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From [community profile] thefridayfive :

1. What are your feelings about snow?
I like it - unless it is still snowing in May. But in winter, it makes everything very beautiful.
  

2. What is the one thing you really dislike that is associated with snow
If it melts and then there is frost again, everything is covered with ice and it becomes dangerous to walk outside. Happens many times every winter, unfortunately.
 
3 What is the one thing you really like that is associated with snow
The way it shines in the sun. Also, the winter holidays are, for me, connected with snow. That's two things, though :)
 
4. Do you anticipate or dread bad weather reports?
I know I should, but I don't usually follow weather reports. And then I am surprised why the weather is not what I'd actually expected...
 
5. Are you dreaming of a White Christmas?
I hope the snow lasts. My two Finnish Christmases were both without snow. It was pretty, too, with fairy lights everywhere, but just felt wrong. Especially when they were opening the Christmas Fair in the rain.
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 Snow has finally fallen, righ on the night before the celebration - so, the day was very, very beautiful!
Happy 100th Birthday, Finland!


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Questions from [community profile] thefridayfive  :

1. What are you going to dress up for Halloween?
Frankly, I doubt I'll dress up at all. I keep forgetting about Halloween year after year.

2. What was your favorite Halloween costume you ever had?
The only one I can remember - because there's a photo somewhere - is a costume I wore for a school Halloween play. Only I was playing the part of a frightened little girl and wore my own clothes - that is, the slightly more festive variety: a jacket and, I think, a miniskirt. But considering that I'm not really fond of dressing up, I would probably call it the best even if I did remember anything else :)

3. What is your favorite type of candy? 
Hmm... with herbs? But better, chocolate.

4. What are your feelings on pumpkin flavoring or pumpkin spice flavoring?
Not particularly cheerful - because I'm not too fond of pumpkins. I've got zero experience with either, though.

5. With October almost gone, what was your favorite part of the month?
This part:

     

     

     

In other words, before it turned to this – overnight:

    

Although snow is pretty, too.
 
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 For about a year since moving to Finland, I could not understand why people were complaining so much about mosquitoes: the nets on my windows made sure I never got any in my room, or kitchen. But now that I've discovered berry-picking, I have to go outside and under trees (can't call this a wood, really, because it's quite small).
So, that's where they'd all been hiding from me!
Better buy myself some mosquito repellent. So far I've been managing to fight the attacking forces off, but every time one or two are getting through. Besides, when I'm waving my hands around my face, I risk damaging my glasses, which would be very bad.
But mosquitos are big here! - but, luckily, so are often berries :)
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Mornings like this make me wonder how I still manage to like cycling! Sometimes I'm afraid that going to the university by bike almost in any weather will teach me to hate it for the rest of my life. And many Finns do it even in winter! - I don't think I'll ever dare take the risk.

Good thing our team still haven't given back the heater we borrowed from the janitors back in June.

By the way, is it allowed to cycle and hold an umbrella over your head with one hand? Could be useful sometimes.

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