Long time no see... After quite warm september it turned to very cold october and the ground is white at mornings. Trees have still colourful leaves, beautiful season this autumn is.
Well much to do nowadays. My new hobbies take quite a lot of time. Tuesdays I play Kantele, we started with five strings and after one lesson with ten strings!! Actually the sound is better, you can play much more with more strings, but it is just a little bit more difficult.. Ofcourse I have to practise also at some other evenings...And I'm also studying special education in the open university of Jyväskylä. I have passed my first exam!! It is very interesting. I also visited a place were blind people or people who have any problems with their sight and their families can join courses to learn how to manage from their daily challenges. After the visit I had to make a raport and now I should visit one more place... Now I will write few postcard for postcrossers.

I visited in Kivinokka in earth art exhibition. Some of those works were very nice and beautiful and skillfully made. Actually I liked most of those art works this year. The exhibition has been in Kivinokka every summer for several years now. If you want to see pictures of earlier years, see http://www.sunpoint.net/~kivinokka/ .What I thought was that why it is called arts when you drag a toilet down to a forests? Or when you take quite much of rubbish and put it together with wire? Is it really art? I think that art should cause pleasure to people. Maybe the artists sometimes want to make people think with their works, maybe that is why they drag those toilets out to the woods.

So much nice things to do! I will start two new hobbies. If there will be enough people in a kantele-group I'll start playing kantele every tuesday evening. I will also start studying more in an open university. Looking forward those groups to start in september!!

We returned from our "week in a forest" holliday at sunday. The cottage was bigger than I thought and there was little electricity for two lamps because of the little solar panel on the wall outside. But the refridgerator and the stove were functioning with gas. On the little lake there were nice little sauna with a quite big room with a fireplace. So we warmed the sauna (with wood) every evening and swimmed in a lake were the water was quite warm. There was also a rowing boat to use and boys were rowing and fishing on a lake every day. I was thrilled because there were so much blueberries so I spend some time picking them and at home we have now been eating plenty of blueberrypie. Living in there was very simple, like in the old days. We had to carry all the water from the lake and the water for cooking and drinking was brought from the owner of that cottage. He lived in a house nearby (1 km). It was a nice and peacefull week and it was good that the groceriestrore was only 5 km away (at home we are used to 500 metres...). Home sweet home after all travelling in different kind of places on our vacation.

It has been quite a nice summerweather this week here in Helsinki. After Bulgaria it stil feels quite cold ( never should visit warmer countries at summertime...) but actually sun has been shining and it has been over 20 degrees...Because of the raining a lot its very green and beautiful. Speaking of beautiful I had to go and see the flowerlabyrinth at the railwaystation- see this site: http://www.mtv3.fi/uutiset/kulttuuri.shtml/arkistot/kulttuuri/2009/07/914236
At friday everyone who wants can go and pick one for oneself starting at eight o'clock. In my culture week I also visited at ateneum to see the exhibition of Kalevala that was nicely build exhibition and beautiful paintings.I liked more older paintings but there were also some new and modern works some of them were too violent for me.
Next week we will spend in a little cottage in Kisko, about 100km from Helsinki. I hope the weather will stil be good because the cottage is really small. Maybe we will swim a lot and I hope we will find some berries in the forest. Well a week without internet can be difficult...just if it doesn't rain I quess we will find out something else to do.

At last our internet connection at home works!!! Last week we were in Bulgaria to see a little bit of sun and to be in warm climat what it seems not to be found here in Helsinki at this summer. Well there is some sunny days but not very warm...
Sunny beach, were we took our flight seems to be very much for turists who wants to lie on the beach or party all night long. We also did some swimming and rented few chairs on the beach and spend some time on a swimmingpool of our hotel, but we also walked quite much and visited few nice cities that were near, Nessebar, Sozopol, Burgas and we took a boat on a Ropotamo-river. Food was very good everywhere and people were very friendly. At the city of Burgas we saw what would happen if we haven't got here in finland so fine systems to take care of our buildings together. And the watersystems here at home are really good also!! So nice to be at home!

At last the summer seems to be here! The sun is shining and it has been quite warm all day.
At the weekend when we were at Röykkä it was very cold. I was about to take my winterwest with me but because I did not take it I was really cold at saturday night.
It was a very nice and peacefull weekend. We walked at the forest were two other families told that they saw the footprint of a beer. We didn't see it even if we tried to find it. One person who lived there nearby told that it could more probably be also a footprint of a lynx. His dother had found few weeks ago a fresh scull of a deer in that forest.
The place were we were is an old hospital of Röykkä. At first it was for tuberculosis patients. Later there were old patients who had psykiatric problems. Anyway the building is very beautifull but some people say there are ghosts...

It seems that the summer is not goming to Helsinki. It rains almost every day and it is quite cold. It has been warm last time at 31.5 if I remember it right. Is this what they are talking about the climate... Well we are going to search the sun and warm days from Bulgaria when our vacation starts at 28.6.
Today we are going to Röykkä for the weekend maybe it will be possible to barbeque a little if it doesn't rain too much and go to the sauna and perhaps swim a little in a lake. After all it is very green everywhere some flowers are blooming and the birds are singing so it must be summertime. Anyway I will take warm clothes with me.

j'ai fini un cours ou j'ai apris jouer au kantélé (=cithare finlandaise). Le cours durait trois soirées. C'etait trés amusant!

Kanteleen soiton alkeiskurssi on nyt ohi ja into olisi kova jatkaa. Syksyllä kuulemma on ryhmiä, joihin voisi osallistua. Katsotaan onko silloin vielä intoa ja aikaa...