done a lot of just basic game testing but also some translations. Both have their pro’s and cons. But the coolest or the nicest thing at this job has nothing to do with the video games but with the people who work there.  Even being one of the hundreds of employees I can still feel like being a part of a team. People are super friendly and helpful and even thou they might not remember your name but they say hello to you while passing by and ask how you’re doing or which project you’re working on now.  Gotta say that, one of the best working atmospheres I’ve ever worked in. So far. 

There are obviously a lot of Canadians/quebecois but also people from all over the globe. Making friends happens pretty naturally. English is used more as a “working language” but French is terribly common too. So far I’ve been the only Finn in the house but there should be a couple of more starting soon which is nice as long as that doesn’t affect on my working hours. Hoping that the things keep on going the way they have so far.

(Tubing!! - Pic from VisitezMTL)

Meanwhile when I haven’t been working, I’ve been doing all sorts of super fun canadian winter activities which could easily be finnish winter activities too I guess. So far been on a ferris wheel, eaten maple-syrup-taffy-pops (check the pic in my previous post), done tubing and skating which the later was the first time for a decade! And I did not even fall! Winter outdoor stuff has been more fun than what I remembered. Those of you reading this and being afraid of northern winter weather, I can assure you that the snow and cold have their moments! As long as you dress up properly.  

Also despite of my lack-of-enthusiasm for ice hockey I dared to go out and watch the match CanVSFin. I gotta admit that there was a quite nice and inspiring atmosphere. Three finnish girls against the entire sport bar full of canadians. Finland didn’t win but I still had a great time and the closest experience I think I’ll ever get to the canadian-hockey-mania. #mtlmoments

(Damn..... )

For the first time during my stay here in Montréal, I finally feel like I belong in somewhere and that I’m a part of something. That my existence matters for someone or something.  I’m so glad that after all the struggles I was stubborn (read: crazy) enough to stick around and be patient. Not that I’ve been having the crappiest time of all, over here but everything feels quite right at the moment.

Even at the gallery where I popped in last Saturday for helping out with a short event, people were like “Where have you been??” since I hadn’t been in for three weeks. This feeling is a result of perfect combination of going to a work you enjoy going to and having great friends to enjoy all the fabulous things this city has to offer. And I know that there must be people out there, reading this and thinking that she must have found a boyfriend… but noup. I’m perfectly happy without one. In my opinion, there are lots of great things in life that don’t include a man. #justsaying

(Pic from VisitezMTL) 

Speaking of.. all the fabulous things that MTL offers.  Montréal en Lumière (in light) is one of the most praised events in the city. It’s been going on now for a week and its program includes everything from performing arts, gastronomy to free outdoor activities that will all culminate to La Nuit Blanche this Saturday. “The white night” will be an entire night filled with awesome activites, many of them free, all over the city – it’s seriously difficult to choose where to go! Pure AWESOMENESS!! http://www.montrealenlumiere.com/nuit-blanche-en/

I don’t know which one I’m more excited about, La Nuit Blanche this Saturday or Laura Pausini concert (this time I'm really going!) almost one week from now, which the later one I’ve decided to go after all! #futureMTLmoments

When in Porto: tons of history at every where you look, cute streets and even cuter doors even though not as colourful as in Lisboa but cheerful anyhow! The famous book store, the river landscapes... I just scratched the surface so have to go back again! Especially since I didn’t have Francesinha or Port wine which are the local delicacies (I know I’m a criminal!)

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you VISIT, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.

Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood

Random shots, many faces of Lisbon. 

Less known Lisboa. Monsanto park and Marvila. Worth stepping out of your normal path. 

These Coruña shots never end... 

Happy Independence day Finland! 

The soundtrack of my posts:

The lyrics and songs which I used as titles for my posts. Not in the order as they came out here in the blog. Some of them are my all time favourite but others just have wise thoughts or words I wanted to use. #pausini

01. Benvenuto LIVE

02. Limpido WITH KYLIE MINOGUE

03. La geografia del mio cammino LIVE

04. Tu cosa sogni?

05. Se non te LIVE

06. Bastava

07. Bellissimo cosí

08. Dove resto solo io LIVE

09. Mi tengo

10. Il mio beneficio

11. It's not goodbye 2013 VERSION

12. Le cose che non mi aspetto

13. She - uguale a lei

14. Nel modo piú sincero che c'é

15. Mi perspectiva

16. Celeste

17. Primavera in anticipo/ It is my song LIVE