Post 10: Continuation of Post 9

So i tried to do this yesterday. And spent around an hour writing on my phone befroe I pushed the Back Button and, poof, all my writing was gone. But i wanted to write a bit more about Helsinki since I am not so tired anymore. So i will start with another list of key words, followed by a list of key phrases i learned in both finnish and swedish.

Keywords (to accopany above list):
Illegal student Party Place
Karaoke
Dance Dance Revolution
Theater Tour
Black Licorice (yuck)
Tar Liqour


Key Phrases:

Hello=Moi (finnish)
Thank you=kiitos(finnish)
Fuck=Vittu(finnish)
Excuse me Sir, your reindeer shit in my purse= Ursakta, din ren sket I min handvaska (swedish, and some of the letters have two dots above them, idk how to do that on the computer)
And in finnish: Anteeksi, porosi paskoi kasilaukkuuni

I'll add here that I loved trying to read the finnish street signs. They have named may thinks words with a sieres of 3 or 4 k's followed by the same number of U's and T's and i guess its just easy for them but the words don't even look real to me.

So onto the story:

Even though i stayed out late almost every night I actually managed to eat quite a healthy diet in Helsinki, but never better than at Annina's family summer house in espoo(?) out there her parents Christian and Ulla have a beautiful garden from which we ate carrots, potatoes and greanbeans. and they have plum and apple trees (which weren't quite ripe yet but still found some tasty plums) and bushes with berries which they made into some kind of delicious drink by boiling the berries, and stored in their "cellar" which looks like a hobbit home.
The best meal I had was when Christian smoked a Salmon for Me and Annina and Tabby (Annina's friend from Australia who also happened to be staying with Annina for a few days).

First he salted the fish fairly heavily and then but it in a box with a few different kinds of leaves and sticks, their scent was to cook into the fish. the end product was on of the most juicy and delicious pieces of fish I have ever eaten, Christian siad that the trick is to not get the fire so hot so the fish doesn't dry up.

It was actually very touching to have Christan prepare one of his favorite meals for us becasue he hasn't been able to eat, or taste a thing since he bagn chemo treatment in June. The treatmeants have finished but he must give his throat, right where ke held his cell phone, a chance to heal becasue the chemo pasically made a jumbled mess out of his throat.
He had to take his meals by filling a plastic bottle with some liquid mixture that looked like baby food which connected to a small plastic hose that ran through his belly and into his stomach directly. Can you imagine 3 months of that?!

And what was worse he couldn't speak for months before i arrived. But he had just regained the use of his voice a few days before I got there, which was very nice becasue he told me interesting stories while we sat in the sauna together.

One story that Annina told me which actually managed to shed some humorous light on the situation was that since her father had regained his voice, any time that Ulla spoke with him he would complain that his voice hurt and he couldn't speak, but when the Cat would get outside for more than an hour or two Christian would go out and call loudly for her. Which I heard him do as well. I think it is a sign that he is recovering well, he tooke me out on the boat once and also drove in and out of helsinki a few times while I was there. Hopefully the treatment worked.

Ok that is enuff computer time for today.

TTFN