Let it snow!

Yesterday, January 7th, the entire Finland was covered in snow. FINALLY. The temperature dropped from plus degrees to -11 celcius degrees. Now it really feels like winter :)

Animal postcards from Germany and Austria!

The first postcard, showing a lion, is originally from Namibia but it was sent to me by a German postcrosser from Germany. The second card (I don't know the name of this animal) is also from Germany. It had an inspirational line on the back of the card: "If you can dream it, you can do it." 

These last two cards I have bought myself a long time ago. The first one is from the famous Spanish Riding School in Vienna and second one, as you can read, is from Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg.

More animal postcards are to come some day again... I have many of them.

Postcards from Austria, USA and Iceland!

All these three cards are my favourites, which is no wonder since I've bought two of them myself ;)

Postcards from Hawaii, West Virginia, Utah & North Carolina!

North Carolina & West Virginia.

Postcards from Utah & Hawaii. This Hawaii-card is my only card from Hawaii and it is definitely one of my favourites :)

Postcard scanning project

I have collected postcards for many, many years now, and by now, I have more than 600 postcards. Most of them are from postcrossers all over the world but I have bought postcards for myself, too, and my family and friends always send a postcard to me when they travel abroad. 

Anyway, I think now is the time to start scanning my postcards and share them with the world. I'm going to scan them in a pretty random order because it would take a lot of energy to organize them all in some good order. 

Learning Italian

During my Christmas break I started learning Italian since it would be very useful for a translator-to-be to know as many languages as possible. And my choice was to learn Italian! 

I only started learning Italian independently a week or so ago, and being a slow learner, I haven't made much process. So far I know some greetings, basic questions, and numbers from zero to twenty in Italian. Zero, uno, due, tre, quattro, cinque, sei, sette, otto, nove, dieci, undici, dodici, tredici, quattordici, quindici, sedici, diciassette, diciotto, diciannove, venti. I swear that I remembered all those, I didn't cheat! 

Soon I will know even more greetings, basic questions, numbers, and other vocabulary. Soon I can write my blog posts in Italian! 

Buona sera!

New Year's tin

By melting tin and dropping it on cold water on New Year's Eve you can foresee what your new year is like. I did that on New Year's Eve, I melted a small of piece of tin, which was shaped as a horse shoe (like it traditionally is), and this is what I got:

- The surface of the melted tin is coarse in some areas, which is a very good sign; the more coarse the surface is, the more money you will get!

- My tin has only small smooth surfaces, which is a good sign, since having large smooth surfaces predict illnesses.

- I was able to spot two creatures: a man's and a bird's head. A bird indicates happiness and travelling, and a man indicates that a stranger is coming.

- The shadows of my melted tin form the shapes of a dinosaur and a lion, depending on the point of view. I have no idea what a dinosaur would indicate but a lion indicates (according to my sources) success with the help of friends.

According to my New Year's tin, I should have nothing to worry about this year :) Just in case, I did one other trick to ensure that I would have a successful year coming. After being to sauna, I threw the bath visk on the roof of our house. Doing that predicts whether you are going to get married during the new year. The stem of the bath visk pointed outside of the house so.... I'm getting married! Though, I should find a man first...

A dinosaur and a lion according to my eyes.