The Last Of Tallin. I Promise. For A While Anyhow. 

Amsterdam in April. It was very grey so made it even more so. 

What an inspiring speech! "If not me, who?" #emmawatson #ifnotmewho #UN #genderequality

Lisbon and the Tagus river! 

Tomorrow #pausini20th

Non english songs in ESC2018

This year we can feel Salvado’s affect since we have over double amount of original languages compared to last year. Some have released English versions such as France, Greece but still kept their Eurovision performance in an original language. The songs offer more authentic sounds, they all bring so much diversity, color to this year’s competition! People have really digged up their past and cultural heritage. Hope this will continue next year also! 

ALBANIA - EUGENT BUSHPEPA - MALL (1st Semifinal)

ARMENIA - SEVAK KHANAGYAN - QAMI (1st semifinal)

ESTONIA - ELINA NECHAYEVA - LA FORZA (1st semifinal)

FRANCE - MADAMEMONSIEUR - MERCY 

GEORGIA - ETHNO / JAZZ BAND IRIAO - FOR YOU (2nd semifinal)

GREECE - YIANNA TERZI - ONIRO MOU (1st semifinal)

HUNGARY - AWS - VISLÁT NYÁR (2nd semifinal)

ITALY - ERMAL META E FABRIZIO MORO - NON MI AVETE FATTO NIENTE

MONTENEGRO - VANJA RADOVANOVIC - INJE (2nd semifinal)

PORTUGAL - CLÁUDIA PASCOAL - O JARDIM 

SERBIA - SANJA LLIC & BALKANIKA - NOVA DECA (2nd semifinal)

SLOVENIA - LEA SIRK - HVALA, NE (2nd semifinal)

Lisbon before covid-19

I don't ask for anything more than what I already have

Great news!! I've nailed a trainee job! Two actually!

The first is Gallery Gora, an art gallery in downtown of Mtl which does all kind of event planning from wedding to corporative events. http://www.gallerygora.com/

Already done a couple of shifts there and I’m really loving it! It’s just what I’ve always wanted and been studing for all these years. Reminded me of the work I used to do at Sibeliushall, the local congress center of my hometown, a few years ago when I was an intern there. Preparing the spaces, detailing and customer service and that sort of thing. Unfortunately they cannot offer me full time position.

(Gallery Gora)

But luckily I found a hostel in Plateau, which is this super-cool French area nearby, where I’ll be starting on Sunday. My main working area will be at the reception but the manager was willing to show me some management stuff as well. I’m super-excited about that too!

http://www.hostelmontreal.com/plateau/index.php/en/

In both places I'll be working for free but I don't really mind. In my experience you can get better job opportunities when you're flexible with the salary. And I do get a free meal in both places which is cool. And thanks to my savings and Finnish Social Insurance institution I'll be financially fine. 

So far my future here in Montreal is safe until Christmas and after that I have to get a real job in which I’d get actually paid for.. but with this networking I’m not worried about finding a job in January.

(Gallery Gora, office)

I'm so happy and relieved after all the weeks of looking for a suitable trainee job and the fear of not finding it here. Also I didn’t expect to find an event related job. How lucky am I! I’m gaining so much many-sided working experience with these next few months! And it’s not like I’ll be working like crazy. It’s only like 30h/week or so. Having two jobs needs just a bit of organization with the shifts, that’s all.

I know that millions of things can still go wrong but at this very moment I don’t ask for anything more than what I have cause all of this, living up here and these professional opportunities are everything that I've always dreamed of. 

More Cabo da Roca and Praia da Ursa

My favourite tv show Heartbeat and one of my favourite characters, Claude Greengrass... I’m so sad to hear the actor Bill Maynard gone. RIP

Oriente train station in Lisbon. Couldn’t decide in which colour I like it more...