Oh man is there a lot to read here or what? Well, I might as well add my own story then
My name is Silja (and my middle name is Katrina for that matter) and I'm 17 years old. Currently I'm studying my second year in secondary school here in Belgium as an exchange student, but my real home is in Finland. I really miss everything back at home right now, but I also get to go home next Friday over the Christmas holiday so yay!
Here in Belgium I live in a castle, Château d'Argenteuil in Waterloo and back at home I live in this small village on the western coast of Finland called Maalahti. Here I live with 29 Swedes, one Norwegian girl and a Danish guy plus three families with kids (fun huh? I have my own, large, room though) and at home I live with mom and dad, our dog Pumpuli (Revo, our other dog passed away a couple of weeks ago

) and my two small lovebirds. I have two half-siblings but I hardly ever meet them anyway, they're double my age as well.
I think I complain a lot sometimes but otherwise I think I am very humoristic and funny. Also, I always try to see the good in people and avoid having prejudice against others because that's what I hate the most myself.
I also believe I have a split personality because at home I can be the most messy and rude person ever, but when I'm not at home people always tell my parents that I am such an angel, organized and kind etc.

I guess they'll just have to live with that.
I am religious in the aspect that I believe in a God who loves me etc. etc. But I might as well tell you that I'm not a member of the Christian church, I'm not a Muslim, Jew or anything else. I believe in the individual faith and how love and truthfulness will lead the way. Alright, enough about that.
Music is a huge part of my life and I don't think I could live without it. I am told that I have a wonderful voice and I surely hope people aren't lying to be

lol. I am in the very famous school choir, United Voices, and at the moment we have lots of Christmas concerts to hold and attend to... and we get paid! Ha!
Then regarding my future plans, well, the fact is they make me all dizzy. I'm totally lost and don't know what I could do or become. I have a talent in languages, then again I have thought about working with marine mammals and such as well. Working in the media would be great too, working at a radio station or something for example. I'll just have to wait and see, but it doesn't exactly help that everyone's on my case trying to make me take some serious decisions. Oh and sometimes I've thought about opening my own café somewhere too, with an American 70' feel to it, but I think that is just far off dreaming for the moment.
I don't have that many good friends, but I do like some really much. Mom has really been like my best friend all my life anyway, so I have never needed anything else. And now that I'm here in Belgium for a year on my own I just grow more independent than I've been before which is good.
You might also notice that I love role-playing, if you look at the huge load of text that I have written so far... Oh and some of you might have noticed that I also have my own set-request board here at ppt, I really like designing small graphic things, that includes my website.... just a bit more!
Back to the language thing; I speak Finnish, Swedish and English and right now as I'm in Belgium I'm really trying to advance in French and things have gone well so far
And the current status of me? Well, still single, not really looking.. as if anyone cares. Oh and today my heart jumped out of its rhythm for almost two hours so I'm not sure if it's something serious or not but I'll have it checked in two weeks.
Okay *zips it*