Roadside Discreet

Breakfast at 2 p.m.

Koko I miss you!

When times get rough

It's quite okay to concentrate on other stuff.

Like books, food and yoga.

Good books I've read recently:
-On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
-Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
-The World According to Garp by John Irving

All by excellent authors so it should come as no surprise that they were the type of books that once you finished them you had to take a moment and not read anything else for a minute. That you were kind of left with this feeling of longing after the last page.

Good food I've eaten recently:
-nectarines
-zucchini with garlic and olive oil
-pebre chileno with bread

That's it.

Dear Okaasan

(here pictured with my niece Aino)

I know you'd love your daughter to understand Japanese but unfortunately I don't. So your comments on the comments section are pretty much of no use. But please keep writing them, I don't mind. All I need to know is that you love me and that's already obvious to me so all the other stuff you can write in Japanese.

People in Helsinki

Go! Go! Go!

P.S. I heard the menu of the opening, sounds so good you could just go because of that!

This day

sucks, big time. I am sick and I've been home all day, alone. The only thing that has made it worthwhile is talking with Tuukka and laughing at his jokes. And Stephen K. Schuster. I like his work.

DEAR ALL,
MY LAPTOP IS BASICALLY DEAD SO UPDATING THE BLOG IS DIFFICULT. EVERYTHING IS OKAY HERE. I AM DOING GOOD. I HAD A LOVELY CHRISTMAS, AN INTERESTING BIRTHDAY AND A FUN NEW YEAR. I WILL TELL YALL MORE LATER. PLEASE WRITE TO ME, E-MAIL ME, ANYTHING. I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHATSUP.
PEACE AND LOVE
MAIJA
P.S. THE STATE OF ISRAEL IS A DISGUST. KEEP THE HOPE ALIVE. DON'T FORGET.

Back to nature

On Sunday me and Danilo went to discover our long lost roots to the nature.... in Viña del Mar, a commercial, hotels-by-the-beach city next to Valpo. But the good thing about Viña is that you can actually find a spot of nature there. It was great. The birds were singing, I could smell the grass, the soil, the trees.

First we stopped at a park. Danilo went to collect small stones so we could play a game.





Then a moment of exercise and exhaustion shot by Danilo.




From the park we climbed to a forest nearby. We found all kinds of interesting things there: cactuses, plants, a mysterious gate and even a Christmas tree for our house. I carried it in my bag. Danilo said it's the perfect example of a lady's purse, you can find everything there - even a xmas tree.










After the adventure in the forest we returned to the park. We sat under a jakaranda tree, ate sandwiches and drank juice. Then we played baseball and football with a ball made of a tinfoil to the amusement of the numeral lovebirds gathered on different parts of the park to cuddle with their mates.








Then we went by the sea. Yesterday the sun was up the longest of the whole year and it sure did feel like it too.

Hip hop, dogs and drawings

On Friday we went to see a free rap/break dance show at Plaza Anibal Pinto. The rap was kinda boring and the break dance was sorta ordinary so instead we hanged out with the dogs and Nico drew us on the back of the copy of my passport.