About little girls

[secondlina]

 

You don't see that many islamic ladies with Burquas this time of year. It's a type of clothing that mixes badly with winter, snow and winter coats. Islamic religious garbs have always kindoff been in the middle of controversies. Lots of people claim it goes against women rights, other says that if the women does it for herself it's good, but then again, is she doing it for herself because she is brainwashed or because she honestly believes it brings her closer to god. Or maybe it's just a style of modest clothing, the same way a woman chooses to wear baggy pants over a mini skirt. Basically, it's complicated. I still think it looks kinda mystical and beautiful in it's own way. It still must suck to wear one in the winter.

Link came by this weekend and while we walked in the market on saturday, the weather was mighty fine. We did see three women in burquas walk by. 

On sunday, a much less gorgeous day (rain, rain! COLD rain!) Link and I saw some friends and also visited for the first time his new niece, Lumi. Lumi means "Snow" in finnish. Lumi's mom, Maria, is finnish. She's very small. I was worried about taking her in my arms because I drop everything. But they ended up passing her to me anyways. Figures, she got hungry while I holding her and started crying, which made me feel pretty bad. Ah, she's a cute little snowflake. No boy is ever gonna harm her - she has seven uncles. 



Link was a lot better at holding babies then me. I think he likes babies more then me. I prefer children. If they can outrun you, it's more then parenting, it's a challenge! *laughs*

I also saw Bolt with Link. Our favorite line in the movie in when poor Mittens is confronted with Bolt's "Buzz lightyear" syndrome (aka - I am really a superdog with a super laser stare) and says "Now, I feel concerned on a number of levels."

Priceless.

-Isa
 

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"The Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the U.S. has a large population of Finnish origins."
Really? have to drop by some day... heh heh

I actually heard that after the Russian occupation ended and the civil war started many people left to America... And It seems they didn't feel they needed a change, loggers and farmers... that's what everyone did here as well, while giving the international hand sine to the long winter

Your right about that, but it would seem we have something else in common with the Turks... We love KEBAB!

[anna-nimmie-tee.livejournal.com]

The Finnish population of the U.P. of Michigan has been there at least over a century. They probably started emigrating to the American Midwest about the same time as the Swedes and Norwegians to Minnesota, Wisconsin, & the Dakotas. When contacts and marriage with other ethic groups is limited, languages or vestiges or languages do tend to survive in the States.

When I was a little kid, we moved to a small, eastern Pennsylvanian town that had been founded by Germans in 1740. In the 1960s you could still hear the German dialect of the original settlers spoken on the streets by the old folks. Modern German speakers do have a difficult time with it, though. The same thing might happen if you tried to speak modern Finnish with one of the Michigan speakers whose knowledge of Finnish was passed down through time in the family.

[(Anonymous)]

My finnish wouldn't be understood outside the most southern parts of Finland! Heh, you ever heard of slang? They are REALLY powerful here...

Well if they have been there for that long they must be the ones that ran from the Sweden's rule... (Or they could see into the future and just barely avoided THE bloodiest time in Finland's history)