CouchSurfing rocks!
Tonight I drank Karhu III for the first time in my Life. I shared it with Terry as we hopped outside from the hot sauna at Taina's place, some 40 km South-East from Rovaniemi. And now my head aches and I'm oddly drunk. I must admit that drinking doesn't really enter my regular mode of existence anymore.
This is the most awesome family ever! Some 7 (or 8?) kids and the warmest welcome I have ever experienced! The kids are great and the mom even greater. I am truly looking forward to tomorrow! We'll help ready some ground to plant some tomatoes and also help out with cutting some wood.
A Japanese guy is also living here, an exchange student for a year - if I understood right. He speaks somewhat Finnish which is quite neat :) yesterday on our bus ride back from the arctic circle with Terry, we talked with a Chinese uni exchange student about her experiences here. She mentioned the fact that before she came she knew practically nothing about the country and that being here has provided her with quite unexpected experiences: like going from a ten million city to one mainly inhabited by trees. She also mentioned almost freezing herself to death during an ice-carving class.
I must admit that I have never been able to have such a deep look into the land I was born onto even though I know quite a few people here. This is so different! Being able to enter people's homes and lives like this is quite unquantifiably cool. And unnervingly enough I feel perfectly fine with it! I have no problems simply showing up and melting into the family. It's wonderful!
On the flip side I am quite worried about all that is going on with the sale of the company. I cannot help but worry that it all has to do with the house and my mother. It may sound completely stupid and odd but for me she is inviting catastrophe simply by not following her duties.
And, as conscious as I am about the fact that my travels might now be somewhat over I am somewhat hopeful that one day, perhaps, I will get to go to that lake. Even though, in all honesty, I don't think I'll truly ever make it that far. Odd, eh?
I yearn to go there and in my Heart I already am there but somehow it feels that it isn't for this Lifetime. Funny to feel that a place is so out of reach even though in all modern ways it is really just around the corner. Perhaps I have other things in store for myself.
Life has become unpredictable and is taking on twists and turns I had not expected.
Like checking out a private climbing wall in the cellar of a dude living on the arctic circle...
:P
This is the most awesome family ever! Some 7 (or 8?) kids and the warmest welcome I have ever experienced! The kids are great and the mom even greater. I am truly looking forward to tomorrow! We'll help ready some ground to plant some tomatoes and also help out with cutting some wood.
A Japanese guy is also living here, an exchange student for a year - if I understood right. He speaks somewhat Finnish which is quite neat :) yesterday on our bus ride back from the arctic circle with Terry, we talked with a Chinese uni exchange student about her experiences here. She mentioned the fact that before she came she knew practically nothing about the country and that being here has provided her with quite unexpected experiences: like going from a ten million city to one mainly inhabited by trees. She also mentioned almost freezing herself to death during an ice-carving class.
I must admit that I have never been able to have such a deep look into the land I was born onto even though I know quite a few people here. This is so different! Being able to enter people's homes and lives like this is quite unquantifiably cool. And unnervingly enough I feel perfectly fine with it! I have no problems simply showing up and melting into the family. It's wonderful!
On the flip side I am quite worried about all that is going on with the sale of the company. I cannot help but worry that it all has to do with the house and my mother. It may sound completely stupid and odd but for me she is inviting catastrophe simply by not following her duties.
And, as conscious as I am about the fact that my travels might now be somewhat over I am somewhat hopeful that one day, perhaps, I will get to go to that lake. Even though, in all honesty, I don't think I'll truly ever make it that far. Odd, eh?
I yearn to go there and in my Heart I already am there but somehow it feels that it isn't for this Lifetime. Funny to feel that a place is so out of reach even though in all modern ways it is really just around the corner. Perhaps I have other things in store for myself.
Life has become unpredictable and is taking on twists and turns I had not expected.
Like checking out a private climbing wall in the cellar of a dude living on the arctic circle...
:P