OLCELLA FOLK PARTY

-May I bring my dog there? Anyways it is an outdoor folk party, I think he will not bother anybody. I will tather him.

-well, you could, but I hope he is not going to run after the geese.

WHAT?!

Hidden Treasures

Sometimes, even for a messy person, tiding up becomes a necessity. Sometimes, the necessity becomes fun and you end up discovering things that you didn't know you had.
I found, in our library, many old books including:
-my grandpa's french schoolbook
-a book of economic policy written by Pareto, in a copy dated 1909
-a catalogue of chickens (1912)
-a cookbook (1919) in which there are recepies on how to cook grasshoppers! (Cucina Italiana!)
WOW!

and the artist's drawings and sketches take a third dimension. Sweetness with hard cover.

post graduate trip

- my friends from uni and I are thinking of going for a long trip after discussing our thesis.
-oh, really?! where are you thinking of going?
-well, so far there have been several proposals. For example, one of us has been thinking of going to Australia, another to India..
-sounds nice. Have you also been thinking of going to south America?
-of course. Somebody has being trying to convince the others to go to Colombia, but we all have been wondering about the safety, you know.. Then the last proposal consinsts of taking the trans-Siberian and...
-well, I knew that you guys that study Economics and Social Sciences are a bit communist!

"age of steam"

all the morning in my hears. My shoes soles are complaing for the kilometers I make them walk with me.
Funny day today. First, when getting out of home, I could not find the tram stop where I usually took number 3T/3B. Am I blind? Or has the stop been removed? I must admit that I was quite dazed and confused, this morning.
Walking around, downtown and noticing small changes, a new bakery, a new shop. But somewhere else, the same faces or the same corners give a good vibe to the nostalgic me.
Helsinki sometimes feels like a second home. Today it did.

superstars!!!!!!!

It is always nice to watch the olympics, but it is fantstic when you have friends that participate. Four years ago, during Athens 2004, I was in an hotel room in Japan and when I swithced the TV on (one of those rare occasions in which I watch tv) I saw my friend Marco shooting in the final for the gold medal. He won the olympics!
Now I am in Connecticut, whithout Tv, but with Internet...and I see that my friends MARCO, MAURO & ILARIO won the silver medal in team!!!!!!! Marco has been for me the mate of 1000 adventures during junior cups, world and european championships. We started by winning the Mikey Mouse national trophee in 1996. Now: he won already a gold and a silver at the olympics and I have quitted. Ilario has been a sort of spiritual father during the competitions with the senior team. He is the eldest of the team, but the craziest. This is his 6th olympic game. Iremember him totally drunk of KOFF after winning the european championships in OULU. I hope Beijing will be a cause of celebration for him also in the next days!
And Mauro, the youngest...During my last year in the junior team he was the youngest and he has been my spiritual son. I am so happy that his first olympics have been a success!!!
GRANDI RAGAZZI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pictures on www.archery.org or www.corriere.it

Old Lyme

Quite a cute name for a tiny old village. I would say it reminds more of a lime custard cake than of an old lyme. It is sweet being here.
Before leaving, I would like to climb on one of the secular trees than inhabit the garden of the mansion where we are staying and read a book up there, maybe with a glass of wine and a panino al salame. I could read the book we found in one of the countless used-book-store we visited: Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.

The day after tomorrow is time to leave the US. I wish we could stay, from the arrows far away.

on the road again

New York was absolutely fantastic. The last evening there consisted in a picnic and a movie at Bryant park, followed by a short walk in broadway.
Then Boston. Quite pretty. We stopped in Cambridge to see how Harvard and MIT look. Not quite like Disneyworld, but nice. Now heading to Cape Cod and Old Lyme.

Conversation after eating a greasy Hamburger:
-I feel so bad, I have a horrible Nausea!
-Are you pregnant?
-I don´t think so.
-well, I could have a beer.
- ....

I LOVE NY

NY is great and New Yorkers are fantastic. A guy insisted to guide us in the Grand Central Terminal railway station just because he liked us.
It would be great to live here. Maybe in Brooklyn!

One thing that has a perverse effect on my intestine is the coffee, that in that sense is like the finnish coffee.

The sunshine state

Fort Lauderdale Airport, waiting for the boarding for our NY plane.
So far, adventres include:
-getting tanned and releasing a baby sea turtle found at the beach
-getting burned and using a FOILLE lotion that expired in 1989
-trying rock n roll roller coasters and towers of terror at DisneyWorld
-staying in a hotel called GAYLORD
-meeting a finnish cousin turned into a redneck, that has two sweet daughters that want to play with me and show me how cute their dog and cat are
-meeting cheerful people
-driving on endless highways
-trying the launch simulator at the Kennedy Space Center
-teasing my boyfriend
-teasing my mom and her boyfriend
-feeding squirrels in the garden
-baking scones
-shopping and spending 1 hour and 35 minutes at the Abercrombie store
Time to go now, next adventures available in New York City