Tanja @tanjaostman@dingdash.com
Swedish-speaking Finn from Finland. Wife, mother of one boy (2008). Teaching special education at the local university. I belive that the Organic Church/House Church is the NT way of doing Church. I'm interested in what's going on in the underground Church and I pray for the persecuted Christians.
Joined Jul 2020
Thomas Gür on FB: "What Russians are googling: "A survey conducted between February 17th and 21st—that is, in the week before Mr Putin’s invasion—by the Levada Centre, an independent Russian pollster, found that 43% of Russians between the ages of 18 and 24 wanted to leave the country for good. And 44% of those who hoped to emigrate cited the “economic situation” as their motivation.
That situation is likely to get a lot worse. Western sanctions have created an economic storm: rising inflation, a crashing currency, and imports that are expected to dwindle. Many Russians will soon struggle to afford what they need to survive.
Eagerness to leave seems to be mounting. Data from Google Trends, which tracks how often particular words are entered into its search engine, show that Russian-language searches for “political asylum”, “emigration”, “flights” and “visa” all leapt in Russia in the days leading up to the invasion on February 24th..."
A restaurant by the sea arranged an outdoor event today, where we had our lunch. There were people demonstrating pilk fishing (another post), they were frying fish outdoors, we were able to talk to the fire-brigade that showed their hydrocopter (for icy waters) and the border guards that showed a very powerful snow-mobile. I was asking them about their work duties (something between military and police.. and they always bear arms) but I didn't dare to ask them about Russia...
To pilk is one way to catch fish in the winter. First you need to drill a hole in the ice. In the picture you see a drill. This man has caught a pike.
"On August 23, 1989, about 2 million people from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania formed a human chain that united all 3 countries to show the world their desire to escape the Soviet Union and the communism that brought only suffering and poverty. This power stretched 600 km." (Source: Historic Photographs on FB)
We have a grocery store in our city called Asian market, owned by Chinese people. We are frequent customers. But raw frog legs (in the last picture) ... hmm..... 🙊🤔😜 Have you tasted frog 🐸?
We have A LOT of snow on our patio/terrace (or what do you call it in English??). We start to empty it a little so we can put chairs there in a month or so, as the sun 🌞 gets stronger. In the Nordic countries we are sun worshippers. 😉😁 We love it, because we don't have too much of it.
From our kitchen window. Sunset at 4.30 PM, and it's almost -20°C. Still short and cold days.
Swedish-speaking Finn from Finland. Wife, mother of one boy (2008). Teaching special education at the local university. I belive that the Organic Church/House Church is the NT way of doing Church. I'm interested in what's going on in the underground Church and I pray for the persecuted Christians.
Joined Jul 2020
