first days

Thursday was my first day without Adam. For him it was his first day at work. And so I took Wanda in a stroller and we walked first to this most famous square with the huge cathedral on a hill. Than we walked to the harbor. It was the first sunny day and marina looked just amazing. Those white yachts, the ray of sun touching the surface of the water, people walking to work and tourists taking pictures. After that we walked along Aleksanderinkatu - very nice and elegant street with shops and restaurants and slowly we ended up in a front of the main railway station. Check on the internet how this building look like. It is impressive, build in 1914 its style in I think art deco. It looks for me like from a futuristic movie made in Charlie Chaplin era. Next we walked to a park and than around to a shopping mall. It was such a new feeling for me and I think for my daughter as well. We were walking in this completely new place, which already became our new home. I was constantly thinking about it and I know already that I will remember that day forever. That after a year or two, while walking those well known streets I will have in my mind that memory of my feelings I had that very first day. And what are the feelings? Well, I don't know. I feel well... strange? Maybe this is how little kids feel, because for them almost everything is new. So they look at everything and they just let themselves learn, how it works, how it looks like, how it feels etc. I hear this language and I don't understand a word and this is strange. And against the stereotypes not everyone in Helsinki speaks English! We had already several situations like that.