Leftovers

We never got to try the natto that Shinya brought to my party this Saturday, so on Tuesday I reluctantly tried this “delicacy” for the second time in my life. It’s basically fermented soybeans and, how can I put it, not exactly my favourite Japanese dish…
I did however enjoy both sushi and dry seaweed at [...]

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Crazy food-party

A couple of weeks ago I woke up in the middle of the night with low blood sugar. I can never sleep when my blood sugar goes below 4 and since it takes a while for the ”cure”, in this case fruit juice, to kick in I always have some time to lie awake and think before [...]

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And I’m definitely a meat lover!

Today’s newspaper brought some chocking news. It seems as though the attitudes in Finnish school kitchens haven’t changed since I was in high-school. And believe it or not – that was ten years ago!
Today’s article was about how more and more students choose to become vegetarians. As many as one third of all high school students in [...]

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Speaking of chocolate

Today I dissected fly wings. Aren’t they beautiful, a real work of art!
My dear colleague Mari has started to empty her cupboards of all her chocolate. As she’s originally from Estonia she travels there quite often to visit relatives and every time she comes back she brings with her a box of chocolate. Obviously a [...]

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Ah, chocolate!

I’m trying not to get my hopes up, but it’s not working very well – I can’t wait for Zhao to come back from Belgium as he promised me to buy my favourite chocolate!
I cannot say that I’m a chocolate connoisseur, and the fact that my favourite chocolate can be bought in any Belgian supermarket [...]

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Visiting neighbours (part two)

Stupid wordpress does not want you to upload that many pictures to one post (or it might be that my computer is too slow) so I have to continue my previous post here. If you want to read the beginning just scroll down.
…we were picking mushrooms.
 

We found quite a lot of chantarelles, but not this many. [...]

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Visiting neighbours

Last weekend I visited a place where they greet each other with a happy “ciao”. You guessed it; Estonia.
My dear colleague Evely has gone back to Tartu university to finish her master’s degree, so I, Shinya and Jenni took this as an opportunity to go and visit our neighbouring country. When you get to stay [...]

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Helsinki in two days

Antonette came to visit me this weekend  I got to know her in Hongkong, where we took Cantonese class together. Now she’s working in London and is, at the same time, trying to travel all around Europe to see her old friends.
When she had left I got flash backs from when my cousin Hanna came to visit me [...]

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Some scary info about myself

I’m ill. Sitting at home with a fever – well not really a fever, more like a cough with a temperature. And when you’re ill you’re supposed to drink a lot. However, I do not follow today’s assumption that the daily intake of water should be something like two liters, so instead of drinking this [...]

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Lemon meringue pie

This is a recipe that I promised to give to my mother some time ago, it’s one of my favourite pies. If you want the recipe in English you’ll find it here but I’m going to write it in Swedish and try to convert all the American measurements into Finnish standard ones. I found a wonderful [...]

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Sports day

And speaking of sports; we had a sports day at work. Starting at 8.30 in the morning when the bus left for Solvalla. At 10am we were forced to do some embarrassing games (building group moral I guess…) followed by lunch and two more hours of intense activity.
I had chosen to go out for a Nordic [...]

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There is no job too challenging, there are only stupid employees

This is a truth that I came to understand when I arrived at work this morning. When a job becomes too challenging, when you reach that point, the challenge is no more. You are not challenged by something that’s beyond you. You don’t feel pressured. You don’t feel like looking for the answer to the problem, [...]

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