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Finland Laurita: Lone Lukonmakian
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A commentary on life up north! Thursday, August 02, 2007. My flatmate went back to Slovakia on Tuesday. Please don't slobber on my door. I need some housing allies. Anyway, I was thinking about all of the fun times around Lukonmaki and all of the people who I wish were here. We had a lot of fun in Lukonmaki, with pretty much just ourselves (I'm realizing)! Especially right there. That's FUN that they're having! That's going to be so much fun! Cheers from security-bound South Africa! Yrttikatu 1 E 40.
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Finland Laurita: Biking in the Ǻland Islands
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A commentary on life up north! Wednesday, August 01, 2007. Biking in the Ǻland Islands. 200 kilometers of extreme beauty is what we saw. Everything was beautiful in Ǻland, even the weather. Get ready for a whole lot of pictures because I couldn't stop taking them! Ǻland is an Autonomous State, over which Finland has sovereignty. Most residents are Swedish speakers. Their ethnicity is a touchy subject, which I've heard described as ethnic Swedes or Swedish-speaking Finns. We wondered. Trafficsomething?
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Finland Laurita: 03/01/2007 - 04/01/2007
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A commentary on life up north! Saturday, March 17, 2007. Everyone plays cards. and everyone shuffles them differently. Leasa hosted an American style potluck dinner that included a fierce game of spoons, a game where winning doesn't matter but losing is punished. Is in the pie. Links to this post. Sunday, March 04, 2007. Ice Swimming in an Orderly Fashion. It Today, I gave it a try. There is a public sauna located on the shore of Nasijarvi. Hot (almost literally) I wanted to be. I tried them all, but...
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Finland Laurita: Copenhagen
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A commentary on life up north! Friday, August 10, 2007. I saw both Bobby and mom on this trip! Both sort of random encounters and both very fun! If you like bikes, you should go to Copenhagen! Of course, I had to take a picture of classic Copenhagen! Here it is as we always see it in the pictures:. We visited some old grain silos that had been converted into very expensive and fancy apartment buildings. We were eventually asked to leave, but got some photos first! And Libby are architects from the UW.
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Finland Laurita: Helsinki Fun
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A commentary on life up north! Friday, August 31, 2007. Mom is motivating me to embrace my final time in Finland. We had some tourist time in Helsinki. I've been to Helsinki millions of times, but there were many many tourist attractions that I had still not visited. This is the church in the rock, an architecture specialty. Mom in front of the lady statues in the Esplanadi:. Jump for joy in from of Sibelius's monument:. Thanks for a fun visit mom! How cute are the two of you! Monday, 10 September, 2007.
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Finland Laurita: 11/01/2006 - 12/01/2006
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A commentary on life up north! Wednesday, November 29, 2006. I realized a few weeks ago that I hadn’t left. Since I got here. Is a lovely place and there’s no reason to leave… except that I’m a bit of a traveler by nature. I’m in a country with affordable trains and busses that can get me anywhere. I can even get affordable airline tickets that make travel within. Almost mandatory. And, I was brought here by a fellowship that actually wants its recipients to travel and learn about. Which reminded me that...
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Finland Laurita: 12/01/2006 - 01/01/2007
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A commentary on life up north! Saturday, December 16, 2006. I generally write about places after. I’ve seen them, which displays an entirely different image than I had before I left. It’s also a little boxed-up and formulaic for an entire year of adventures. I’m going to. Tomorrow. I’m expecting to see lots of Christmas Trees, Santa Clauses, Beer, and some sort of raw meat that my sister told me about. I’m visiting Dita (and hopefully some more of my German. It will be cold, but not colder than. Old town...
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Finland Laurita: 06/01/2007 - 07/01/2007
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A commentary on life up north! Saturday, June 16, 2007. IWHA 2007- Women in Science! It’s been amazing here! The sun shines almost twenty hours per day now. It has shined throughout our intensive water sampling period, the complementary midnight lab analyses, a visit from my father, and the annual IWHA conference, which all happened almost simultaneously. There’s been lots of work and lots of fun… and not much sleeping. The IWHA conference was titled The History and Futures of Water. Later on, I was help...
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Finland Laurita: 01/01/2007 - 02/01/2007
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A commentary on life up north! Thursday, January 04, 2007. While Lapland occupies almost the entire northern half of Finland, it only has about 20,000 inhabitants (the entire population of Finland is 5 million), some of which are the native Sami people. It's dark most of the time in the winter, and it gets pretty cold. However, the weather was beautiful when I was there, with a very pleasant (and unseasonably warm) temperature of -7 °. Was willing to have a conversation with very few verbs or prepositions.
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Finland Laurita: Vapriikki- VELOMANIA!!!
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A commentary on life up north! Sunday, August 05, 2007. It wasn't just a good. Bicycle history exhibit, with lots of cools bikes that ranged from the running machine to modern day miniature tandems, but it put cycling right in the middle of Tampere's. History. The museum, Vaprikki, is housed in one of Tampere's many re-used industrial buildings that line the Tampere rapids. At least that's what I think. There was even bicycle powered logging equipment, used in the paper industry. Monday, 06 August, 2007.
