art: February 2010 Archives
I seem to always luck out with landlords. The landlords of my apartment here in Helsinki may rank as the sweetest ever. (You may remember them, you met them before.) Eero is really kind-hearted and checks in on me over email from time to time to make sure my apartment is warm enough, that I don't have the swine flu, to see how my Finnish lessons are going, etc.
He stopped by my apartment briefly last night to let in a maintenance worker. I had told him I wouldn't be home to let the worker in, but I got confused with the dates so we were both very surprised to see each other. Afterwards, he followed up by email....
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He stopped by my apartment briefly last night to let in a maintenance worker. I had told him I wouldn't be home to let the worker in, but I got confused with the dates so we were both very surprised to see each other. Afterwards, he followed up by email....
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from Eero
to Halee
date Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:55 PM
subject today
Hello Halee agein!
Fortunatelly the replacement of the meter was not a major operation ; no pulling down of any cupboard as anticipated. I was so pleased to see you, hope you can limit your working hours somehow ! Winter can be a little depressing, but pretty soon the sun willl be shineing brightly and reflect intensively back from the snow. Then folks get the natural dose of vitamin D !!
Eero
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from Halee
to Eero
date Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:55 PM
subject Re: today
Hi! I am so sorry that you came all the way over to let the worker in when I was actually home. I got confused with the dates, I hope it did not waste too much of your time. The worker left a few minutes after you, he was very fast.
It was nice to see you, too! I was happy because today (tänään?) there was sunshine (aurinko?), I can feel spring (kevät?) coming soon. The winter (talvi?) has been beautiful (kaunis?), but I am tired (väsynyt?) of it and ready for a change! Hopefully March (maaliskuu?) will be warmer (lämmin?).
ready for vitamin D,
halee
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to Halee
date Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:07 PM
subject Re: today
Hi Halee,
Don t worry of my lost time. Would I be any wiser watching instead Dr. Phil on TV yesterday, hardly.!
Your two lines resemble poetry. Here comes translated version in finnish.
Oli hauska nähdä myös! Olen onnellinen, koska tänään ( today ? ) aurinko ( sun ? ) paistaa, Voin tuntea kevään ( spring? ) tulevan pian.
Talvi ( winter ? ) on ollut kaunis, mutta olen väsynyt ( tired ) siihen ja valmis muutokseen! Toivottavasti maaliskuu ( march ) on lämpimämpi ( warmer ? )
Eero
