Friday, January 30, 2009

Hammaslaakariasema

You may think I let one on the twins type that title. Sorry, not the case. A couple of the a's are missing dots over them, but I can't figure out how to do that. I have no idea what this word means either.
Urlheilopisto- I know what that means....generaly. It is the sport complex where we are staying. Now, is this the only place with that name? don't know. If I went down to Helsinki and asked where the urlheilopisto was would they point me in this direction? have not a clue. The only way I have this vague notion of what that word means is that it is on the signs on the trails around here. And there are many trails. I learned how to discover the meaning of urlheilopisto all due to self preservation. I'm not into getting lost out here. Not on my list of things to do.
I'll share a breakfast meal: Cheese- one slice of swiss, and one that was yellow. 2 slices of a sandwich type meat, hopefully chicken. A bowl of white yogurt with a red jelly -possibly logan berry. Brotchen like roll, watery OJ, small glass of milk and a cup of coffee with what I hope is cocoa. It is fun to see what different people think of to eat for breakfast.
This morning on my short walk from the rooms to the dinning hall, I looked up in the sky to see if there were clouds or stars. Well, there were some stars but they were dim, so I assume there is a thin layer of clouds. Looking higher, I could make out the big dipper, which pointed to the north star, and then I almost fell out of my chair because my head was tilted so far back. I was looking straight up at the north star. Just a sign of how far north we are here. 0740 and we have a pre dawn glow. Yesterday, we were "blessed" with clear skies (and -20C), so we had a direct view of the sun. It left about 1430 behind some hills. Gone. But, we had a glow in the sky until 1630. That is when the sky finally started to turn black. Real interesting environment.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

love to read what comes to your mind. :) Watched my handsome man cross the start line on the 10K--wow you look awesome!miss you like crazy--czar