Hyvää päivää, äiti! (Good day, mother!) 
Our host Henna has been in some exams this week, and while she was there we toys went to see the Helsinki university main library.
It was a very beautiful building.
Here is the library from outside.
In finnish library is kirjasto. It is derived from the word kirja which means "a book"
Here we are inside the library.
The building is from the year 1845. Before that the library and the whole university was situated in Turku, but the whole city of Turku was destroyed in a fire, and after that the uni and the library moved into Helsinki.
The ceilings are decorated with colorful paintings.
There was going on a exhibition about Finnish cartoon. The black figures behind me are hedgehog characters from a cartoon called Kiroileva siili, which means "Cursing hedgehog". 
I was trying to learn some finnish cursewords, but Henna wasn´t cooperative.
There is five floors in the library, and lots of staircases going to this and that direction. The whole place is like a maze.
The rows of books looked almost endles. 
What? Are you asking if I have remembered to use the finnish numbers? Of course, mum! 
In this pic you can see Yhdeksän sinistä kirjaa. (Nine blue books). 
After leaving the library we went for a trip in the nature. 
We were driwing towards the seashore, but stopped in a small place named Koski in Siuntio to see a small rapid.
The buildings behind me is the old manor house (the big stone building far behing me) and its watermill and dam.
Here is the little rapid in the Siuntionjoki river.
There is the little water mill using the power of the rapid.
Koski is part of the area which belonged to Soviet Union for some years after the second World War.
The soviet troops where using the manor house, and they had been sribbling to the walls of some of the buildings.
None of us here can read russian, so we don´t know what´s written there.
Here is some other houses on the riverside.
We went into a place called Störsvik on the seashore.
I was watching over the sea..
And then I climbed a tree to see even farer away.
We were enjoying the rare glimpse of sun laying in the fluffy lichen.
Then we were walking round the area and watching the views.
Then we drowe along small forest roads to see a lake.
It was a swamp lake, the shores were full of wonderfully smelling suopursu (Rhododendron tomentosum).
The water was very high.
The swamp was also full of granberries, karpalo in finnish. They were very good. 
There is cranes nesting on the lake - they love karpalos too.
We spent rest of the evening sitting round the fire, telling stories.
Now I´ll go to bed, mum.
See you soon again!
Kisses from Melek
