The last couple days I have been utterly exhausted, and the pain in my legs is not helping. All I want to do is sleep. It is frustrating and I feel very unproductive. My Finnish is improving slowly, but tomorrow starts my Finnish classes and I am looking forward to that. I haven't quite mastered the timing on the metro yet, so today I ended up getting to Kirkkonummi a half an hour early. To kill time I wandered around the town for awhile, just looking for a place to sit or have a cup of tea. Then I saw it… A Finnish thrift shop! I don't know why this made me so excited, but it did. I went in and wandered around for the time remaining before rehearsal. It was small, but cute, and I had fun checking out all the strange things they had in there. I am going to continue going to choir, even if I don't make any friends there, just so I can go to that thrift shop every week. Hopefully soon the people in the choir will stop staring at me like I'm a mysterious, wild animal and actually talk to me when I talk to them. I wore my new sunglasses today and I felt like a badass as I walked around alone. I have had the realization that here I don't have an image. I can be whoever I want to be. I want to be unapologetic about how I look, and I want to stop caring what others think of me. The freedom to be myself and remake who I am is a really refreshing feeling, and I am loving it.