Today was going to be a boring day. I knew it.
I didn't want to wait for the electrician to look at our fuse box - so I wrote a sign up in Finnish and English warning people that we have 2 large/friendly dogs that live here. I ended up being home when they got here - they were less than 10 seconds then we (V�in� and I) went to the huge playground. It was quite warm out..about -2*C so I just wore a couple t-shirts and a thick sweater with jeans. It's still slippery outside but so far I haven't fallen! *Knock on wood!
When we got to the playground, V�in� had woken up by then (it's about a 15-20 minute walk or so from our flat) so I popped him into the lower baby swings and he just looked around...and then I pushed him gently so he could barely swing back and forth and he kept opening his mouth like a gold fish trying to eat his coat. Thankfully he couldn't reach the metal links of the swing! That'd be complicated!
When we got inside there was a little girl about a year older than V�in� and a boy about 4 or 5...and I smiled at him and said "Hei" (hello) and he said quite seriously, "Moi" (sounds like moy and also another greeting). He was playing with dinky cars on the big play mat so I sat V�in� down on the floor and made some car/truck sounds while driving them around and then the kid asked me questions. I said "Sorry I don't speak Finnish. I speak...englanti?..."
Then I pointed at V and said "Poika!" The boy nodded very seriously and said, "Poika." Then he asked me something else but said "poika" in his sentence - so I guessed he asked the name...so I said "V�in�...and I am Dominique". He just nodded and continued to make super cool car sounds.
After a cup of tea and some banana we went for a walk down to the library and V was totally asleep by then so I sat in a comfortable chair and read a bit. On our way out an older gentleman held the door open for me. So I smiled and said "Kiitos!"(thank you) and then he held the 2nd door and I bumped into the door frame then tried again and successfully got outside...and he said something to me in Finnish. And I just smiled and laughed and said "Kiitos!" again.
He then smiled and says IN ENGLISH: "You need a drivers' license."
I nearly died.
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