1500 squid raised!

Thanks to Sean (the artist formerly known as Noam), and Neil for the latest sponsorships.
We've finally hit the 1500 mark!!!
Let's not stop there, though. Every penny that you sponsor me goes directly to Cancer Research UK, a very very deserving cause. Click here to build that tally up.

I'm without proper internet access for the time being. At the moment I'm in the city's public library, where other foreigners like me are all watching me and waiting for me to vacate the computer after my short designated time.

Just to let you know, though, that I'm still alive and kicking in Helsinki. The weather's beautiful, the city's beautiful, and I'm still beautiful.

I got busted on the tube this morning for not having a ticket. They took me to a police station, but there wasn't much they could do to me as I wasn't carrying my passport.
My host, Christopher, is an American language student who speaks fluently 17 languages. 17! A lot of them are tongues that you and I haven't even heard of. Minority languages of central parts of Russia, mainly.
A really interesting and intelligent guy who also makes a mean bowl of porridge in the morning.

There's just one small problem....
He doesn't have any matress, couch, blankets, a pillow, or anything of the like. Last night I first tried sleeping on one of those inflatable lilos that you use at the beach. When that didn't work, I tried sleeping on a mat on the wooden floor.
Needless to say, I didn't have much success falling asleep, and today my back is killing. But, hey, what can you do?
Better to have a good host and a wooden floor, than a bad host with a nice bed.
Also, living quite far outside of the city makes things a bit difficult just because I'm going to have to take the tube every day without a ticket, but that's another thing I can live with.

That's all I've got time to tell you for now...............