Creativity and explanations I have so many things to write, but it is so difficult in Italian ...
One thing I discovered in these days after nearly two weeks of celebration, is my creativity. I thought it was dead forever. Normally I'm so tired when I come home from work and even more tired at night that I will never feel like doing anything, and creative ideas ... nothing. I will just work, being with children, care for the house, eat and sleep, in that order.
It's great to feel the urge to go for walks, meet friends, do exercise, play with the children, sew, go to the cinema, prepare a special dinner, put the photos in the album (I got to 1998 ...), change the fabric on the chairs in the living room ... You name it! Then I could not do even 10% of everything I do not take away the satisfaction, the important thing is to wake up and think "What's nice is there to do today?". The chairs I'll show you later, though! =)
This also applies to the creativity and there are many blog post in my head that still have not managed to write as there are children, her husband and all my creative projects that pulls my attention by the computer. I can not write a post in Italian in just a few minutes I could do in Sweden, it takes time for me. Not to forget all these posts I make a list of topics
- the new year and the old
- teens
- the Swedish teacher
- the reform of the Swedish school
- smultronställen
Go well. Enough. Now return to a topic that I promised to investigate a few days ago. Accountancy so I feel grateful to have grown a little place in the north even though I have never found so much there.
Where do I start?
Perhaps the most important is that small I have already learned to live, if not in harmony with nature at least fighting with / against nature. The home of my parents is in a neighborhood of detached houses, not isolated in the middle of nowhere, but the same with the nature just outside the window. I particularly remember one morning about five o'clock, I was maybe ten years, I and a friend had spent the night in a tent in the garden, we were awakened by a noise as if anyone would be trying to enter the tent, I open the zip of the tent with his hands trembled a little 'just a little scary, but when I leaned my head out of the tent I had a nice kiss from a curious reindeer. How scary!
And so it was, so, people lived lives, in nature, although in a fairly modern. Why do not you think it's like the south, the northern cities, people in the north, are "backward." But the life there is often much more modern here in Stockholm, at least when it comes to technology. The reason is quite simple - there is no need. An example from my life is the environment of universities. I studied in Luleå, Umeå, Stockholm and Uppsala and I'm surprised by the fact that Uppsala and Stockholm are so far behind in many aspects in comparison with Umeå and Luleå.
Nature. The pace of life of a family in a way that is based on the rhythm of nature.
in January is often a home for the oxen and the cold. It is the time to be with family and go to visit relatives here and there.
In February and March many outside activities; whole day to go on the sled, build snowmen or snowballs with strong where we had wars with snow, ski trips on the river ice and greatest trips by snowmobile in the archipelago sea. A few years especially when the ice was even did double sea trips by car. Was a wonder to go to places in the sea with the car at night, completely dark, only the stars shining in the sky. Sometimes we were lying on a reindeer skin, watching the stars and talk about everything and nothing. Other times we danced to music from the radio of the car. Very romantic gloves, hat and feather ... =)
In April, however there is a time of ice fishing. How it works? With a drill so
you make a hole in the ice, and I assure you that it takes the drill because the ice can be twice more than a meter. Then you can fish in the hole.
April The third is Walpurgis Night bonfire and normally ago on the river ice.
the May 1 also is the day when children could finally change clothes in winter than a little 'lighter. Sometimes, weather permitting, is also the time to pull out the bike from the garage, wash it, put oil on the chain and away - the first round of the year.
In May there is also a great event - every year the town puts on a boat on the river ice and people can bet on what day of the river ice breaks. If you're lucky you can at least see it or hear it. Sometimes it brings great floods when large pieces ice are taken with the current and melt.
In June, however it is time to put the potatoes, those that grow only in the north, mandelpotatis (the name comes from the word for potatoes and one for = potatis Mandel = almond, since the shape of these assimiglia in an almond potatoes), carrots and other vegetables. You can not do before because there is too much risk of frost at night. It's okay though, because the midnight sun helps them grow faster.
This is also the time when you get up early in the morning, four o'clock, to go and see mating dance of the black grouse . Very particular. Does a cold, but it's worth ...
July is the month of sun, swimming in the lake, but also in the river into the sea. It is the month of trips by bike or by boat, day that never ends, fishing and nights in tents. This month the people of the north must enjoy the sun throughout the year, because already in August begins to disappear ...
August and September are the months when you collect the berries, potatoes, carrots and makes the jam, sweets, syrup ...
In August there is also the last festival in stuga (the house in summer) than herring fermetate (you can read more here ).
Ah, I can not forget the fishing commenced drawing White coregione to September 20. The red caviar from these fish is known throughout the world and very very expensive.
But after this ... nothing. October, November, December. Oxen. Cool. Nothing, apart from the preparations of the Advent, Saint Lucia and Christmas.
I'm sure that life was an advantage for me that I had all these experiences in nature, with nature. So fish, know my way in the woods, I know what you can eat and no, I know how to take care of what nature gives us, I know when you can sow and gather, and how to know what are the animals that are in Sweden, I can navigate a boat or paddle a canoe, I know how you stand the cold.
fireplace a child to school, 5 miles per round, with temperatures of -25 degrees. It was ugly, but I've gotten. For more great I was cycling in winter. There was no talk of bus or be accompanied in the car. When you were old enough to go to school were also big enough to do it alone.
I'm not afraid of the cold. Physical work does not scare me. I am not afraid of the oxen or loneliness. I learned that we must keep calm in a difficult situation, use your brain and find solutions. When you hole a tire of a bike or car in the middle of anything you need to find a solution. (Do not forget that there were no amenities such as phones, eh). But most of all I have had many many experiences that television can not give you, you can not have in a museum or on the Internet.
's enough for today.