Stockholm

(c)Olga B. 2007.

(c) Olga B. 2007.

Yesterday I with friends of mine visited the capital of Sweden. It's a very nice city =). It looks like from fairy-tale.

One of my favorite children's writer is Astrid Lindgren. I adore all her stories about Karlson, about Pippi and about Emil. These stories are very interesting. Sometimes I re-read them :).

This is the web-site of Astrid Lindgren: http://www.astridlindgren.se/eng

Swimming-pool

Hi! Thank you for taking care about me! =)) Today I've visited this wonderful swimming-pool where European Short Course Swimming Championship for UNICEF 2006 took place in December 7-10. It's the biggest swimming-hall in Helsinki 8). It was my second time there :). I made 5 km or 200 swimming-pools with 25 metres.
"The Mäkelänrinne Swimming Center is the largest swimming center in Finland and the only one made to international standards. It was opened on 10th of May 1999 and became an instant success with more than 600 000 visitors annually" - from here: http://www.helsinki2006.fi

Who we are in fact

This small creature resembles me today in the forest )). He is just a poor tiny creature in the big-big world...

Funny story

Today I've decided to visit local swimming-pool. The usual way should take 20 minutes. But I spent more time trying to find the swimming-pool. I needed to go through the forest. Can you imagine! I lost my way! =) Yes, really!
After 40 minutes I decided to go home. It was not so easy - to find the back way to my home. I was spinning around the forest and couldn't understand, where I am. I asked some people. They show me approximate direction. Finally I found a road and a bus station. I was thinking:"It doesn't matter where the bus will go. In the end it will come to the centre of the city. After that I'll take another bus to my home". 20 minutes later bus arrived. I was glad 8). Fortunately, 10 minutes later the bus stopped on the street which was not far from my home! :) I was happy! So I spent 2 hours on fresh air in forest, trying to find at first swimming-pool and then my home! Because of snowing when I came home my coat and gloves were wet and I was a bit frozen.

I'm so happy to be here ....

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Hello from Finland

Hello dear readers!

Now I'm in Helsinki - the capital of Finland. I like it very much! But don't understand many things because I don't know Finnish. Sometimes it looks very funny! =) People around think that I'm Finnish because of my fair hair and blue eyes ;).

Best regards to all!

Happy New Year! And Merry Christmas to Orthodox!