Enjoying autumn in Finland

I love autumn in Finland. Not when it's grey and wet and boring in the early winter, but when it's an early autumn and the weather is getting cooler and the leaves in trees are yellow and orange and red. I also like the rain sometimes when it's not windy. I want to enjoy autumn here before I go away and that's why I've been hoping that the weather would get a bit colder soon. I love it when the sun is shining but it's not too hot anymore. When I go to Australia it'll be hot anyway so I don't care if it starts snowing here some day soon! But I don't think I'll see any snow before I go.

Actually I haven't seen winter in Finland for a long time because last winter I lived in the UK and the year before that I only saw half of the winter time here. But last winter in England was just like in Finland really because it snowed that much. The difference was that in England it only last for a little while but nothing was normal while there was snow on the ground. I thought it was very nice and normal but to the local people it was a disaster. Trains didn't go normally and many airports were closed but I still managed to go to Dublin with my friend!

I'm getting a bit scared about going to Australia because it feels like it happens too soon and I don't know if everything's going to go well when I get there. I could just stay in Finland and work for a few more months and save more money... But I'm also excited and I hope I don't want to come back home after a couple of weeks!

One of the reasons why I'm quite nervous when I think of going to Australia is that it's full of big, dangerous and horrible spiders! The problem is that I hate spiders, all of them, any size and any colour. I hate them very much and I don't care how big or small they are, I just can't stand spiders. Okay, the smallest ones are okay but if it's bigger than 0,5 cm I hate it. In Finland I get a heart attack when I see a "normal size spider" inside a house, so in Australia I'll definitely die when I see spiders as big as a dinner plate!

I've heard stories when somebody has woken up at night with a huge spider next to them. If that happens to me, I don't know what I'll do. It's just too horrible to think of.

Now my suitcase is packed again because I'm going to England tomorrow! I'm so excited! I miss everything there so much that probably I don't want to come back home after one week. It's lovely to go back to those places where I spent so much time during the 1,5 years.

I thought I wouldn't need many things to take with me but my suitcase seems to be quite heavy again... And the weight limit on the plane is 15 kg. How am I supposed to do shopping without the weight being more than 15 kg when I come back? I also left some clothes and other things in England when I moved away because I couldn't take them all with me. So I have to have some space for those things in my suitcase too.

So anyway, I'm really going to enjoy my week in the UK!