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I overslept and missed liturgy this morning...
I hate it when it happens. The beginning of the week is so full of nothing after a Sunday without church.
I think Al Gore is a little wet behind the ears ... it feels like the onset of an ice age, not the beginning of summer here in the Northern latitudes.
That's beautiful Nestoj. It's so obvious that it comes from "down there". I didn't know you guys also use bag-pipes.
I've always thought the greeks & the irish (and the spanish to a certain extent) are the only european nations that still produce original music based on their traditional motives. I'll now add serbs to the list. Also, I have to visit Serbia some day. The closest I've ever been was the serbian church in Dubrovnik. Belgrade girls have a great reputationand hey I'm a single man .
Winter here, and cold. I've been wearing three layers minimum all day.
Saw Troy today. That was fun. I can think of a few things I'd rather have done than sit with him at a dinner table with a bunch of people I didn't know for a few hours tonight, but oh well. After two hours or so of him avoiding me, we got to talk and we're sort of being human now. Sort of. Hard to have an appetite when you feel ill, but the yiayia next to me made sure I ate! What I didn't eat got taken home for her cat. I suppose one shouldn't waste food...
Trying to take things a day at a time and trust God. Not always good at it. Trying.
My family will forever tell the story about how when I was 2 or so we'd come home late from something and I was falling asleep, but my mum was sure I had to eat something...
So she heated up tinned spaghetti (like spaghetti-o's) and put it in front of me. I smiled, yawned, shut my eyes and tipped face forward...a hair from the boiling spaghetti, my dad caught me. And put me to bed. They ate the spaghetti!
Mum didn't try that one again.
I overslept and missed liturgy this morning...
I hate it when it happens. The beginning of the week is so full of nothing after a Sunday without church.
Cheers.
I've seen this man's name on the finnish church website, but didn't know his story. I say don't translate yet, leave it as an exercise for me. I recognise enough words to navigate around websites & find things such as addresses, shop opening times, contact details, times and types of church services, general topics of some newspaper articles etc. With Orthodox things it's easier, because so much of the terminology comes from greek anyway. Also, the kirkkoherra here speaks good english & understands even better. E.g. he was happy to hear my confession in english when I needed it. I have no complains .
Would be good to learn properly some day (mama EU comission recommends every EU citizen be fluent in at least 3 european languages & I'm stuck at 2). But not too much motivation - everything at work happens in english & while shopping, or in restaurants & bars I get by in english anyway. I have colleagues who have spent even 8-9 years up here and still don't speak. I'm sure you do understand the finnish language is a completely different animal from anything non-finns have seen before .
Belive me I know... the Finnish language is a beast. I'm one of those weird Swedish speaking Finns... I didn't learn to speak Finnish well (I still don't write it nearly well enough) until after High School. I never heard it growing up (we lived in France until I started school) and I never had any Finnish speaking friends (something that nowadays is rather rare) so I had a very hard time in school...
The absolute majority of Finns appreciate if you just try to speak. They know it's a messed up language and hard to learn. My Greek only go so far as 'Dogs up a tree' (Doxa Patrie sp?)
i really liked it!!!!
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