We went for groceries today at Kupittaa K-City Market. We were inside the store for an eternity – this is literal – because I came with the “crazy” idea, in situ, to try the dishes of store’s magazine. That would be material for another post.
What I want to share here as my discovery of today is: a new location to display / offer sweets to the customers on this supermarket.
The sweets are now actually in-front of you when you pay. I have never seen this before, until today. I think this is getting really hard for those of us who want to reduce our sweets in take. The store cannot put those products closer to the shopper any longer. :O
Good thing I do not like those chocolates. Yes, I am a picky sweet eater. Still, I need to train my inner power for the day I am directly tempted with the chocolates that I like.
Today it was another full day, and in my attempt to be punctual for a meeting I walked a short cut through a bridge. Then, I discovered that the bridge’s Christmas decoration included sound. :O Later in the evening/night I filmed it, which by the way it turned out to be a very bad footage, but if I wait to go again, then I will not publish this so, let it be. Honestly, I am not sure if the sound is actually spooky. We could be interesting scary-playful games in here, without a doubt.
The video will give you a glimpse of my experience:
Here is the actual location of this bridge:
I need to research which one is the name of the bridge. At the moment, google indicates the name as “Teatterisilta” which literally traduces as “Theater’s bridge”.
Writing this post let me realized that on some days I mainly have new experiences. It is difficult to describe a particular discovery, when . Instead I could make notice of all the things I MUST do and I haven’t done, for example: use social media.
As I want to fulfill my year of discoveries for this day I will report the board meeting at Aikavaellus.
First some updates. On May 19th I moved to Turku, but I haven’t been really here. My things have been. It is until last Sunday, 23.7.2017, were I “landed” in Turku, so adventures ahead….
While being in a new city, a habit I am building up is: after work go to discover.
At the moment we are doing this discovering by biking, so far so good. :). Btw, this habit should be well build up and permanent, it is amazing what one can find.
On Tuesday while returning back home, we hear someone testing a microphone on a street. It was loud for a Finnish context, this was a bit odd. Also during this day we saw small stages and people dancing on them.
Rehersal at Europeade 2017
It was on Wednesday, after we saw a sign on a street about Europeade 2017 that we realized something was going on. Then, I decided to stop at the tourist information office and I was informed about the Europeade 2017 schedule. We were just on time for the opening ceremony.
We biked to the main stage where the opening was programmed and surprise! I saw the following regional dresses:
Germany / Austria at the Europeade
The official opening include over 300 dancers from Turku region, it was something special to watch. Here a small clip of it:
The event include individuals of ALL ages groups, and this is literal, from infants to grandpas. All ages have a space in here. As the commentator mentioned:
“More than 6000 dancers got together from 24 countries, and no matter their age, weight or wehre you come from. The most important thing is the spirit!”
Indeed one could feel a magical spirit. 🙂
Diversity of ages at the Europeade
Once the ceremony finalized, as you can imagine the dancing floor was open for EVERYBODY:
So what is Europeade? Let me copy the following text from the Europeade’s website: We are committed to the preservation of our intangible heritage of regional folk culture, be it music, dance, song, or costume. To reach this goal, we spend five days together sharing our dance and music with our friends and performing in the shows.
My Thursday’s night 26.1.2017 was full of internet reading due to the last orders of the new USA president at that particular moment. The topics there are being discussed at the moment are relevant for me because I am a female who loves science, enjoys traveling, believes in cooperation and collaboration, thinks that everybody should have a minimum right of shelter, health and education, believes in freedom and I am an immigrant. Additionally, I am proud to say that my “heimat” is Mexico.
So, I was reading this analysis of this column El viaje es una trampa, when suddenly, as if I was watching a film everything changed because I got the article el primer mandatario que dice no. The international press was also writing about the current conversation between two neighbor countries, for example in the bbc and euronews.
I felt I needed to say something and I needed to digest, so I only could say this in my forgotten FB’s wall:
We are transforming our “real world” in an INTENSE rollercoaster.
It is time to play wisely.
Wish to be listening more to historians and chess players. They are needed!
The new president of the USA is making us think, which in itself is a good thing. We were given a lot for granted lately. The wall between USA and Mex already exist, the interesting fact is to reflect upon his approach to divide which imho might be short sighted. Yes, for Mexico USA is an important customer, but also for USA Mexico is the second important customer after China. The following infographic is quite interesting in terms on how USA could be affected if the borders are changed without thinking.
The topic of the wall is short sighted as there are all the topics I have heard so far, but ok, one has to respect. However what happen when topics actual relate to all humans on earth as:
a) Denied human influence into climate change
b) Forbid the communication between researchers and laypeople. (note here and here)
Time to think and ACT!
This reminds me, I remember, some years ago at a seminar in Tampere, were one of the papers we were discussing was about LARPs. For me, it is a difficult to get into the LARP world, real life is very immersive for me. I am not a larper, it is a fact.
However now I wouldn’t mind “playing” on a futuristic “LARP” where different scenarios can be created of our current rollercoaster.
Let’s keep constructing our future,
— cais
PS. Historians, where are you? We need you! Please remind us several things from our human past to be able to see the future.
