20-23 of June, 2014
Hooray!!! Mindy Yuan the blog progresses the memorial 100th post, and it salutes one of the most exciting holidays in Finland, Midsummer’s Night, as known as Juhannus in Finnish.The cold summer in 2014 only stops me jumping for the lake swimming, whilst we folks still chat at sauna, prepare the tableware, make green salad, smoke lake salmon, grill huge sausages on fire, take short hiking and then visit grandparents.
Juhannus is also the great time to taste something new and fresh, such as baked garlic, though our mouths would exhale pretty bad breathes, still, the soft and melting garlic substances is perfect to accompany with a loaf of baguette and a cup of British afternoon tea.
When I was taking Shakespeare Drama seminar back to the college time, I was too naïve to fully understand the comic core of Midsummer Night’s Dream, I was even more, a bit clueless and unwilling to study line by line just because I considered those themes surround non-stop carnivaleque, ambiguous sexuality and the loss of independence are very annoyingly boring. Not until did I realise how much I adore Felix Mendelssohn’s Wedding March, that I regretted for not close reading the fun parts between page by page.
Standing besides the boardwalk, listening to the voice of the wind, there is only the peace, the clouds, the trees and the lake. To my dear readers and folks, I wish you all have a great, sweet, and lovely Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Special Thanks: Perhe Heikkinen
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