It's been a while... Time flies, what else can I say? I don't know where to start. Lots of things have happened, and in a way, nothing has happened. Rochester remains the same.
I'll start about today. The weather was great today, and (inspired by Naroa) I decided it was time to take my crappiest camera out of the closet and go for a walk with it. I'll show the results as soon as I have time to develope and scan the film. It was somehow really relaxing to take pictures with that plastic camera, I also felt like a tourist (in my home town) cause I just wondered around taking pictures.
Otherwise life here has been mostly school, and since last friday; school and gym! Life gets a bit funny when you live in a place like this. But I have to say that it has been really nice going to the gym (I've been mostly swimming) because I've felt myself a lot more energetic straight away. The gym itself is a bit odd place, members only club. But I'm not complaining. I'll tell more about the place some time.
On Thursday me and Tuomo went out with my classmates Tracy and Andri. Tracy taught us some useful english expressions that we hadn't heard before:
Lift that didn't go to the top floor
A picnic short of a sandwich
We also heard, for the first time ever, someone saying that finnish people are beautiful. Wow. I've heard that we might be the ugliest people in Europe.
This is all for now. I promise that I'll try to take a grip of myself and start writing more often. But I'm not promising anything about writing in english every time.
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5 comments:
I've heard that we might be the ugliest people in Europe.
erm..the english?
Well, I think I've heard that one too. But I didn't actually put my own opinion to the entry. Maybe you can't really say anything about the looks of a whole nation. Like you can't really (or I can't) say that finnish people are honest and fair and all the Brits are nice and polite.
Who is this anonymous btw?
yay English i can read! ive never meet a ugly Finn.
I agree, but stereotypes are the marketing power of nations. Some of the stereotypes are fed, and some are crushed. Of course you need to see for yourself if there's any polar bears running around wild in Finland, or if all the girls in Brazil wear string bikinis. Same thing applies to looks aswell, if some country isn't well known for it's gorgeous looking people, then it's just marketing gone bad. There's always exceptions of course - and I'm not dropping any names here - when some remote countries have been inbred for centuries, you just can't fight against some few bad genes. And let's face it... in hundred years (if we still are here) the increased travelling and immigration has eaten our monocultural looks, and you won't be able to recognize someone's nationality by their looks anymore.
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