kyrasantae | Worlds away (Reply)

Kauko and Markku at the sauna. Textbook bromance. Kauko is like, awesome Finnish gramps.

It's not immediately apparent from watching me that I'm actually quite capable of spending a weekend without computers, televisions, and cell phones. Or running water. It's easier when everyone else around you is in the same boat, though. But I really do enjoy being free of the ticking of the clock.

So yeah, we were out here last weekend - it's the Finnish Society's private-but-on-public-land campground. (The dark line is the road in.) There's a decent-sized cabin in the middle of it.

Being surrounded by nearly everyone speaking Finnish is nice. I appear submissive to those around me, but I am actually just listening quietly. Listening to the sound of the living language taking me back...

Besides a note of sourness (Mrs Crazyfinn acting all "Mom" on me), coming back to the city makes me restless. It's a vaguely familiar feeling - a euphoric, "take me back, pleeeeeeeeeeease!!" feeling.

I wish I was still there.

They say that conversation at sauna is not to have any inhibitions. There I have heard stories told by Crazyfinn that place him squarely up about five notches on the creepiness scale. That's higher than Creepy Swedish Guy ever got. At least CSG was polite. Crazyfinn is just crass.