…the place i would like to be.
actually yes, at the moment it’s great to be in finland. i came on friday. i have been meeting a lot of friends and new people with them. there have been exhibition openings, 30th birthdays, contemporary dance theater and election gigs. i’ve seen my dad and my brother (will see baby ilona and my sister-in-law tonight). my uncle’s 60th birthday seminar is in jyväskylä on friday, yet another lovely occasion to meet friends and colleagues. yet another 30th birthday is coming up with the oldest school friends at the weekend. then i’ll meet my mother and my aunt, too.
i’m living with tiina, my spare mom, and her two 9 and 6-year-old girls. it’s really lovely family life.
i’ve been telling everybody that i’m trying to hang out here in finland for most part of 2007. it’s looking pretty positive at the moment. i know already a lot of lovely people and am getting to know more. work is inspiring, i’ve got a job as a researcher until the end of the year and i’m teaching now in march at the university of jyväskylä. i’ve also started an inofficial seminar group in helsinki on discourse theory. there’s a core of three lovely women. in two weeks we’ll see what’s the extended group like.
we have been planning my 30th birthday and the conference in september. it all sounds quite exciting, and perhaps i can start doing things i did abroad here in finland, too, to have a life looking like mine…
