Tag: Finland

Snow baby

Mia4 Comments
snowy street
Snow came 2 days ago

I am a snow baby no matter what age I get. It’s been snowing and it’s snowing again at this moment. But it will melt next week when the rain arrives. Then life blows again. I love walking on it and in it. In the Southern Finland, it’s never certain if there will be snow in the winter. This year those days were only a few. Weather here is weird. One day it’s sunny and there’s signs of spring. The next it’s snowing and it’s cold. Every year it surprises drivers. The schools and work places never get shut because of snow. Trains and buses gets in trouble but we still manage to continue with our lives. It’s not like in America where a little snow stops everything. Here we find it silly.

This week the South had a winter holiday so the snow came right on time. Unfortunately it was in the end of the week. I haven’t skied in years but walking in it, is good enough. It’s so soft but also it makes your feet tired. It’s good exercise and makes you warm. Snow can be a problem for drivers. They have to clean their window shields from the snow and maybe have troubles with starting their engines. But it’s not my concern since I don’t even have a driver’s license 🙂 I shouldn’t gloat for other people’s troubles but I still do. I can only enjoy the snow as much as I can. I live in Finland because of the snow. Without it, life would be much duller.

But snow does has its disadvantages and one of them is the melting process. When it’s gets warmer and it’s rain, it turns to slush. Then it’s no fun. Your winter boots get wet and you need to be careful where you walk. If it’s get cold again, it becomes ice and you can slip. I’ve slipped so many times, I walk much more careful now. I sprained my left hand once and I had to wear a cast for at least 6 weeks. It was the worse thing I’ve ever experienced and I never want to go through that again. Everytime I’m close to slip, my hearts skips a bit and I get cold sweat. I slipt once this year but luckily I didn’t break anything. An awful pain was the only thing and I don’t like it one bit. So there should be snow or no snow at all and nothing in between.

In the end the snow will go away and spring will come. That’s something that will never change. People should have it in mind that things can look bad now with all the snow but it won’t last forever. We don’t live in the Game of Thrones universe where winter can last several years. Even if winter is my favorite season, I still hope the spring will arrive soon. There is a time and a place for everything. I’m a snow baby who’s born in the beginning of summer. Yet I’m waiting for warmer days in anticipation like everyone else. We have four seasons and that’s a blessing.

Tremble in the cold

Mia3 Comments
snow2016Jan
Finally some snow,  Jan 2016

Living in a cold climate country, it’s obvious other people who comes to visit think it’s always like that. This winter it’s been quite mild actually. It’s only once in a while we have minus celsius. I don’t what it is today but it’s about -10 I think. Now that is cold. You tremble if you don’t put enough of warm clothes on. You see young people going out with their sneakers and bare ankles. But in the winter you should be more reasonable than fashionable. That’s what the problem with the world. There’s too many designers who design clothes that are more suitable in a warm climate. That kind of clothes doesn’t suit here and yet youngsters get influenced by that. Sometimes even kids wear too little. What are those parents thinking about anyway? If I had a child, I would care about how they dress in the winter.

When you live in a country like Finland, you have to dress for the occasion and not the way what’s fashionable. Even Finns complain about the cold weather which is strange. There’s always been 4 seasons. Cold weather shouldn’t be anything unfamiliar. I don’t see them complaining about the hot weather. It must be very difficult to buy warm clothes. There’s a lot of fashionable winter clothes to buy. The weather shouldn’t control people’s lives. If they would only be smart enough to know what to wear during the cold days. It’s just an excuse to say they can’t go outside because of the temperature. Fresh air hasn’t harmed anyone. You don’t have to stay outside for hours if you don’t want to but staying inside because of the weather is ridiculous.

Even if winter is my favorite season, I still like warm weather. Wearing many layers of clothing is like wrapping and unwrapping a present everyday. But it’s also nice to go out without a jacket. Trembling in big amounts isn’t very nice. No matter how much I wear, there are always times I get cold. Freezing your toes is the worse. It feels like you lose all the feeling in them. Fingers are the first to go. Maybe I don’t move enough or I have a weak blood circulation. It can also be because I froze my fingers when I was a child. I went out without gloves in the freezing cold when we were skiing in Lapland and when I came in, it felt like I had million needles and pins in my fingertips. I couldn’t touch anything without feeling tingling. It was awful. I got sensitive fingertips after that and even working with the oven scared me because I was nervous of burning them on the baking tray. Surprisingly I’m not as nervous as I was with the oven anymore.

When I see people walking outside in the cold without gloves and headwear, I shudder. I couldn’t walk in the cold like that. I would freeze my ears and fingers off. I get a headache as soon as the cold wind hits my head. Having read ears is not a pretty sight. It’s better to feel warmth than trembling. There’s no such thing as bad weather, only wrong clothes. It’s a Swedish proverb. In English it means.

“Any weather is tolerable as long as you have the right clothing.”

People should stop complaining about the cold. Put warm clothes on and your problem is solved.