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 »
Finnish, the most difficult language in the world
Posted in Finland, work on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Poor Matteo, he is taking a course in Finnish and to help him out Juha has thought him some useful phrases. Now every time they meet, Matteo greets Juha with a happy: Mitäs äijä! Something he obviously thought ment “what’s up!”
M: I tried to say “Mitäs äijä” to a girl but she got real pissed off. [...]
How to make blood bread, part 2
Posted in Finland, culture, food on September 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
You mix some cow blood with an equal amount of beer.
Then you add the flour, salt and some butter.
My mother’s comment: Don’t eat too much, you might get sick!
My grandmother – she started laughing. And then she told my mother that, in the old days, you had to boil the bread before you ate it [...]
And you thought you had to go abroad to buy strange things from the supermarket!
Posted in Finland, food on September 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yes, it is blood!
At Citymarket you can get half a liter of blood to make, for example, the highly recommended “blood-bread”.
To make this bread you need: 0,5l blood, 0,5l beer, 30g yeast, 1dl melted butter, 1,5tbsp salt, rye flour and barley flour (kornmjöl)
Mix, let rise for 1 hour, and bake at 225 degrees Celsius for 15-20min.
My question is; [...]
Det är så roligt att läsa tidningen
Posted in Finland, culture, travel on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
När man far utomlands och vill uppleva en annan kultur brukar jag:
1. Fara till en begravningsplats. Detta är väldigt informativt, tro mig!
2. Läsa en dagstidning. Tyvärr inte så lyckat om man är i säg Frankrike och inte kan franska – men om man råkar vara i Sverige, Irland eller Hongkong så kan det vara mycket trevligt.
Om man [...]
Saker som gör mig förbryllad
Posted in Finland, Turku/Åbo, art, culture, events, music, random thoughts on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jag upptäckte att även Åbo har en konstens natt. De gjorde reklam för den i veckans skräptidning. Med stor glädje skriver de att man efter kl 17 bara kommer att behöva betala 4 euro i inträde till konstmuseet. Och hoppsansa, om man är under 16 år slipper man in gratis! Museet håller dessutom öppet ända [...]
Medieval market
Posted in Finland, Turku/Åbo, culture, events, food, pictures on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This weekend Turku celebrates its glorious past by having a medieval market. This is in the same league as Night of Arts in Vasa or maybe something that Skansen would do. So beautiful and really family oriented.
Two guys get to beat the crap out of each other. When I first saw them they [...]
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 [...]
What I did on Friday
Posted in Finland, books, culture, life, product info on April 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I spent half of my Friday cursing Itella (the Finnish postal service).
First of all I cursed it for the fact that it always takes two days to send anything, from a small postcard to a large package, from Vasa to Helsinki even though they kind of promise that it will only take one day.
Then I [...]
Something occured to me…
Posted in Finland, culture, family, random thoughts, work on March 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
(Something that might not be so interesting for anyone else but me, and perhaps my mother)
Ah, I realised something yesterday! We were talking about washing dishes and one of my colleagues came out with this statement:
“It’s such hard work to fill up the dish-washer but even worse to empty it!”
Now, I would ordinarily think of [...]
A very long post on today’s youth
Posted in Asia, Finland, culture, hobbies, life on February 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was talking to Zhao the other day about the restrictions people put upon us. When Z was in elementary school the kids were forbidden to go dancing, to play video games and so on. If someone saw you in the game-hall they could report you to a teacher and you would get reprimanded. And [...]
Maybe spring is coming…
Posted in Finland, environment, life on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sitting at home coughing. And sweating. Almost to the point where I have troubles breathing.
They are performing a temperature check in my building, which means that they set the radiators at the highest level, screw off the nob so that you can’t adjust it and then leave you in a sauna. They furthermore advice you [...]
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