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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: 02/01/2007 - 03/01/2007
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A commentary on life up north! Monday, February 26, 2007. Next time I get molested on the bus…. There are many drunken Finnish men in this country. In fact, alcohol-related deaths were the leading number of deaths. Of Finnish men in 2005. They beat out heart attacks and composed 17.1% of males who died between the age of 15 and 64. Alcohol-related deaths made up 10.6% of female deaths. It’s a major problem, perhaps a national crisis. I don’t normally like to generalize but I will not. It was a little irr...
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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: 05/01/2007 - 06/01/2007
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A commentary on life up north! Tuesday, May 22, 2007. I was inspired by the architecture Valle (the scholarship program that’s funding me) students’ abilities to connect their work to the non-architects. So I’m giving it a try with my own work in. Has its history, present, and future which, in order for it to survive, has been centered around water. 8217;s Water System. Between two large lake. The largest lake in. 257 km²) and Pyhäjärvi. The city was originally established on the Pispala. 8217;s water ha...
