Shrove Tuesday

This day we usually do a lot of winter sport and games.And we eat shrove buns. Even we were very active!

 Sirpa washed the huge windows of her aunts place.
 Birgit was at first taxidriver to her children taking them to ice rink to play Ringette. After that Birgit took a long run in the forest.
Marianne played with her grandchildren in the school yard.

Together we finished our PowerPoint presentation, we wrote on our blog and we did some exercises on the quizlett-

Link to our presentation

Click here:  Presentation

Missed it!!

I´m so sorry I missed our get-together yesterday. I was really looking forward to hearing Birgitta tell about the Samí people. And telling what I learnt about the Aborigine. I´ve seen pictures of their art and they´re beautiful! I love their dot paintings and was interested in learning more about those.

But then I read the novel "Dr. Wooreddy´s Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World" by Colin Johnson, a.k.a Mudrooroo, and that`s why the history of the Aboriginal people, especially Tasmanian, got the biggest share of my attention.

It was tough reading. Words like massacre, annihilation, rape, diseases were in the centre. The history of Australia is violent. Most of the early settlers were men, soldiers and sailors and convicts who England used to ship off  to Australia. Later there were weird laws which enabled the government to take Aboriginal children from their parents to be raised in white families or orphanages. I´m glad those days are gone.

Meeting

Hi!
Today we, Birgit, Sirpa and me, met at my home and we discussed our plan forward. I think we have very nice ideas!
On the 12th December we will visit the concert of Joel Hallikainen at Sääksmäki church.Then on the 17th December we meet at my home and discuss  this concert, in English of course. We will even tell to each other how we want or how we have spent our Christmas.
Next time we will meet on the 5th Februar. Birgit comes from Lapland, she is a real Sami! Next day we celebrate the Sami-day, so we will speak about Samipeople and their cultur. Next time we will discus  other indigenous population f.ex the Aborginales in Australia or Africa or Greenland. Even I have videos about Masami land and Wedding in Greenland in English.
Then we have already Mars and we will visit Turkey. Unfortunally Sirpa is not able to come with us. But hopefully she comes to Norway!

Learning plan

Today we discussed our plan with Birgit. We will ask Sirpa if we could meet on the 13th November in the morning in my home. Untill that we will study the Newspage.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26333122
Maybe we can meet once a month for lunch and once in the Skype or Drive.
If we find something interesting  we like to share it on our blog and also comment it.

Delicacies and Questions!

Hi  Everybody!
It was very nice to read the blogs of our groups. At least I had to find there are so many gourmetpeople among us.
So I decided to tell  you about my experiences with two of my grandsons.
On the 19th  October I had invited Daniel and Tuomas to Tampere. It was my birthday present to Daniel 11 years. At first we saw the musical Adams Family. It was really funny, just good for all of  us three.

After that we had dinner. Daniel had to choose the place. It was clear we did not want to go to any Hamburger. So his decision was Restaurant Astor.

In the practised manner they studied the menucard. Both of them found they have never eated escargots. So we ordered them as starter.

The boys liked them so much I was happy to get two pieces!
                                                                              Then the main course. Daniel wanted to taste pigeon

                                                                              and Tuomas reindeer fillet.

For the dessert one boy did choose banana baked in                  And the other mangosorbet.
the oven.
We had our water to drink in wineglasses, so it was nice for me to show how to make a toast.
 Even for me it was a lovely afternoon with two young gentlemen!

Unfortunally our group has been very busy last weeks, so we haven`t had any time to meet or discuss.
Sirpa has enough to do with her english groups, Birgit has to work hard as CEO of the hotell and I am busy with several organisations, grandchildren and many hobbies! But every Monday I have my english lessons.
For next meeting I have following questions:
1.How can we use Skype for group meeting?
2.How can we use Drive for group meeting?

Hopefully we can make some plans now on the Wednesday.
Nice to meet again!
Marianne

Yesterday was the Global Dignity Day!

Hi Marianne and Sirpa,

I like to share this Global Dignity Day material with you: 

http://www.globaldignity.org/view/Global-Dignity-Day-2013

What is Global Dignity Day?
The Sixth Annual Global Dignity Day is scheduled for Wednesday, October 16th, 2013, and will be celebrated in over 50 countries around the world. The aim is been to instill a new, positive, inclusive and interconnected sense of value in young people that will guide them as they grow.

Postcard: Global Dignity

I was visiting the at our head office in Oslo and I found this Global Dignity Day postcard.
As you can see...I'm impressed, Birgit