I'm sorry I have not been posting so frequently, I've been busy with new additions to my life. Welcome to another adventure in the life of James in Finland, I would like to tell you about the newest change in my life...(mom don't kill me) I recently pierced both my ears with 14 carrot diamond earings...just kidding! there not 14 carrot... but seriously, I did pierce them, with something a bit smaller. One day on our adventures through downtown Jyvaskyla, I decided that I was finally going to get my ears pierced...call me crazy! but I did it. We went to this little shop in the middle of the downtown mall which consisted of 1 small curtain (with what looked like a dentist chair behind it) and 2 employees (whom were pierced from head to toe), I said, "This looks promising,". We asked the man (pierced from head to toe) how much it would cost to get both my ear's pierced, he said "30 euro, and what kind of earing would you like in them?", he pointed to 2 possibilities, I turned to Andrew, Luke, and Taylor (Lukkes's girlfriend) and said, "Wow, I have a lot of choices!" the two choices were a small pair of cubic circonium earings? And a pair of metal balls, (I don't want to be a punk rocker) "I'll take the two diamond ones please,". He then took me to the dentist chair behind the single curtain (I HATE THE DENTIST) and gave me a cleaning and care brochure for my new investments, it was all in Finnish, WONDERFUL! I'm very grateful, however, that he spoke pretty good english and so he explained MOST of what I needed to know...I guess. So he marked my ears up with a marker and pierced them, pretty simple procedure, until he rattles me by asking (with a straight face and in all seriousness) if I wanted my nipples pierced. "Um.." I replied, "Maybe next time?". Are you kidding me???? Who do you take me for???
I was lookin good sportin my new "bling" as we youngsters call it, smooth sailing from here! Or so I thought....
As most of you may know, if you have your ears pierced and you play sports most of the time you need to tape them up (especially if you play a sport with a helmet). Well, James did not really think about that or consider that "hey, maybe I play a sport that uses helmets which are constantly coming on and off and mostly used as ramming devices to hurt other people...." my 2nd practice with them on, one of them came out and me, Taylor and my coach went on panic mode. Coach started with "that's not good" Taylor said "James! come here let me fix it" and I replied with "Am I going to die?". Neeedless to say when I took off my helmet the back of my left earing came off and out into the turf with it, never to be seen again. Taylor and my coach worked intently to tape the backside and the other ear for the rest of practice. The aftermath of this incident could not be more humiliating, I spent the last 2 DAYS with a large piece of black athletic tape covering most of my left ear and the entire team, city (and every girl in it) staring at me like I had just faught Mike Tyson and was about to win until he bit my ear off...thanks alot Mike....
Stay tuned for next weeks blog where I will dicuss more additions to my life along with the experience that comes with them....
Finballer 1
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