Birds

Unfortunately I had no time for writing today, because of having cleaned windows, shoes, and doing other preparations for my graduation on Saturday. We did have time to go shopp the last gifts to take to Chile with us and check The Beach in Helsinki (it's pitiful, in case you don't get my irony), and the cemetery that lies next to it. So here are the photos about out little touristic tour:

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Mini-golf and Baking

Here are pictures from yesterday, when we went mini-golfing and just walked around in sunny Helsinki (:

It is harder than I thought to prepare the graduating party I will have on Saturday. I have been cleaning and baking all days with my mum now, and for example yesterday we went shopping to a supermarket for two hours trying to find all ingredients for the baking that's left. On Friday the worst will come: we'll prepare two cakes (gateau says my dictionary for that kind of cake I'm thinking of) with mango, apricot, passion fruit and peach, a couple of cheese cakes and jelly rolls, this Finnish thing called "pulla" and I still need to fill the macarons I baked today. And I will take some pictures of the busy baking that day.

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Sunrise

Last night we stayed up till 3:30 am to go watch the sunrise. (For those who are unfamiliar with this: in summer sun sets in Finland about 11 pm and, for example as last night, might rise at 4:18 am. In the north of Finland it simply stays up all the time, and in winter in the contrary doesn't rise at all because it's more to the north than the polar circle.) Unfortunately, as we jumped on in our bikes, we could not find a place with no buildings, trees or ugly power lines between the sun and my camera. So there were no amazing pictures taken, but here are three I took that are not exactly under the title.

Anyway, this experience was a learning possibility for me, as I could have planned better and thought about a couple of things before getting the camera and leaving: first to check where the sun rises and second to notice that in that specific direction there are not clear views near of where I live. Or I could have reserved more time to look for one. But let's just learn from our mistakes!

The first and second pics are the same place with different settings, but I kind of like both of them, the second one looking more accurate with the colors.

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Manifestations

I went to a protest today in Helsinki. It was supposed to be this world wide protest by Chilean people, because they don't have the permission to vote from abroad, which means that more than a million votes are not count when it comes to any kinds of elections in Chile. It was only "supposed to be", because with me and O being there we were four people in the great protest of ours. Luckily there were bigger ones in big cities in other places. And luckily another manifestation appeared, and I could take some pictures to publish here.

I think it's just too easy nowadays click a button or write on your facebook wall about something that's wrong and never do anything more about it. It's great that manifestations are held as I think it's the fastest and most visible and effective way of showing your thoughts about something that is wrong in the world. I would love to see more Finns participating in these things, because it's lame to be in a protest with no people. Been there, done that!

In the first picture there is a bird nest under my apartment's roof, where I got a better view while we were cleaning the window.

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Misty Day

A beautiful misty weather today in Helsinki.

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Bad Conscience

Now I really have a bad conscience for not having written for so long. The truth is that I have had no pictures to post! I went to my big brother's daughters christening on Sunday, and I didn't want to post something so personal from someone else's life, but now I've found that there are four neutral photos: one of me and three of some food. So, I'm not that proud of tonight's post's quality, but at least it's something ;D

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My Stockholm 2

And here are the rest of the pictures of Stockholm:

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