Advent Calendar 2024 – Day 21

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Day 21

Snow shouldn’t come before the festivities, but here in Southern Finland, this Christmas is not lucky. We had snow last night, but it won’t last long because the forecast says it will rain tomorrow. I guess we should enjoy it while it lasts. I will never understand people who live in Finland and don’t like snow. I love it. If you can’t stand the snow, get out of the country. Or you might just live with it and stop complaining. Not that there is anything wrong with it. It’s time for festivities and not time to be disappointed. Weather isn’t something you can turn off and on again. You get what you get, and you live with it.

The view outside my window.

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©Mia Salminen 2024

Advent Calendar 2024 – Day 16

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What skills or lessons have you learned recently?

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Day 16

This year, I’ve participated in several courses and learned new things. In March, I took an entrepreneurial studies course, and recently, I’ve taken courses in photography and social media marketing. In those things, you’re never ready. There is always something new to learn. Life is a learning process. Even if you know things, repetition is never bad. If you want to learn something new, being interested in it helps. I tried to learn coding when I studied web design, but that wasn’t fun because I never seemed to learn. I didn’t like learning it because of that. It’s a waste of time if you can’t learn what is being taught. If you like what you’re learning, things get stuck in your head better.

Being creative has been my thing as far as I can remember. I have never wanted to do anything with building stuff (not anything to do with alabaster or any kind of material). Doing things on a computer and digital things is more for me.

Advent Calendar 2024 – Day 8

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Day 8

In the lack of sunlight, may I offer you an artificial moon? My city of Turku has a light show called Path of Light that goes along the river. Today, Sunday is the last day. This moon is on one of the bridges. This bridge is close to the city theatre, and they will be having The Adams Family musical next year in the Autumn, so it’s part of the path. The moon showed shadow figures once in a while. The Path of Light was last year, too, but I missed it then. It was a lovely evening walk in these dark times. A shame they don’t keep it longer. It was only for 4 days. It won’t replace the sunlight, but it would have been a little lighter outside.

artifical moon
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