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[kyrasantae]

"i was wearing my cloak today at a reception (where people were invited to wear traditional dress), and someone asked me if it was traditional finnish or something, so i said "no it's not, but it's representative of the nobody-really-cares-what-other-people-are-wearing of finnish city culture""

(uh that was last night)

Heh, correct answer. What did the someone reply to that?

he's like, "uh, okay, so you lived in finland for how long?"
"a month"
"? were your parents from there?"
"no"
"then what's the connection?"
"it's spiritual, not physical/historical"
"oh"

Typical.

yeah, o well
i'm getting used to it

Comments

impressed++

[voxwoman.livejournal.com]

I thought your family lived there for a while when you were young (so you could pick up the language). Learn something new every day, I guess.

So when did you start learning Finnish?

Re: impressed++

[kyrasantae.livejournal.com]

Mmm... I'm the only one in my family who cares at all about Finland. And if I'd actually lived there, I'd know a lot more of it than I do ;)

Uh... I started poking around and not really getting anywhere with it around my last year of high school.



Edit: Come to think about it, the "lived there as a young child" thing was, at one point, part of a fictional past I wanted to have for myself (or rather for my 'artist' identity). However, another part of that story was that I left too soon to learn the language.