February

So it's February now, and It's getting lighter and lighter outside here.  Every day we get about 5 minutes more sunlight, so it's slowly changing.  It's been snowing a lot lately though.  Apparently we've gotten more snow in the past couple weeks than is usual, so that's been interesting.  I've been working a decent amount lately, mostly just doing editing of the English text on the website and a little bit of translating.  Haven't started editing yet, but hopefully will in the next week or so. 
So I finally got a new bike, and this one's much better.  It's a good size, and even has 3 working gears, so that's nice, especially since there are a couple of hills between the dorms and the city center.  The only issue now though is that the sidewalks constantly have around 4-5 inches of fresh snow coating them, so I'm constantly sliding all over the place and wiping out on my bike.  Luckily though, what with all of the layers I wear and the fresh snow, it doesn't hurt at all when you hit the ground.
I was told about a restaurant in the city center that I'm planning on going to with some other exchange students.  There you can get reindeer steaks, elk steaks, and even bear steaks, so we're planning on trying some new and interesting stuff.  I hear the bear steaks are pretty expensive though, so dunno if we'll actually get to try that one, depends on just how expensive it is. 
Oh, and I'm planning on meeting up with an American guy and a couple of Finns who are interested in American Football and watching the Super Bowl on Saturday.  Starts at like 1:30am here, so it's gonna be a late night, but I can't wait.  I hear they replace the ads with Finnish ones, so that will be disappointing, but there's always youtube for that.  Now if only I could find a way to get baby back ribs here...
I'm also planning on going snowboarding on Sunday afternoon (if I'm awake for it), so that should be a lot of fun. 
Well, that's all for now.
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