"Girls want to die" -article

I was traveling from Turku to Lahti via Helsinki as I got a bus ticket for 5 euros from Turku to Helsinki. So it was way cheaper to travel that way. So the bus was in Helsinki at the same time as the train left, so I spent an hour in Helsinki. As I was hungry, I search for a place near by train station to eat. There was this paper called "City". I started to read it while eating my chicken bagel. There I found this article "Girls want to die" (I found it online for you to read)(It is in finnish, you might be able to use translator but finnish is such a hard language to translate that there will be mistakes).

It is about in our country it is still unexplained why girls kill themselves. We have the highest suicide rate for girls under 25 in europe and 4th highest in the entire world. This is a subject that is not talked about. It is not research. We talk about young boys (age under 25) and adults, but not young girls/women. The article does list few reasons why (but they also apply to boys as well), with low education and unemployment. Most of the suicides are done while drunk. There is also a story in the end of a young girl that tried but changed her mind and asked for help and was saved.

It is a very good article about the current situation in Finland. It shows how the society usually values boys more than girls. Even in "high" society country like ours. Where the boys suicides were the topic of discussion for years, the girls suicides has just raised its head. Still girls have killed themselves always. Why is this? Better late than never, but still makes me wonder. What young girls hear is that boys will be boys, but girls will have to grow up and take control. So why do we live in a world that is lead by men, when women control the everyday life? Oh, boy. I could rant about this quite a lot but that is not the point. I just found this article and wanted to share it with you.

Application

Yet another application sent out. I was a bit hesitant to sent this one out, as it might change my plans if I would get it. But then I thought what is the chance for me actually getting it, so I sent the application. There is no logic on my action you say? Well you see if I don't try it is all my fault that I am still in the same place, but if I at least try I have tried to change the situation and it is not my fault. The reason I say, näh I won't get it anyway, is to make my expectations low so what ever comes next will be a happy event. So if I think I won't get it, I won't expect anything so it is not really away from me to sent a paper to the place. I.e. I don't use too much energy worrying and planning and what iffing.

So my current plan is still valid. I just need to find a bank that will give me money order in USD and check if DHL has cheaper prizes then FedEx or was the price I saw just a marketing price. FedEx would want over 150 euros from me to send few papers to Grenada. The price that I saw to DHL was about 30 euros. If I remember correctly last time I used DHL it was under 40. So now I am just waiting to receive a reply to hear if I can use DHL or if it must be FedEx. In the meanwhile, I think I will fill out the papers to US and pay their fee (with credit card) and take another step closer to be able to apply for the visa. Last time I checked they had 210 spots left. So I will have to hope that this year there won't be very many late travellers.

What did I do today...

In the making of

mmm ready

Chocolate-apple cake

 and yesterday?

Rhubarb pie

Yet another pic update

(...because I am lazy and bit too tired to write properly)

Pic by my niece. This is what she has been watching here: Once upon a time and UBOS

Pic by my niece: This is what she has been filling up and emptying

Pic by my niece: Carpet in my spare room

Pic by my niece: Sofa pillow that is not in right place

Pic by my niece: Rumpali! (You know the movie Bambi and the bunny from there...)(This used to be mine but she wanted it few years back and I gave it to her.)

I took this one. Just to show that the sun is shining and that we went to a family park near by.

While my niece was running around I lay in the ground and enjoyed the moment of peace

No sand, so I had to take picture with the sky!

Castle at the family playground

Pic by my niece: Pic of me driving and you can see from the mirror that my niece has the camera

Strawberries!

Self portrait of my niece... Yeah she got a bit crazy with my camera...

Money order?

Wau it really feels nice to live in a country that is supposedly ahead every other country. So it is not normal to have you fingerprints taken with ink (so 80's or somehing). We have not been using checks for at least 25 years maybe more. I do have a vague image in my mind that there has been signs that say, you can pay with check in here.

So I went to my bank to ask if I would be able to get a money order to Grenada. First it was a bit like "wait what did you say?" and  then it was "okey, we can do this!". The next problem was, that they would do it only in Euros, and not in the currency I need it to be. So I need to go see other banks if they will be able to help me out. Also I just need to hope that the fee the bank takes will not be grater than the value I will be putting in it. Oh, well it is not a big hassle. Just annoying that I will have to wait few days to get it done.

I also email our old housekeeper to find out the real address of the other appartment, as all I have is the PO box number (for the old appartment). But I think I will be able to send the US one forward soon. All I need to do there is to fill out the form and pay the fee with my credit card. Then send the papers to the right address and wait.

Grr, more waiting.