Hos min nabo

And suddenly – I´m back in Finland. As you might guess, last weeks were pretty full. The moving is never that simple as one would imagine…I got managed to get myself (plus my bike, “odd-weight” backbag, handluggage and computer) to Helsinki. Althought the jetlag wasn´t that rough in my case ( I didn´t manage to finish the Sudoku-puzzle as we were already starting the landing) I´m still a bit in between two different lifes. Especially as I still haven´t move back home but living in my friends appartment for a while.

But I try to enjoy the summer here and thus far it has been b e a u t i f u l. Doing just some summer stuff in the empty city and last weekend I was in the summer house. Swimming in the middle of the night in a small lake is just..perfect.

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Instead of enjoying the last days in the hot Copenhagen, I´ve been done some travelling: eating brunch in Berlin, dancing the whole night til 10 am (on music festival on a former Russian military airfield in the middle of nowhere), sitting in a hot and sweaty van, camping on a beach, swimming in a Baltic sea. Camp fires, stupid jokes and Żubrówka. Puppet theater, music and ice cream. Sun.

Nice. And dirty. Appreciation to the toilets, showers and clean water!

And. Me and my decisions…Somehow I ended up to Roskilde after all. But only for a one day, so does that count? I mean, although the actual festival with bands and stuff lasts from Thursday to Sunday, many party people are there already from the previous weekend. It was interesting to visit two different kinds of festivals. From the german electro-hippie event to the professionally organized mass-hygge-party. I guess it´s common in a huge festivals that the crowd and audience is devided in the sections like stalls. If you want to get close to your idol, you´ll have to queueu for couple of hours to earn your spot. That works but looks silly. There were signs and even lights, kind of traffic lights. And althoug in the picture there are only staff, there were lot of people, lot of bands and h o t.

I heard so many times the word “køkultur” (something like queue culture) in one day. The danes don´t like (who would?) the ones who are trying to jump in a queue. They definitely will shout that word after you. They also don´t run a red light ( I mean cross the street when the light is red), but stay and wait even if the street is empty. The Finns doesn´t like the queue jumpers either but they wouldn´t dare to say anything, at most they could give a bad look and curse you in their mind. Still, it´s just one kind of a køkultur among many others – in some other cultures you have to be active and try work your way to the top or just chill out and shout “ultima” when you´re trying to quess who´s the last one in a queueu.

Now I´m recovering and chilling out in an empty town. I´m not sure are the empty streets creapy or cool. Where have all the people gone? I checked the numbers, and they all are not in Roskilde. Hopefully feeling already better tomorrow and can go furher than the nearest Netto to find them. If I want to find them. Believe me, but after spending time with all this thousand of human beings, I sure do appreciate to spend a day by myself. And sleep. And listen to nice jazz that I can here from the open window instead of the trance van we had next to us…

Filed by annava at 11:17 pm under Uncategorized  Tagged dancing, festivals, fusion, køkultur, møn, roskilde, sea, summer feet, sun
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I have reached the decision. The Question has been asked honestly at least once a week since January. As I am a master of evasion, I´ve managed to postpone the final decision until now. I´ve decided when I´m going back to Helsinki. As I doesn´t have anything restrictive or any really important duties forcing me to be in one place, I have been struggling with all this opportunities and choices. Damn freedom. Luckily someone have decided something. My friends are getting married so that gave me some kind of a bench mark what to follow. (I mean, I´m not getting married but attending to their wedding, hah!)

I thought to stay here the whole July but now I´m going already in few weeks. Weird. As soon as I decided and bought the tickets, I felt that I still wasn´t ready with CPH. And actually I´m not! I still haven´t got a ride in a Christiania bike. I had a date and he promised to take me for a ride around the city but the rain came and ruined the plans. So, please feel free to contact me if you have a bike like that. Or if you don´t want to bike all the time, I can do the biking part and you can sit and have an øl or two. Not the worst way to spend a nice summer day, right?

But at least the summer finally came! Could just hang around in a park but I´m a bit restless. It´s somehow hard to enjoy the summer and the last weeks when you have all the time the awareness that the end is near. It´s hard to plan anything or start anything new. Again this thing with everything being temporal. I think that´s why I moved the departure date so that I can start already to plan my future back in Finland. Kind of cheated myself.

The other Big Question has been – to Roskilde or not to Roskilde. Even I myself was surprised when I decided not to Roskilde. I know, I´m going to miss the ultimate Danish institution. But just didn´t feel like it. I´m using the ”it´s so expensive”-excuse but that´s also an excuse. I mean, if you REALLY want something, it´s not about the money then, is it?

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Stepping out of the comfort zone. This time I´m gonna be a rock star! Or at least appear on the stage with a musicians. Or at least near the stage as it´s a really small and we´re many and apparently the stage is also a relative description about those few centimeter which are supposed to separate the artist from the crowd.

The thing is that a friend of mine is having a gig tonight and I promised to help him by singing in the choir with other some other friends. Even if I have a long and colourful history about performing and doing weird stuff in front of the audience, singing is not one of those. I can´t sing. I even hate karaokes. And I envy people who can. And those too who are doing it despite the fact they sound really bad. I´m aiming to rise to the last category from the ”I suck, so I don´t do that”-group.

We have rehearsed couple of times. Amazing how it felt to back in the music class again. Only the whiskey bottle to have a little liguid courage was new.

Ps. You want to see the show? Check more info from here.

(Booah, what a marketing tool I am. Sorry for that. But I felt stupid to tell you about that and not mention any information if someone would be interested. And he is great. And there´s going to be a horn section too! )

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During the process I try to keep on thinking about the outcome, which in this case is a beautiful garden. At the moment however, this sucks. Well, of course I could see the pros of living in the construction site too: it really wakes me up and because the Internet ain´t working either, it gives a nice push to go to the library. It could happen a bit later than 7 am.

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I woke up today at 4.30 am and decided to finish my paper. For some reason I couldn´t sleep anymore and before 8 am. I had already ready with the paper, watched my daily portion of the Wire, eaten breakfast and…waiting the office of our department to open that I could hand in my exam!

U n b e l i e v a b l e.

Especially as I have suffered of ”saamattomuus” lately. It ´s the feeling of icantgetnotningdone. Not lazy or sloth as the dictionaries suggest. I work and work but like said, can´t get nothing done.

Well, like said, not to day. As I didn´t have anything else to do (I thought it would be safer to start working with the next and final essay after returning back home from the campus. I don´t trust this state of mine at the moment.), I made a list of songs. Kind of an soundtrack of my spring you could say. Something old, something new and something mixed.

Eagger Stunn /2000F – Morder Dem (RUF Remix) OHOI

Slagsmålklubben – The World Welcomes Fame

Malk de Koijn – Vi tager fuglen på dig

Brand Nubian – “Slow Down” (Pete Rock Remix)

Buraka Som Sistema – Sound of Kuduro

Firehouse & Lady Smita – Du Faar Ik Punani

The Coup – We are the ones

Of Montreal – Gronlandic Edit

Junior Boys – In the Morning

Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy Remix

Anthony and the Johnsons – Crazy in Love

Bat for Lashes – Daniel

Bebel Gilberto – Bananeira

Cure – Close to me

Yeasayer – Sunrise

Fleetfoxes – Mykonos

The songs in the list have different reason to be listed. Some I really like, some I´ve just happened to hear really often, some even annoy me. Some have cool video, some nice lyrics. One makes me cry. Some remind me of special people I´ve met or some special situations. Some are just totally awesome biking songs (if I would ever again do something so stupid as listening music while rolling down the streets of my beloved town…). Some don´t have a video and for some bands I didn´t find the song that I would wanted to but I put something instead. Oh mine, there would be so many other ones too!

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A school stress. Huge. Fortuntately I have two hands again to write with, yee! I don´t have to wear the sling anymore since couple of days. Have to say that at least it was a visible reason why I might be a bit clumsy or do weird moves since I still can´t lift the arm properly. Oh, the joy to ride my Peugeot for the first time! Again a sign that the world is not a fair place. On a first day that I was back on a bike, I had a flat tyre and had to not just fix it but buy a whole new one and wait again another day. Which meant that I was or would have been back in a bus but I lost my newly bought bus ticket (klippekort). So I was a pedestrian. In a rain. Aint easy.

After the super sunny April, we have had few rainy days again. Which is ok. Next week or two I´m going to be the most efficient and hardworking student. And it means that I should get back to my paper.

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I finally found the artist behind those street figures. Check out here kissmama.dk.

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Back to the streets. Now I´m couple of weeks without the bike. It´s torturing escpecially after I bought my new love, Peugeot 103 Grand sport. The most beautiful bike I´ve ever seen. While I wait to get back on the horses or bikes back again, I´ve been cleaning it with a toothbrush and bensin..Well, I´m sure you will hear A LOT more about us in the future. (Screw you all who are saying that materia doesn´t make you happy. I have a new bike and I´m happy.)

Here´s couple more of those funny little creatures I posted earlier. Small is beautiful. And talking about “the street art”.

Since Friday week ago Copenhagen has (or had for a moment) a new tourist attraction in the middle of the downtown called, called ”Hærværket i Hyskestraede”. A street party with a somewhat wild after party. Lately there has been lot of events and parties etc. in the streets and I really do enjoy them, thas what cities are build for – to live and enjoy and be and so on. It always makes me happy to see people just sitting in front their doors and drinking coffee with some friends on the streets. But I´m not of a big fan of fearing to get a molotow coctail in to my head. There are street parties and street parties.

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