Here we were learning to pay attention to the shadow and then to the light.
Here I was having fun with ink at home.
These last ones I have done at home in a few seconds :) I wonder where these weird images come from?
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Drawing and painting vol I
About 3 weeks ago I started to take private art lessons from a professional artist called Nuax (www.nuax.dk) It has truly inspired me. Here are couple of examples from the last week's learning process. Some of these are made at his class, and some I have done at home. I will try to add some drawings to my blog once in a whil.
Here we were learning to pay attention to the shadow and then to the light.
Here I was having fun with ink at home.
These last ones I have done at home in a few seconds :) I wonder where these weird images come from?
Here we were learning to pay attention to the shadow and then to the light.
Here I was having fun with ink at home.
These last ones I have done at home in a few seconds :) I wonder where these weird images come from?
30 minutes walk in my neighbourhood
I could play tabletennis here. Several tables like this painted by HuskMitNavn at Sønder Boulevard.
One of the oddest things in my neighbourhood is this hairdresser boutique. They have the most extravagant window decorations. I have never seen nobody inside this shop. This time I saw an old woman sitting on the customers chair spraying her own hair...I felt spooky..
The Thai massage parlours have the wierdest window decorations. There were about 10 Thai massage shops on my walk.
Magnolia trees at Otto Krabbes Plads.
Choose your way at Skydebanehaven.
I love this! Nature is dominating over the urban. 
These photos are taken on a 30 min. walk in my neighbourhood while I was waiting my laundry to be done. There are of course countless of wonderful things I paid attention on my walk, and here I share couple of them with you. This is how wonderful Vesterbro is.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
About being a vegetarian
Before reading this, please take 3 minutes and see this video, if you haven’t by now:
www.meatrix1.com
Defining to you: Why am I eating meat?
Try to define first to yourself, that what are your reasons for eating meat products, and why have you not started a vegetarian diet yet.
What are the values that you protect by eating meat? What do you stand for by eating meat? What do you teach to your (future) children by eating eat?
Would it be ever possible for you to become a vegetarian, and what could be the possible reasons for it?
Why am I vegetarian?
I want to be aware of my short life while I am living it. To be aware, I need to be mindful. Concerning food, I want to be mindful of the products I buy, being mindful of what I eat and drink. This is why I am trying to buy good products, eat less artificial products, I am trying to become as vegan as possible, and I have now trying to cut drastically on my alcohol consumption. I don’t smoke, and I use medicine only when it is absolutely necessary (which is barely ever). I want to be good to myself, and threat myself well by consuming good and healthy products. Ecological and organic products might cost more, but by eating less but better (which is enough) and by not using so much money for alcohol, makes also the living costs bearable.
I try to make this a short text, and therefore might cut some important topics. In the following text I name some single reasons for this, not all of them. You can always find more information about being a vegetarian and vegan from different internet sites.
The Danish vegetarian society writes in their brochure the main reasons why many people become vegetarian:
Why to be vegetarian?
• Stop bad treatment against animals
• Protect environment
• Improve your health
• Have a sustainable way of life
You would like all these issues to be true in your life as well, right?
Let’s find out more:
• When you are eating meat, an animal has to die for your meal. This has always been an important factor for me for not eating meat. I find it really difficult thought, that thousands and millions of animals are dying each day and week because of human consumption. I like animals, and don’t wish them to die because of a steak which could have been substituted by a delicious veggie-burger.
No animal has to die or suffer, when I am a vegetarian.
• The animals are suffering the way they are grown up and killed. Nobody wants to die, and the animals are sensing the same fear in the atmosphere as anybody would do, when there is this sense that one is going to die the next minute. It is an atmosphere of horror, and this essence of horror is transmitting through the meat to the person who eats it. The conditions, in which the animals are living and dying, are horrible. As a vegetarian, I want to promote animal rights.
Thich Nhat Hanh writes the following:
”We Are What We Eat”
Our anger, our frustration, our despair, have much to do with our body and the food we eat. We must work out a strategy of eating, of consuming to protect ourselves from anger and violence. Eating is an aspect of civilization. The way we grow our food, the kind of food we eat, and the way we eat it has much to do with civilization because the choices we make can bring about peace and relieve suffering.
The food we eat can play a very important role in our anger. Our food may contain anger. When we eat flesh of an animal with mad cow disease, anger is there in the meat. But we must also look at the other kinds of food we eat. When we eat an egg or a chicken, we know that the egg or chicken can also contain a lot of anger. We are eating anger, and therefore we express anger.
Nowadays, chickens are raised in large-scale modern farms where they cannot walk, run, or seek food in the soil. They are fed solely by humans. They are kept in small cages and cannot move at all. Day and night they have to stand. Imagine that you have no right to walk or to run. Imagine that you have to stay day and night at the same place. You would become mad. So the chickens become mad.
In order for the chickens to produce more eggs, the farmers create artificial days and nights. They use indoor lighting to create shorter day and shorter night so that the chickens believe that the 24 h have passed, and they produce more eggs. There is a lot of anger, a lot of frustration and much suffering in the chickens. They express their anger and frustration by attacking the chickens next to them. They use their beaks to peck and wound each others. They cause each others to bleed, to suffer, and to die. That is why farmers now cut the beaks off all the chickens, to prevent them from attacking each other out of frustration.
So when you eat the flesh or egg of such a chicken, you are eating anger and frustration. So be aware. Be careful what you eat. If you eat anger, you will become and express anger. If you eat despair, you will express despair. If you eat frustration, you will express frustration. ”
You can read more in Thich Nhat Hanh’s books, to get a more whole idea of what he is trying to say about eating being connected with everything else, about how to become more mindful in general. I believe this is true in my life:
I am living happier and more mindful life, when I am a vegetarian.
What about meat from ecological farming?
The ecological and some traditional small farms have better conditions for the animals than in the large meat factory farms, but often these farms are also lacking much of being animal-friendly places. Also in ecological farms, the animals are often stressed out and suffer pain. All the animals, are they growing in the ecological farms or not, are suffering from the animal transportation and slaughtering. The animal still has to die.
• Meat production is directly linked with several environmental problems, such as water contamination, cutting of the rainforest, erosion, desertification, and amount of CO2 gasses. The meat production is much heavier on the Earth than vegetable production. The meat production uses much more energy. Your environmental footstep is therefore much smaller if you are a vegetarian and considerably smaller if you are a vegan.
Have you thought that being vegetarian is not healthy, because you are missing some certain minerals or proteins?
The most typical question that vegetarians face, is the question that aren’t we missing some important proteins? Well, there are actually several positive health related issues to become vegetarian. The vegetarian diet includes more fibers, vitamins, and minerals than compared to for example a typical Danish diet. Vegetarians are seldom suffering from the diseases typical for meat-eaters, such as over-weight, heart diseases, high blood pressure, type II diabetes, diet-based cancers, and so on.
The vegetarians have even higher life expectancy.
There is much literature and advices available, that how you can make sure that you get all the proteins and minerals that you need as a vegetarian. The calcium you can get e.g. from nuts, cabbages, almonds, sesame seads etc. D-vitamin you get from forest mushrooms, soya drinks etc. You can learn more about these things.
I have been vegetarian now about 13 years, and I have never had any kind of illness related to the fact that I am a vegetarian.
***
I have noticed that recently I am getting more and more amazed that there are still so many people who eat meat. It has become almost absurd idea for me to put dead flesh of another living being to my mouth, and to see how common this is in our culture. The amount of meat packed in plastic in the supermarket is difficult for me to see. How much happier I would be to watch the same amount of living animals, than to watch all that meat packed in those plastic containers. The whole meat industry is so industrialized, so inhuman, and so aggressive.
Maybe you are explaining your meat-eating habits by your background, culture and the way you grew up by eating meat? Now is now, and today it is you yourself, who makes these decisions in your life. Your background doesn’t make these decisions, but you have the autonomy to eat exactly the way you consciously decide.
Could you try it first for a couple of weeks, and see how you like it, how your mind and body feels afterwards? It doesn’t matter in which point you are in your life at the moment, you can become vegetarian in any moment.
Why not trying some good vegetarian recipes at home, and treating you in a good vegetarian restaurant on town?
Some movies to look (here also links to trailers):
-Food, Inc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqQVll-MP3Iv
-Fast Food Nation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc_z623Wsro
-Temple Grandin. (not so much about food, but anyway interesting story connected with meat production) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHxxOKnH9YE
Other recommendations:
• Be in favor of locally produced products
• Eat according to the seasons (use seasonal products)
• Take your own shopping bad to the shop, also a durable net bag for vegetables etc.
• Get information about what is the philosophy behind dumpster-divers. I have great respect for them, even though I must admit that I have never tried it myself.
If you decide to become a vegetarian, you have my full support
www.meatrix1.com
Defining to you: Why am I eating meat?
Try to define first to yourself, that what are your reasons for eating meat products, and why have you not started a vegetarian diet yet.
What are the values that you protect by eating meat? What do you stand for by eating meat? What do you teach to your (future) children by eating eat?
Would it be ever possible for you to become a vegetarian, and what could be the possible reasons for it?
Why am I vegetarian?
I want to be aware of my short life while I am living it. To be aware, I need to be mindful. Concerning food, I want to be mindful of the products I buy, being mindful of what I eat and drink. This is why I am trying to buy good products, eat less artificial products, I am trying to become as vegan as possible, and I have now trying to cut drastically on my alcohol consumption. I don’t smoke, and I use medicine only when it is absolutely necessary (which is barely ever). I want to be good to myself, and threat myself well by consuming good and healthy products. Ecological and organic products might cost more, but by eating less but better (which is enough) and by not using so much money for alcohol, makes also the living costs bearable.
I try to make this a short text, and therefore might cut some important topics. In the following text I name some single reasons for this, not all of them. You can always find more information about being a vegetarian and vegan from different internet sites.
The Danish vegetarian society writes in their brochure the main reasons why many people become vegetarian:
Why to be vegetarian?
• Stop bad treatment against animals
• Protect environment
• Improve your health
• Have a sustainable way of life
You would like all these issues to be true in your life as well, right?
Let’s find out more:
• When you are eating meat, an animal has to die for your meal. This has always been an important factor for me for not eating meat. I find it really difficult thought, that thousands and millions of animals are dying each day and week because of human consumption. I like animals, and don’t wish them to die because of a steak which could have been substituted by a delicious veggie-burger.
No animal has to die or suffer, when I am a vegetarian.
• The animals are suffering the way they are grown up and killed. Nobody wants to die, and the animals are sensing the same fear in the atmosphere as anybody would do, when there is this sense that one is going to die the next minute. It is an atmosphere of horror, and this essence of horror is transmitting through the meat to the person who eats it. The conditions, in which the animals are living and dying, are horrible. As a vegetarian, I want to promote animal rights.
Thich Nhat Hanh writes the following:
”We Are What We Eat”
Our anger, our frustration, our despair, have much to do with our body and the food we eat. We must work out a strategy of eating, of consuming to protect ourselves from anger and violence. Eating is an aspect of civilization. The way we grow our food, the kind of food we eat, and the way we eat it has much to do with civilization because the choices we make can bring about peace and relieve suffering.
The food we eat can play a very important role in our anger. Our food may contain anger. When we eat flesh of an animal with mad cow disease, anger is there in the meat. But we must also look at the other kinds of food we eat. When we eat an egg or a chicken, we know that the egg or chicken can also contain a lot of anger. We are eating anger, and therefore we express anger.
Nowadays, chickens are raised in large-scale modern farms where they cannot walk, run, or seek food in the soil. They are fed solely by humans. They are kept in small cages and cannot move at all. Day and night they have to stand. Imagine that you have no right to walk or to run. Imagine that you have to stay day and night at the same place. You would become mad. So the chickens become mad.
In order for the chickens to produce more eggs, the farmers create artificial days and nights. They use indoor lighting to create shorter day and shorter night so that the chickens believe that the 24 h have passed, and they produce more eggs. There is a lot of anger, a lot of frustration and much suffering in the chickens. They express their anger and frustration by attacking the chickens next to them. They use their beaks to peck and wound each others. They cause each others to bleed, to suffer, and to die. That is why farmers now cut the beaks off all the chickens, to prevent them from attacking each other out of frustration.
So when you eat the flesh or egg of such a chicken, you are eating anger and frustration. So be aware. Be careful what you eat. If you eat anger, you will become and express anger. If you eat despair, you will express despair. If you eat frustration, you will express frustration. ”
You can read more in Thich Nhat Hanh’s books, to get a more whole idea of what he is trying to say about eating being connected with everything else, about how to become more mindful in general. I believe this is true in my life:
I am living happier and more mindful life, when I am a vegetarian.
What about meat from ecological farming?
The ecological and some traditional small farms have better conditions for the animals than in the large meat factory farms, but often these farms are also lacking much of being animal-friendly places. Also in ecological farms, the animals are often stressed out and suffer pain. All the animals, are they growing in the ecological farms or not, are suffering from the animal transportation and slaughtering. The animal still has to die.
• Meat production is directly linked with several environmental problems, such as water contamination, cutting of the rainforest, erosion, desertification, and amount of CO2 gasses. The meat production is much heavier on the Earth than vegetable production. The meat production uses much more energy. Your environmental footstep is therefore much smaller if you are a vegetarian and considerably smaller if you are a vegan.
Have you thought that being vegetarian is not healthy, because you are missing some certain minerals or proteins?
The most typical question that vegetarians face, is the question that aren’t we missing some important proteins? Well, there are actually several positive health related issues to become vegetarian. The vegetarian diet includes more fibers, vitamins, and minerals than compared to for example a typical Danish diet. Vegetarians are seldom suffering from the diseases typical for meat-eaters, such as over-weight, heart diseases, high blood pressure, type II diabetes, diet-based cancers, and so on.
The vegetarians have even higher life expectancy.
There is much literature and advices available, that how you can make sure that you get all the proteins and minerals that you need as a vegetarian. The calcium you can get e.g. from nuts, cabbages, almonds, sesame seads etc. D-vitamin you get from forest mushrooms, soya drinks etc. You can learn more about these things.
I have been vegetarian now about 13 years, and I have never had any kind of illness related to the fact that I am a vegetarian.
***
I have noticed that recently I am getting more and more amazed that there are still so many people who eat meat. It has become almost absurd idea for me to put dead flesh of another living being to my mouth, and to see how common this is in our culture. The amount of meat packed in plastic in the supermarket is difficult for me to see. How much happier I would be to watch the same amount of living animals, than to watch all that meat packed in those plastic containers. The whole meat industry is so industrialized, so inhuman, and so aggressive.
Maybe you are explaining your meat-eating habits by your background, culture and the way you grew up by eating meat? Now is now, and today it is you yourself, who makes these decisions in your life. Your background doesn’t make these decisions, but you have the autonomy to eat exactly the way you consciously decide.
Could you try it first for a couple of weeks, and see how you like it, how your mind and body feels afterwards? It doesn’t matter in which point you are in your life at the moment, you can become vegetarian in any moment.
Why not trying some good vegetarian recipes at home, and treating you in a good vegetarian restaurant on town?
Some movies to look (here also links to trailers):
-Food, Inc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqQVll-MP3Iv
-Fast Food Nation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc_z623Wsro
-Temple Grandin. (not so much about food, but anyway interesting story connected with meat production) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHxxOKnH9YE
Other recommendations:
• Be in favor of locally produced products
• Eat according to the seasons (use seasonal products)
• Take your own shopping bad to the shop, also a durable net bag for vegetables etc.
• Get information about what is the philosophy behind dumpster-divers. I have great respect for them, even though I must admit that I have never tried it myself.
If you decide to become a vegetarian, you have my full support
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Fort Knox
Fort Knox goldmine, Alaska
When I was studying in Alaska in 2004, we made a school trip to Fort Knox goldmine. I have bunch of absurd photos from there. Enormous machines digging and dynamites exploding, creating huge holes in the Earth.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Ha-Ha Happy Puppets
Because I have on my personal blog KOSMOS & KARHU more followers (=4 persons) than in our newly established HA-HA HAPPY PUPPETS blog (=0 followers), I would like to mention here that we have this other wonderful blog as well, which focuses to our puppet theatre project:
http://ha-ha-happypuppets.blogspot.com/
http://ha-ha-happypuppets.blogspot.com/
Monday, February 15, 2010
New picture and also interesting puppeteering course!
Dear all,
Today I had to make a little description of myself at work and send a photo. I didn't have a suitable photo, so I asked my boyfriend to send me one from his computer. He send me this, taken last weekend in Helsinki when I am trying an organic, vegan, blueberry facial mask (from: www.lush.com)
I wasn't that excited, so I decided to draw one myself, using again my favourite tool Paint, which was also back in the old days the first computer programme that I ever used. Here is the picture:
PUPPET THEATRE:
Our famous puppet theatre project has been proceeding quite slowly, so I decided to sign-up to one puppeteering course, which is organised at the Danish Development Centre for Performing Arts (Odsherred Teaterskole)
Information here: http://www.nyscenekunst.dk/opslag.asp?page=27&ver=uk
The course is arranged during 19.04 - 21.04.2010 and is called "Introduction to puppet- and animationstheater by Bjarne Sandborg and Hans Hartvich
Today I had to make a little description of myself at work and send a photo. I didn't have a suitable photo, so I asked my boyfriend to send me one from his computer. He send me this, taken last weekend in Helsinki when I am trying an organic, vegan, blueberry facial mask (from: www.lush.com)
I wasn't that excited, so I decided to draw one myself, using again my favourite tool Paint, which was also back in the old days the first computer programme that I ever used. Here is the picture:
PUPPET THEATRE:
Our famous puppet theatre project has been proceeding quite slowly, so I decided to sign-up to one puppeteering course, which is organised at the Danish Development Centre for Performing Arts (Odsherred Teaterskole)
Information here: http://www.nyscenekunst.dk/opslag.asp?page=27&ver=uk
The course is arranged during 19.04 - 21.04.2010 and is called "Introduction to puppet- and animationstheater by Bjarne Sandborg and Hans Hartvich
Monday, February 8, 2010
One real odd old story of mine...
This is one of the weirdest things that ever has happened to me.
It is some years ago, when I was still living in my hometown Joensuu, Finland. It was that year, when the movie Moulin Rouge came to video rental. At those days DVD was a relatively new thing, and I was also still having a VHS player (and when I still had a TV, I haven't had TV since 2003).
Anyways, I had agreed with some friend(s) of mine that we would rent Moulin Rouge and watch it together. There is maybe 3 video rental places in Joensuu, and I toured all of them, but they all had rented Moulin Rouge out. It was a new film, and many people wanted to see it. Disappointed after all this effort, I went to a local department store, Anttila. I went to their movie section, and I noticed that one of my other favorite films, Amelie, was on sales.
I decided that I would buy this Amelie VHS-cassette instead, and that we would watch that. I randomly selected one of those Amelie-movies, and paid my purchase. Before my friends arriving, I opened the newly bought cassette. The VHS cassette had a text Amelie. I put it in my VHS-player....and what happens: I was totally shocked, because there didn't start Amelie, but Moulin Rouge!!!! Moulin Rouge, without Finnish subtitles, commercials etc. like usually in those VHS-cassettes. I think those two films were not even produced in the same year...
I remember calling to my sister and friends about this. We watched Moulin Rouge.. What I regret now later, is that I went back to the department store the next day, and exchanged that cassette to a real Amelie film. But this remains as one of the weirdest mysteries of my everyday life...
It is some years ago, when I was still living in my hometown Joensuu, Finland. It was that year, when the movie Moulin Rouge came to video rental. At those days DVD was a relatively new thing, and I was also still having a VHS player (and when I still had a TV, I haven't had TV since 2003).
Anyways, I had agreed with some friend(s) of mine that we would rent Moulin Rouge and watch it together. There is maybe 3 video rental places in Joensuu, and I toured all of them, but they all had rented Moulin Rouge out. It was a new film, and many people wanted to see it. Disappointed after all this effort, I went to a local department store, Anttila. I went to their movie section, and I noticed that one of my other favorite films, Amelie, was on sales.
I decided that I would buy this Amelie VHS-cassette instead, and that we would watch that. I randomly selected one of those Amelie-movies, and paid my purchase. Before my friends arriving, I opened the newly bought cassette. The VHS cassette had a text Amelie. I put it in my VHS-player....and what happens: I was totally shocked, because there didn't start Amelie, but Moulin Rouge!!!! Moulin Rouge, without Finnish subtitles, commercials etc. like usually in those VHS-cassettes. I think those two films were not even produced in the same year...
I remember calling to my sister and friends about this. We watched Moulin Rouge.. What I regret now later, is that I went back to the department store the next day, and exchanged that cassette to a real Amelie film. But this remains as one of the weirdest mysteries of my everyday life...
Sunday, February 7, 2010
International volunteering, job, international possibilities, living in Finland and Denmark
Dear all,
Quite often I have been asked about interesting possibilities to go volunteering, to participate some international activities, or to find a job or a flat in Copenhagen. Therefore I have decided that I try to use this blog more to inform about those opportunities that I find interesting, and which might be useful to some. I will be updating this list when I have more time, here just some preliminary links:
VOLUNTEERING:
Volunteer camps for all ages:
A really good database for volunteer projects around the world. Usually the participation requiers, that you first find an organisation which can ”send” you to the camp: http://www.workcamps.info/volunteer/select-your-language.php
I have used this organisation in Finland: http://www.kvtfinland.org/
Volunteer and youth camps in Europe:
http://www.platformnet.net/
Volunteering for 3-12 months for 18-30 year olds:
For 18-30 year old citizens of European and Euro-Med countries (not only EU-countries), the best option is this: Webguide for young people interested in going to EVS: http://www.evsguide.eu/int/youth-in-action/evsguide/index2.html
Database of sending and receiving EVS-organisations: http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm
Please send me a message if you have any questions after reading these websites. There you get a pretty clear idea what this programme is about. Concerning EVS programme, remember, that it should be 100 % free for the young people, and your organisation cannot take any participation fee etc. From you for participation.
INFORMATION ABOUT STUDYING, WORKING AND LIVING IN FINLAND:
Here you will find all the necessary information about studying in Finland, scholarships, practical training places, exchanges, practical issues etc: http://www.studyinfinland.fi/
Job databases in Finland:
www.mol.fi
www.aarresaari.net
INFORMATION FOR FINNISH YOUTH FOR GOING ABROAD TO STUDY, VOLUNTEER AND WORK:
www.maailmalle.net
http://www.cimo.fi/Resource.phx/cimo/mainpage/mainpage.htx
http://www.alli.fi/sivu.php?artikkeli_id=95
INFORMATION ABOUT STUDYING, WORKING AND LIVING IN DENMARK:
Studying in Denmark:
In Danish: http://www.iu.dk/
In English: http://en.iu.dk/
Job databases:
The job databases are mostly in Danish. Below information about the possibilities in English.
www.jobnet.dk
www.stepstone.dk
www.jobindex.dk
http://www.job-guiden.dk/
http://www.job-i-staten.dk/site/index.asp
Job bank of the University of Copenhagen: http://www.jobbank.ku.dk/
For students: www.moment.dk
In English: www.jobsincopenhagen.com
For job adds in English, check out also Copenhagen Post newspaper. You can find some announcements in English also in the other above mentioned homepages.
Jobs at the Nordic Council of Ministers (if you speak fluent Danish, Swedish or Norwegian):
http://www.norden.org/da/ledige-stillinger
Some interesting options in my opinion:
http://flygtning.dk/om-dfh/stillinger/
http://www.ms.dk/sw778.asp
Apartments for rent in Copenhagen:
http://www.dba.dk/asp/Soegning/soegning.asp?RubrikId=1430
Check out also the University Post newspaper and the Copenhagen Post. The closest neighbourhoods to find out a flat are København V, N, K, Ø, NV and S, and Frederiksberg. In my opinion the nicest area to live is Vesterbro (København V), but many prefer also Nørrebro (København N). The more posh neighbourhoods which are calm and nice areas (but some say that abit boring) are also Frederiksberg and Østerbro (København Ø). Some like also the central, old neighbourhoods of Christianshavn and Islands Brygge. Some neighbourhoods abit further, such as Valby, can also work out nice for you who is looking for a flat in Copenhagen. It depends alot about the actual flat and the precise location.
WORKING ABROAD:
Jobs in international organisations in Europe: www.eurobussels.com
Quite often I have been asked about interesting possibilities to go volunteering, to participate some international activities, or to find a job or a flat in Copenhagen. Therefore I have decided that I try to use this blog more to inform about those opportunities that I find interesting, and which might be useful to some. I will be updating this list when I have more time, here just some preliminary links:
VOLUNTEERING:
Volunteer camps for all ages:
A really good database for volunteer projects around the world. Usually the participation requiers, that you first find an organisation which can ”send” you to the camp: http://www.workcamps.info/volunteer/select-your-language.php
I have used this organisation in Finland: http://www.kvtfinland.org/
Volunteer and youth camps in Europe:
http://www.platformnet.net/
Volunteering for 3-12 months for 18-30 year olds:
For 18-30 year old citizens of European and Euro-Med countries (not only EU-countries), the best option is this: Webguide for young people interested in going to EVS: http://www.evsguide.eu/int/youth-in-action/evsguide/index2.html
Database of sending and receiving EVS-organisations: http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm
Please send me a message if you have any questions after reading these websites. There you get a pretty clear idea what this programme is about. Concerning EVS programme, remember, that it should be 100 % free for the young people, and your organisation cannot take any participation fee etc. From you for participation.
INFORMATION ABOUT STUDYING, WORKING AND LIVING IN FINLAND:
Here you will find all the necessary information about studying in Finland, scholarships, practical training places, exchanges, practical issues etc: http://www.studyinfinland.fi/
Job databases in Finland:
www.mol.fi
www.aarresaari.net
INFORMATION FOR FINNISH YOUTH FOR GOING ABROAD TO STUDY, VOLUNTEER AND WORK:
www.maailmalle.net
http://www.cimo.fi/Resource.phx/cimo/mainpage/mainpage.htx
http://www.alli.fi/sivu.php?artikkeli_id=95
INFORMATION ABOUT STUDYING, WORKING AND LIVING IN DENMARK:
Studying in Denmark:
In Danish: http://www.iu.dk/
In English: http://en.iu.dk/
Job databases:
The job databases are mostly in Danish. Below information about the possibilities in English.
www.jobnet.dk
www.stepstone.dk
www.jobindex.dk
http://www.job-guiden.dk/
http://www.job-i-staten.dk/site/index.asp
Job bank of the University of Copenhagen: http://www.jobbank.ku.dk/
For students: www.moment.dk
In English: www.jobsincopenhagen.com
For job adds in English, check out also Copenhagen Post newspaper. You can find some announcements in English also in the other above mentioned homepages.
Jobs at the Nordic Council of Ministers (if you speak fluent Danish, Swedish or Norwegian):
http://www.norden.org/da/ledige-stillinger
Some interesting options in my opinion:
http://flygtning.dk/om-dfh/stillinger/
http://www.ms.dk/sw778.asp
Apartments for rent in Copenhagen:
http://www.dba.dk/asp/Soegning/soegning.asp?RubrikId=1430
Check out also the University Post newspaper and the Copenhagen Post. The closest neighbourhoods to find out a flat are København V, N, K, Ø, NV and S, and Frederiksberg. In my opinion the nicest area to live is Vesterbro (København V), but many prefer also Nørrebro (København N). The more posh neighbourhoods which are calm and nice areas (but some say that abit boring) are also Frederiksberg and Østerbro (København Ø). Some like also the central, old neighbourhoods of Christianshavn and Islands Brygge. Some neighbourhoods abit further, such as Valby, can also work out nice for you who is looking for a flat in Copenhagen. It depends alot about the actual flat and the precise location.
WORKING ABROAD:
Jobs in international organisations in Europe: www.eurobussels.com
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Last evening in St.Petersburg
I just arrived from St.Petersburg, where I was the last couple of days. This picture is taken by my mobile phone the last evening about at 22.15. The quality of the photo is not very good, but I took it with my new touch phone which I don't know how to use very well. I was staying at the Radisson SAS Royal hotel, which is located nicely at the Nevsky prospekt. Last evening I had a meeting and a dinner together with my two colleagues. We met at 19.30 at the hotel bar, and we didn't leave the hotel at all during the evening. Before this, I had spend some time in my room by relaxing and meditating. I left the usual mess behind.
I was quite surprised when I returned to my room at 22.15. I suppose the cleaning ladies had been in my room while I was at the hotel bar, and they had arranged my bed and put my top to lay on the bed like this. The bottles in the bathroom had been rearranged.
The remaining question is, that how did they know that I use this top as my night shirt, in stead of just folding it amongst the other clothes on the chair?
Spooky...?
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Creative peaks formed into posters
There is at least two times in my life that I got a creative moment and participated in competition, where you had to design a poster.
In Nov/Dec 2008 I participated a competition to design a poster to the famous rock festival in my home town. The festival takes place in the middle of the woods of Joensuu, and there is alot of open space and some huge festival tents. My vision was to show some UFOs surfing above the festival, and the rays coming from the UFOs are like festival tents. The colours are really fitting to the northern location. I used paint-programme and it took me maybe 10 minutes to create this masterpiece of my mind.
I didn't win the poster competition, and neither got nominated.
The other time I found a competition in the internet, where you also had to design a poster for the festival, but for an imaginary festival, where you also had to invent a name. I think my "Vibes on Bear 2009" festival poster is a really sympatic and unique poster, and the set is pretty awesome. If possible, maybe I arrange this festival one day. This online competition was sponsored by Adidas Originals.
This time neither my piece of art didn't get further nominations.
But if this kind of possibilities arise again, I will try the third time.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
The living figures on the ice
Metsäkartano 01.01.2010.Can you see those couple of small dots on the right side of the picture just near the horizon? There is going my sister and a friend with their two dogs. My sister and the friend wanted those two dogs to become lovers, but they didn't know that the male one was gay. There was another nice love story, but with another dog. In this picture my sister and the friend are talking out loud and laughing, and the dogs are running crazy around and biting each others necks.
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