On top of this, the sun came out this morning! It had been so long, and I forgot how great it made me feel. I wonder if this will help me appreciate sunny skies more...
(Taken right outside of our apartment complex. We live next to an energy plant.)
(On the walk to the university)
(Tampere-talo is right across the street from the University of Tampere. It is the largest Congress and Concert Center in Scandanavia.)
(Monday morning coffee)
I have a fair amount of reading (New Lits, Intro to N.A. Studies) and studying (Finnish, Finnish Culture & Society, Intro to Web Publishing) to do this week.
A boy I met in Tallinn was asked "You're constantly meeting people, half you won't ever see again. What's the point?"
(Friends like these are worth a series of hellos and goodbyes.)
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In Finnish class, we learned the verb onkia (to fish with an angle).
Minä ongin (I fish with an angle)
Sinä ongit (You fish with an angle)
Hän onkii (He/She/It fishes with an angle)
Me ongimme (We fish with an angle)
Te ongitte (You all fish with an angle)
He onkivat (They fish with an angle)
My teacher (Heikki) said that no native English speaker he has met has understood the term "angling." It's basically just fishing without a rod. "It's really boring," my classmate told me. "You have to drink a lot of alcohol while you wait." Apparently angling is allowed under the "Everyman's Right." I asked Heikki if he has ever done onkia. "Of course," he said, "I'm a Finn." After a brief pause, he asked, "You mean, you've never done this?"
No... But I want to. Kind of.
Further reading on angling in Finland:
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