27 August 2013
Error
My photo editing program is not working, it leaves everything unfocused and kind of blurry, so sadly I don't know when I'll be able to edit all the pictures from our trip (that by the way was fantastic!) :(
22 August 2013
Waiting for Hiking!
The hiking trip to the national park of Pyhä-Luosto was postponed for tomorrow, and the friend can't make it so it's going to be just the two of us.
In the mean time I made some pancakes and korvapuusti, a Finnish pastry. Also one picture from the last post got left behind for some reason so I'll just put it here.
I can't wait our little hiking trip! I've always wanted to go hiking to Lapland with a tent, camera and good company of course. Thanks to its quiet, ascetically beautiful nature it's my favourite place here in Finland, and if I'd stay in this country, I would want to live right here in the north. Right now the plans are returning to Chile in some point, and why not live in other places for a while too, but you never know until the moment is up. And I love it, it would be boring to know everything about your future exactly for sure before it happens. What's the point in mourning if your plans don't go the way you want, just enjoy the life as it comes (;
In the mean time I made some pancakes and korvapuusti, a Finnish pastry. Also one picture from the last post got left behind for some reason so I'll just put it here.
I can't wait our little hiking trip! I've always wanted to go hiking to Lapland with a tent, camera and good company of course. Thanks to its quiet, ascetically beautiful nature it's my favourite place here in Finland, and if I'd stay in this country, I would want to live right here in the north. Right now the plans are returning to Chile in some point, and why not live in other places for a while too, but you never know until the moment is up. And I love it, it would be boring to know everything about your future exactly for sure before it happens. What's the point in mourning if your plans don't go the way you want, just enjoy the life as it comes (;
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20 August 2013
Barley fields
I couldn't get many good pictures from our mission to pick mushrooms, because it started raining, and my camera still hasn't got any rain protection. We didn't get many mushrooms either, because even though there were many, there was none of the kind we went looking for. At least it was a nice walk in the woods (:
Tomorrow I'll go hiking with O and a friend for two days to a place called Pallastunturi. I hope I'll get many pictures there!
Have a nice starting of the autumn!
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16 August 2013
Question!
We got some taste of a materially independent life the other day, when we went fishing and prepared and ate the fish we got for lunch.
Fishing just for the fun of it has started to feel cruel for me. What right does anyone have to have fun or, even worse, relax by making other living creatures to suffer or kill some - even if they are just fish? (Not to mention the worms, but I have to admit that the fish have the most of my sympathy.) I also admit having done it when I was younger, but at the time it was normal and encouraged, as other people around me were fishing just for fun. The example of them made me think this is something natural and fun. Also I wanted to show everyone that I am as tough as the boys and can get my own worms and it's not grouse to touch a fish, but that's not my point now (;
I can think of many things people seem to do only for habit, for culture or for not questioning it (often for all of those). As a horse girl, one of the first things pops in my mind is the using of riding crop: as a child my riding teacher told me to hit the horse with the crop if the horse went too slow. Nowadays I would never hit an animal just because it isn't doing what I want it to, but at that time it was truism. But if the coach says so and everyone else is doing it anyway, it's no big deal, right?
A common acceptance of something lowers the chances for it to be questioned or changed, or that's what I believe. Outside the horses for example violence can be transmitted from the environment to children, if they have seen their parents fighting everyday. For them it's something natural, even though violence shouldn't be natural to anyone. I'm sure everyone can think of bad things that used to happen just because: slave trade, gladiator fights, oppressing women... the list is endless.
Questioning is good for anyone, even though it would be something little from everyday life - it's not always necessary to think about wars and famines. And it shouldn't be scared either, because if something is good and right, questioning it would just make you realize that. But it also needs some courage, because if and when you find something you did not want to see or admit before, it needs the courage to be able to make a change. I think it was Platon or Aristoteles who said that to be able to know something for sure, you have to start by questioning everything, also the things you think you already know.
Fishing just for the fun of it has started to feel cruel for me. What right does anyone have to have fun or, even worse, relax by making other living creatures to suffer or kill some - even if they are just fish? (Not to mention the worms, but I have to admit that the fish have the most of my sympathy.) I also admit having done it when I was younger, but at the time it was normal and encouraged, as other people around me were fishing just for fun. The example of them made me think this is something natural and fun. Also I wanted to show everyone that I am as tough as the boys and can get my own worms and it's not grouse to touch a fish, but that's not my point now (;
I can think of many things people seem to do only for habit, for culture or for not questioning it (often for all of those). As a horse girl, one of the first things pops in my mind is the using of riding crop: as a child my riding teacher told me to hit the horse with the crop if the horse went too slow. Nowadays I would never hit an animal just because it isn't doing what I want it to, but at that time it was truism. But if the coach says so and everyone else is doing it anyway, it's no big deal, right?
A common acceptance of something lowers the chances for it to be questioned or changed, or that's what I believe. Outside the horses for example violence can be transmitted from the environment to children, if they have seen their parents fighting everyday. For them it's something natural, even though violence shouldn't be natural to anyone. I'm sure everyone can think of bad things that used to happen just because: slave trade, gladiator fights, oppressing women... the list is endless.
Questioning is good for anyone, even though it would be something little from everyday life - it's not always necessary to think about wars and famines. And it shouldn't be scared either, because if something is good and right, questioning it would just make you realize that. But it also needs some courage, because if and when you find something you did not want to see or admit before, it needs the courage to be able to make a change. I think it was Platon or Aristoteles who said that to be able to know something for sure, you have to start by questioning everything, also the things you think you already know.
What would happen if you questioned a habit, relationship or opinion in your life that is obvious for you? If you are afraid of what you might find, then you shouldn't start before you're ready to open your eyes.
P.S. We also went picking blueberries the other day, that's in the pictures below. And tomorrow we'll go to pick mushrooms with my aunt - I feel like a hillbilly :D
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13 August 2013
Exploring the Surroundings
Yahoo, now we have all the furniture we'll need in the apartment, and what even better - assembled! That is because we did a little visit to IKEA yesterday and brought home a sofa and a tv-rack. Tv itself will not be bought very soon though, but at least we got some more room to put things, and the room doesn't look so empty now.
With no thoughtful themes tonight, here I have some pictures from Friday, when I took a walk in the surroundings.
With no thoughtful themes tonight, here I have some pictures from Friday, when I took a walk in the surroundings.
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| We bake all coloured cookies! No racism :D |
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10 August 2013
Nature in My Home
As I wrote yesterday, we ran into some reindeer one day on our way to buy some milk, and here is what happened when I got my camera from home. (It feels so good to be able to call this home! We moved one week and one day ago.)
I thought how interesting it is that nature can be so close and overlapping with a city. Then I thought that everyone should stop and ask themselves: where goes the line between "nature" and "human"? Aren't we part of the nature? I insist that the human itself is already a part of the nature, as we are just as animals as any other mammal. Then why is it that something made by humans is not considered nature? You can easily say the park near your house or even your own backyard or garden is nature, but not many would perceive their living room as a part of the nature. But still almost everything in the room might actually come from nature, for example wood in the furniture or the stonewalls.
Maybe the problems with nature and respecting it that people have today are partly because it isn't seen as something you live in. You can go there for a trip, but it doesn't go home with you. If you realized nature is your home and your home is nature, maybe you would treat it better.
P.S. The street name "Porokatu" means literally "The Street of the Reindeer". I wonder where it got its name (;
I thought how interesting it is that nature can be so close and overlapping with a city. Then I thought that everyone should stop and ask themselves: where goes the line between "nature" and "human"? Aren't we part of the nature? I insist that the human itself is already a part of the nature, as we are just as animals as any other mammal. Then why is it that something made by humans is not considered nature? You can easily say the park near your house or even your own backyard or garden is nature, but not many would perceive their living room as a part of the nature. But still almost everything in the room might actually come from nature, for example wood in the furniture or the stonewalls.
Maybe the problems with nature and respecting it that people have today are partly because it isn't seen as something you live in. You can go there for a trip, but it doesn't go home with you. If you realized nature is your home and your home is nature, maybe you would treat it better.
P.S. The street name "Porokatu" means literally "The Street of the Reindeer". I wonder where it got its name (;
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09 August 2013
People of Two Homes
After a pause this long I had to check what was the last post with pictures about, and so I will put here now the last pics of Chile. Tomorrow I'll start posting more recent pictures I have taken here in Rovaniemi these days. Yesterday for example we got surprised by a group of reindeer one block from our apartment, so I ran to get the camera.
The moving went well, and getting the stuff to the third floor without an elevator happened much faster that I would have thought. A couple of days ago the last box was finally emptied, and now only a few little things are waiting to have a place in the apartment. Otherwise it actually looks like a home! It is so wonderful to finally have my own place both physically and mentally. I am already loving this place: the apartment is perfect for me and O, it lies close enough to everything, and still the whole city is much more peaceful and green than Helsinki (the capital). It feels good to be here.
O said something interesting a while ago, he said that it's natural to feel like going home when flying towards Chile, but it's peculiar that it feels like going home also when going back to Finland. I thought that I actually feel the same - seems like we are people of two homes.
Even though I will cross all the lines I put to myself about how many pictures I can publish at once, here come the last images of Chile! And I happen to appear in three of them, wohoo!
The moving went well, and getting the stuff to the third floor without an elevator happened much faster that I would have thought. A couple of days ago the last box was finally emptied, and now only a few little things are waiting to have a place in the apartment. Otherwise it actually looks like a home! It is so wonderful to finally have my own place both physically and mentally. I am already loving this place: the apartment is perfect for me and O, it lies close enough to everything, and still the whole city is much more peaceful and green than Helsinki (the capital). It feels good to be here.
O said something interesting a while ago, he said that it's natural to feel like going home when flying towards Chile, but it's peculiar that it feels like going home also when going back to Finland. I thought that I actually feel the same - seems like we are people of two homes.
Even though I will cross all the lines I put to myself about how many pictures I can publish at once, here come the last images of Chile! And I happen to appear in three of them, wohoo!
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