Tanja @tanjaostman@dingdash.com

@sinbach wow! That's awesome! And with a beautiful Finnish name ❤. Let me have a guess who came up with the name... 😉

@Berrybunchfamily great to hear that you listened! Yes, it's encouraging to hear how people (unexpectedly) find Jesus!

@sinbach thanks for the answer! You are a trustworthy source, since there are few with your travel CV. 😀 😉

Are there any other countries outside of the Nordic countries that have similar red wooden houses? These houses where I live (Finnish west coast) are all 100-200 years old, but thoroughly renovated. We have a lot of them in this village - looks like Sweden, because they are typically Swedish (we were a part of Sweden for almost 700 years). The red paint originated from the copper mine in Falun, Sweden, and became very popular during the 17th-19th century. They wanted the houses to look like the more "luxurious" tile walls in Europe. Most houses in Sweden were wooden.

@sinbach handsome young men! It's not hard to see who is Eugene Junior... 👍

@sinbach wow, that's a lot of snow! Montana or Bruksvallarna? I suppose you don't appreciate sand dunes as much as snow piles... 😀

I'm not very used to ordinary secular Swedish-speaking Finns in Finland come to faith and openly confess their faith in Jesus (even if most are formal members of the Lutheran state-church). Most believers have grown up in Christian homes. Frida Rosengård used to be my student (to become a special ed. teacher) for a couple of years, and then quit. She tells here about her perfect facade, but the first time I met her I sawbehind her facade that she struggled. She missed out on lots of classes and I had a couple of meetings with her to help her fix her courses, but noticed that she didn't want to be honest about how she was doing. I was worried about her. Last year she attended miss Finland, and ended up top ten. She quit that before the final. This clip is long, but her English is perfect even if she hasn't lived abroad.
https://youtu.be/3sSmA9SuLJ8

@nanta I've got the same problem. It helps to cut them 1:1 or even flatter.

@His_story thank you for boosting! I like Dennis Prager. He's got a lot of wisdom and knowledge.

https://youtu.be/D2piELUi9sY

@xixiangdong I've visited (southern) Goa once. It was a fairly easy non-stop travel with Finnair from Helsinki. I haven't visited any other Indian state, but this wasn't like my imagination of India. The beaches and waters were very clean, and things well functioning, at least for tourists. I loved it. Very lushy and palm trees everywhere. Great seafood.

I like helping my son (grade 6) with his English homework... but he doesn't need much help, it's quite easy for him. He has learned a lot by playing Minecraft and following youtubers.

@sinbach in Swedish I would say that it makes me wanna vomit. So who decides who is allowed to think and who should just submit to their thinking? Your affiliations or titles?

@xixiangdong They are visible in Finland between September and March, according to the Visit Finland website. I see them extremely seldom, but I suppose I should be more alert when they are about to appear. They are much more frequent in Lapland (northern Finland, Sweden and Norway).

So it ALMOST makes you like winter. 😂 I understand you. We are so "spoiled" with very long, dark and cold winters, that I like summers more. A tropical beach is the most exotic thing I can experience. To visit a beach/an island in Spain, Greece, Thailand, Goa... is paradise for me (even if the countries are not paradises on earth).