My activities
in January and February have been rather normal so far. The dance lessons have been fun, we have our
own (private) Facebook group with lively discussion. We have done some
arrangements for the choreography outfit in the spring show. I have bought a
royal blue costume with a turquoise scarf. We have also made tiny “serviettes”
attached to the middle fingers for the choreography. Or actually some of us
have done them for us all, I’m too poor in sewing.
In January
we had a theater day in Turku. The piece was a sad story about the women locked
in the isle of Seili, the place where we visited last summer. It seemed the
reason for sending women to such one way trip were rather flexible: Maybe
someone was sent there because of random prostitution, killing a baby because
of the post pregnancy depression or even because the gentlemen just made a doctor
to prescribe the diagnosis to get rid of their wives they were no satisfied
with.
Though the
story was not at all happy, we still had a nice evening with big herd of friends,
having supper and chatting a lot.
A tired theater
visitor having her nightcap
In February
we travelled to Tallinn to enjoy some beauty services, making a little shopping
and listening to nice chamber music at the Mustpeade Maja (The house of the
German knights called the “Black Heads”). During the Soviet regime the house
was invaded by Russian communists who robbed all the movables and even after that
the beautiful building was restored by few Estonian Germans, not getting any support
from the Estonian government. Anyway the acoustic of the concert hall was
almost perfect and the string trio played excellently their Beethoven and
Dohnanyi.
At the
supper after the concert
Our hotel
was built in the fifties for the communist nomenclature. Nowadays it’s owned by a
Italian art collector. It’s designed in classical Stalin period style and
restored quite nicely. To get the real feeling the view from the window was in
the same spirit: The wall of communist cultural palace, nowadays a casino.
