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Well hi! I'm Julia, living in Finland, city called Jyväskylä. I like it here, sometimes. Sometimes I just wish I could be elsewhere. :D I'm going to be exchange student next year! Yes, you heard right. I'm going to België aka Belgium Flanders. They speak Flemish there (which is Dutch, but with...
I woke up too late to get the hotel breakfast this morning, so I had breakfast two minutes walk away, on the quay side of the harbour. When I saw that there was a stall selling deep fried herring I was very, very glad I’d missed the hotel breakfast. I love herring and so I was really excited about...
State Sanctioned I swipe my hand past the scanner. The mechanized box-- plugged into the wall, the wall into a grid, the grid into the network-- lights up from black. White light shines on my hand and a spinning gear whirs. With a click, the door opens. My door. To my house. Mine and everyone...
Finally the Mexican Embassy here truly put a programme together for Independence Day, and there was a whole week of activities last week related to Mexico and Mexican culture. They did have the traditional reception for the Mexican community here, but there was also a piano concert, exhibitions of...
Ленинград (Leningrad) are a Russian ska band that I knew previously, and visited Helsinki a month ago. The gig was excellent, as you can see below, even if I didn't understand a word.
Continued from the previous post. ...religious extremism can only be effectively countered by genuine religiosity. Senseless violence is a sign of the absence of people of God not the presence of same. Whether it's suicide bombers, mass murderers or the "religious police" you will find in every...
Must admit I'm feeling a bit taken aback by the news of the shooting in the western Finland town of Kauhajoki. It was only about 10 months ago that there was a similar incident in the small town of Jokela, and it looks like this latest incident has prompted the Finnish Parliament to start examining...
17.9.2008 Good news, The video for PushForChange campaign has finally been launched on YouTube. Filmed in the summer 2008 with the help of Push-community this video aims to raise awareness about our highly important cause. Please feel free to share this link with the ones close to you. Thank you....
Давно уже сфотографировал и выложил на Flickr'е, но всё забывал написать. В одной из газет, что приходят в дом под видом рекламы, хотя на деле содержат её очень мало,...
Сегодня на обед было прекрасное дополнение к имеющемуся набору: салат из дыни и болгарского перца в соотношении около 4-х к одному соответственно. Today there was great addition...
Меня, как понауехавшего, нередко спрашивают, лучше ли тут и чем лучше, но зачастую однозначно ответить сложно. К тому же, здесь меня привлекает множество мелочей, с...
В комментариях к предыдущему посту мы пришли к заключению, что я выбрал плохой пример для уровня преступности в Финляндии, потому как я и сам им далеко не так...
Надпись на недавно построенном доме: Inscription on the wall of recently built apartment house: «Здесь мог бы быть лес» “There could have been a forest”
Позабавила социальная антиалкогольная реклама, которую размещали некоторое время назад в различных формах: I was amused a little by a social antialcoholic advertisement placed around some time ago:...
One of the advantages of summer in Finland is that you can get in contact with nature. In a visit to the summer house we even found deer.
I have gotten two new pretty cards from Finland. The first one is from paulav and it is actually her first card that she sent out. Thank you very much! :) The second one is from hrauman :D
08/15/2008 21:31:08 ♥ written by vu ( ) A while back, in a discussion with a fellow W♥M writer, I told him that I've always liked "themed" posts. One of my idea was to do a special kitchen utensils article, about bands' names involving 'spoon' or 'fork' or 'knife'. At the time, it sounded really...
Norteña Originally uploaded by Chiva Congelado One of those things that I was not used to anymore was how Mexican wedding receptions are organised. The wedding ceremony itself can be religious or not (usually you have both, as there is complete separation of Church and State in the country) but as...
London feels like an odd place to be at the moment. I arrived back home last night from my holidays in Finland and Estonia and it's taking me longer than usual to get back into the swing of things in the big city. It's almost unheard of. Usually after a week away I'm itching to get back to the...
