Santka Lucia in Kalmar

This was my second trip to Kalmar and this time besides getting a new job challenge for year 2008 I also had the opportunity to watch a Swedish Christmas tradition, Santa Lucia. It is suppose to happen every 13^th of December and it is related to the Sicilian Saint Lucia for some unknown reasons, at least no one in the office knew why, and actually it doesn't make sense at all because the Swedish are mostly protestan.

Anyway the tradition is that the girls from school dress up in white and they go singing around the town with candles on their hands and there is one girl representing Saint Lucia and the difference is that she has the candles on her head. I was in the office and they came to visit us and of course I took my camera and recorded the moment, take a look…

Message from a bottle...

This is my first week on Tallinn after officially moving from Tartu and today I woke up feeling that I still don't have a place in the world.

I feel that because my clothes are still in the suitcase, and they are there because I'm expecting to find a new place pretty soon, or at least that's what I thought when I arrived here one week ago, but today I decided to sit down on the floor and unpack everything...

After organizing some of my stuff here it looks better (at least for me), but there is still one big challenge left, the kitchen...

My roommate it's Indian and he has been living and cooking spicy Indian food for more than two years on that kitchen, so you can smell all kinds of spices, and you see the colors of the food in every dish, pot, shelf or drawer.

...now you can understand the challenge. But after stopping for a minute thinking if I really wanted to continue, I looked up on the wall at my roommate's poster and read this:

God's Gift

I asked for strength
and God gave me difficulties to make me
strong

I asked for wisdom
and God gave me problems to solve

I asked for prosperity
and God gave me brawn and brain to work

I asked for courage
and God gave me dangers to overcome

I asked for favours
and God gave me opportunities

I received nothing I wanted
and everything I needed

My prayers has been answered

What can I say? Just put some good music on your ears and enjoy the ride of life ;)