visit Finland

I going to visit Finland 20 July :D

My passport should hopefully arrive sometime soon.

It’s so beautifull there!

I have had a complete filing cabinet filled with my mother’s old papers that I finally went through. She was a writer and saved all sorts of stuff – newspaper stories etc for ideas for books or stories. She was Finnish, and she had some notes about speaking Finnish. She said the language has no future tense. So, I guess the present tense has alot of meaning, or maybe present tense like absolute statements, I like dogs – I like them today, and always have, always will.

I really wanted to go this year, but next year for sure!! If you have not seen the photos ladies…go to Valo Daily on Livejournal! OMG! Beautiful…no other way to say it!

this seems antithetical to my goal of moving to warmer climate. Finland is even closer to the North Pole than Toronto. But my grandparents were Finns, and I understand there is some really cool architecture there. Plus, I would like to just see what it looks like and see what it feels like to be around lots of people who look just like me.

I visited Vaasa and Lapua in Finland in 2004. The country is very beautiful and the people which I met were very genuine and hospitable.

This is going to be an achievable goal as my partner and I are going to travel Europe for a couple of years hopefully starting next year.

A pen pal of mine lives there and I want to meet her. She has been a very good friend to me for two years now.

one day I will get there (what a cliche) I mean it too. Just right now I want to tighten up my goals list to the more immediately achievable. I will put this back later.