I know this Christmas many people just got infected by COVID, and won't be with their families. So don't forget to check your friends, drop them a message.
Juho Kuosmanen's movie just won the Cannes 2021 Grand Prix award.
'Compartment No. 6' is the story of a young Finnish woman who escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the Arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of compartment no. 6 to face the truth about their own yearning for human connection.
Aki Kaurismäki won The Grand Prix award with his Man Without a Past in 2002.
today started with an excellent news. since corona started my parents have been stuck at home more and they have been watching too much TV. so I promised my dad that if he joins German language course, and pass exams I will pay all the course and exam fees etc. first he started studying with Duolingo. he passed A1 exam without course. then A2 course started, everything is remote, I think it was 3 months, and the course was over in May. Then he had A2 exam in Goethe instute, and the results announced today. HE PASSED A2 LEVEL 🥳🥳. The certificate is valid fo 3 years. Currently he is in B1 course course and doing well. In autumn he will have B1 exam. I am so happy that I managed to motivate him and he got the results of his work so quickly.
So guys believe in yourself and try! I asked him to study German because many believes it is a difficult language. I thought it would take lots of time to learn but actually he only gave up on watching TV frequently.
Another great movie by Thomas Vinterberg. Well if you have already watched any Vinterberg movies, you just sit and wait curiously for the story. It never disappoints you!
I have to say that I was impressed already with the first moment of the movie. It starts with a quote from Danish philosopher Søren Aabye Kierkegaard who is one of my favorite writer.
- What is youth? A dream.
- What is love? The content of the dream.
I guess after seeing many times Mads Mikkelsen in Vinterberg movies, you already get used to that Danish sadness on his face! As a non-drinker, this movie was pretty interesting to me since drinking is the main subject in this movie.
If you have drinking problem, I would suggest to pass this movie! Since the perception is very personal, it might effect you differently.
* Best International Feature Film and Best Director
I am surprised that no one has recommended this ready-made pizza before. The interesting part is not that is already better than all ready-made pizzas but it is even better than some restaurant pizzas! Since I moved to Helsinki, I have been trying pizzas, going new restaurants, trying ready-made ones etc just to discover more. Damn, how I missed this one and never tried it all..
so I am gonna try one more time! currently I am going through my course notes etc, then gonna take some language level tests and join a new course according to those results. my wild guess is that I am somewhere close to A2. 😅
Should I give up learning finnish and start for swedish? I have been trying to learn it but I think I am very slow. However my friends who started studying swedish made so much progress. Plus people say it will be much easier for me because I already talk German, English and know a bit French. What do you think? 🆘
Nowadays the temperature is between -10 and -20 at night in Helsinki. However those rabbits still hang out around. If you see a rabbit running around at cold freezing midnight, there is only one movie that would make sense: Donnie Darko!
I got this for kitchen. Previously I was not using my kitchen often. Since corona started I have been cooking, trying things and spending more time in kitchen. I wanted to have sth funny but same time motivating haha. And yes motivation is very subjective!
Hyvää Itsenäisyyspäivää! 🇫🇮 Happy Independence Day!
Somehow I woke up early today, thought I could do some outdoor sport, went out, felt cold, took this flag video, came back to home after five minute, now writing this under my blanket 💤