Varje dag publicerar Husis en liten notis från 20 år sedan. Den 6e november 1989 intervjuades Jörn Donner med anledning av Svenska dagen. Han sa bland annat:
“En god finlandssvensk är en person som talar både svenska och finska. Bor man i Finland måste man behärska majoritetens språk, fastän man råkar vara en minoritetsrepresentant själv. Ju [...]
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På tal om svenska
Posted in Finland, church, culture on November 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
God works in mysterious ways
Posted in Christianity, church on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So I have to admit that when I moved to Turku I was quite tired. Church tired that is. And not tired from going to church but from all the responsibility I had in my church. The last year in Helsinki I had been: coordinator for the Action festival, head-dishwasher for Women’s brunch, leader of [...]
Action and old friends
Posted in Christianity, Relatives and other friends, church, events, music, pictures on October 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So this weekend it was time for the annual Action festival at my old church. And of course I went!
Beautiful people and music by Hillsong Stockholm and Fila’s own band. Plus Andreas Forsberg with band, who was forcing everyone he saw to buy his new CD.
And I even saw my cousin’s daughter Elin! Either I’m getting [...]
André&Sofia
Posted in church, events, family, music, party, pictures on August 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The second wedding of the summer took place on the 25th of July at Sion church in Vasa where my cousin André wed his lovely Sofia. (André is my younger cousin from my mother’s side)
Such a talented group of people at this wedding as well. Both the bride’s and the [...]
Andreas&Monica
Posted in church, events, family, music, party on August 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The first wedding of the summer took place 6th of June at Sundom church where my cousin Andreas and his lovely Monica said their “I do”. (Andreas is my younger cousin from my father’s side)
The family band with Andreas’ sister on keyboard, his brother on base, his nephew on trumpet and [...]
Celebrated midsummer in Helsinki this year. I think it was a first. And even though I’ve been living in the city for like 6 years it was the first time that I visited Svartholmen as well!
Svartholmen is where my church has its campsite. It’s four mold infested buildings + a sauna + an outdoor toilet [...]
Saturday in Pictures
Posted in church, events on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wonderful and very tiring day.
Spent the morning at our church’s Women’s brunch. And the afternoon washing up after the brunch, together with the lovely Mikaela and Sofie – and some other women as well
The evening was spent at Tiina and Marie’s place, discussing the importance of doing research, the pain of giving birth [...]
What to talk about while checking flies
Posted in Christianity, church, culture, work on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Conversation at work:
I: So why do Greek Orthodox pray to saints?
V: We don’t, we only pray to the holy trinity!
I: So why do you have saints then??
V: An example: Saint Nicholas is the protector of sailors.
I: Ah, so they are more like angels, protecting you from things, but if you are really in trouble you pray [...]
My identity
Posted in Asia, Christianity, Christmas, Finland, church, culture, family on January 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Shinya came back to work today after a 3 week long vacation in Japan. I am so glad and he was happy too. He said: “I’ve confirmed. I’ve confirmed that I’m Japanese.”
And I thought: Yes, how wonderful. To be able to feel that you belong somewhere, that is truly a beautiful sensation. To find your identity anew.
And [...]
Celebration
Posted in Finland, church, events, party, pictures on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last Saturday we did not only celebrate Finland’s 91st birthday but also Veronica’s and Ann-Sofie’s 30th! In honour of this they had decorated the entire church café in white and blue and invited all their friends for a party. I was happy to be named the photographer of the evening and here are some of the [...]
Christmas worship
Posted in Christianity, Christmas, church, music on December 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I just thought this was so sweet! And I know that we have many wonderful and powerful Christmas songs, but how often do you find a Christmas worship song? Can we please please please sing this next Worship night!?
Viikki church
Posted in Christianity, church, culture on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, so you know that you are in Finland when someone lyrically describes a church as being “like a sauna” – AND everyone listening gives out a happy sigh of recognition.
But I get the point. It’s not only that the church in Viikki is built entirely out of wood that gives it this atmosphere. For a Finn the sauna is [...]
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