Some facts
Hi Yvonni!
Seems nobody else is here at the moment, so actually I could write German *g* but on the other hand I think English is already easier for me, when I speak to myself (what happens quite often so that at least one person is talking to me...) than I always start in English!
Anyway - I haven't been to Helsinki for the first days but I can tell you what was going on in the cottage. Ok I think I was almost the only one fighting a big battle against the mosquitos. But still it was really nice, we had a lot of food (grilled meat twice a day!!!) and a lot of beer and cider. The best thing was probably the sauna, which isn't at all as relaxing as they want to sell us Finnish sauna in middle Europe. The best and worst thing is that you take a beer with you... I think you can imagine, the alcohol needs about one microsecond to reach your brain because you're thirsty. Than you rush out to jump into the lake where you spend some time cooling down and when you're freezing you rush back into the sauna perhaps detouring to the fridge to get another beer... I like it *g*
But the very best thing is the castigation... that means they cut some branches of a birch and bind them together. And when you're really sweating you beat yourself with this bundle and you can scream "perkele" (which means something like "devil" but Eleni could explain it better I guess) while doing it, looks really funny and is a real comfortable massage! I tried to do a film, but you can't see too much and only hear my laughing. If you want, I can send you a CD with the pictures, but I'm afraid I don't know your address in Muenster.
So I hope you can imagine a little bit what was going on, it was big fun but you were missing of course.
I didn't know that you're still doing Greek lessons, I guess you're the only one of us so you'll guide us through Kriti next summer. My Greek is at least much better than my Swedish, actually I'm not at all interested to learn Swedish (I'm afraid this is always my problem, I mean I didn't study too much Greek in Thessaloniki, but last year in Germany, probabaly I should get to know a Swedish uy who can teach me (in my age of course). But unfortunately I have to disappoint you a little (do you remember our small icq-chat before I went here), there are not so many blond Swedish guys and also not really tall, I know just a few ones who are taller than me. The only thing, they ALL have blue eyes, really, by now I met only few people with brown eyes and that is really special then.
Ok, I hope you have a small impression now how our stay in Finland was.
Filakia, Jutta
PS: LEO.org is really a great dictionary, look what I've found today: red-legged ham beetle
Seems nobody else is here at the moment, so actually I could write German *g* but on the other hand I think English is already easier for me, when I speak to myself (what happens quite often so that at least one person is talking to me...) than I always start in English!
Anyway - I haven't been to Helsinki for the first days but I can tell you what was going on in the cottage. Ok I think I was almost the only one fighting a big battle against the mosquitos. But still it was really nice, we had a lot of food (grilled meat twice a day!!!) and a lot of beer and cider. The best thing was probably the sauna, which isn't at all as relaxing as they want to sell us Finnish sauna in middle Europe. The best and worst thing is that you take a beer with you... I think you can imagine, the alcohol needs about one microsecond to reach your brain because you're thirsty. Than you rush out to jump into the lake where you spend some time cooling down and when you're freezing you rush back into the sauna perhaps detouring to the fridge to get another beer... I like it *g*
But the very best thing is the castigation... that means they cut some branches of a birch and bind them together. And when you're really sweating you beat yourself with this bundle and you can scream "perkele" (which means something like "devil" but Eleni could explain it better I guess) while doing it, looks really funny and is a real comfortable massage! I tried to do a film, but you can't see too much and only hear my laughing. If you want, I can send you a CD with the pictures, but I'm afraid I don't know your address in Muenster.
So I hope you can imagine a little bit what was going on, it was big fun but you were missing of course.
I didn't know that you're still doing Greek lessons, I guess you're the only one of us so you'll guide us through Kriti next summer. My Greek is at least much better than my Swedish, actually I'm not at all interested to learn Swedish (I'm afraid this is always my problem, I mean I didn't study too much Greek in Thessaloniki, but last year in Germany, probabaly I should get to know a Swedish uy who can teach me (in my age of course). But unfortunately I have to disappoint you a little (do you remember our small icq-chat before I went here), there are not so many blond Swedish guys and also not really tall, I know just a few ones who are taller than me. The only thing, they ALL have blue eyes, really, by now I met only few people with brown eyes and that is really special then.
Ok, I hope you have a small impression now how our stay in Finland was.
Filakia, Jutta
PS: LEO.org is really a great dictionary, look what I've found today: red-legged ham beetle
Greekfreak - 1. Jul, 09:20