Showing posts with label finland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label finland. Show all posts

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Disco! Finnish Style

I haven't been to any dance clubs yet, but in case I need to prepare I have a lesson review.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Ruska

There's a word in Finnish for when the leaves turn and get all colorful and you go look at them and all that: Ruska. We don't have a word for that in English. But it looks like this:




Thursday, July 10, 2008

Arctic Hysteria

I recently came across this term from an art exhibit: Arctic Hysteria: New Art From Finland.
The show isn't really about being hysterical or insane, but arctic hysteria sounds like some contageous psychological condition... So I had to investigate further. Actic hysteria, also known as pibloktoq, is a condition where you throw off your clothes, run outside into the freezing air and throw yourself into a snow drift (or something like that.) A good account of this in the Inuit is here. Of course in Finland, it's not a neurosis, it's a sport.