“Helinä-keiju on kaunis”

Saturday was forecasted to be as sunny as the every other day during the past weeks here, so I decided that it’s wise to hop on a train early in the morning when it’s not so hot and crowded there. I went to Antwerp, a harbour city not far from Brussels (ok, in Belgium nothings far), where I met a finnish girl who’s been au pairing in Holland for a couple of months now.

Antwerp Zoo is right next to the massive central station, in the middle of the city, but the area was really peaceful and quiet. Lions, tigers, elephants, giraffes and even a tiny little kangaroo…it was really relaxing to spend a few hours there. Gosh I love penguins!

I love architecture and old buildings in general, and Antwerp was as gorgeous as most of the old European cities. I still have to pay at least one visit to the city as I haven’t seen Het Steen yet. It’s a medieval castle next to the Schelde river in Antwerp.

Though it’s been hot and I’ve not felt totally healthy ( I can hardly speak in the mornings and my throat is aching) I haven’t given up on sports. Yesterday, I made a 2 hour walk and today it was 2,5 hours. You should see my tan now On a weather like this, it is really handy to have a tiny gym of your own in your room – I can exercise later in the evening (when it’s not so freakin’ hot!) that I could if I went to the country club, and might thus even get something done.

Today’s been a day off once again, I dunno why actually. I think that tomorrow I might take Laura to a park or something. We’ve been there a few times and she loves to feed the ducks and mallards. And I get a good laugh of course, as when we run out of bread the birds begin to chase us, and that really pisses Laura off, so she shows off her finnish-arabic temperament…I really pity her future life-companion, that guy has no other choice than to obey

Laura’s Finnish keeps getting better and better. She’s even started to pronounciate the R:s in some French words incorrectly, like she should pronounce the letter in question if she’d speak Finnish! I am particularly proud of the fact that she can say “Helinä-keiju” (=tinkerbell) in a perfect Finnish accent, as it’s a difficult word indeed for a native French speaker. I have this fixation about fairies in general and I have a large Tinkerbell earring on my right ear that she keeps looking at and playing with.

We’ve got some guests coming over so I’m off now and I’ll get back in the business later.

And P.S, way more people visit my blog that I would have imagined, but where are all the comments?! I wanna know who’s reading this stuff

~ by Inka on May 12, 2008.