I hope that you are going to enjoy my photos during this project, the project is going to take it's place in http://www.mikian.com/365photos.

Valkeakoski bus station

Apparently there has been olympic athletic in cross-country skiing that is from Valkeakoski...

Sports were in really big part of Valkeakoski, there was football stadiums everywhere, only the size changed from smaller ones to that big one (where the lightning hit one player few years ago...). The sports seemed to be though the only thing that was bringing maybe some tourist to there, I somehow suspect that it is not so big tourist place...

The real sunset on the lake

What would be my photo traveling without the photo from the sunset. This time I was watching sunset on the lake, sitting on the shore and looking over the frozen surface of the lake. The snow on the ice was full of small sparkles of ice and while watching the sunset it was possible to see rainbow on the ice.

Last night I got a great idea of going to cycle in the middle of night. When it was dark, windy and it felt like there was almost little bit of rain in the air - in other words just quite nice autumn-like weather. This was my first time cycling in the dark in this autumn and have to say that it was just so great. It has just so different feeling when you are alone in the streets, just trying to follow your headlamp light... And because I was cycling in the middle of night, I was practically all alone there, there was just a few cars in the roads. It was so quiet and nice.

In the middle of my trip I just encountered weird white line in the street that just went somewhere. It was weird because it was painted first in the pavement, then on the street, then it went across the school yard... So what I did - of course I started to follow it... It took a while until I understood that it was the Varala marathon route marking, which was better than good for me because I was actually heading to near to Varala to see nightly view of city. So just following weird white line and I ended up exactly where I wanted But the view wasn't so great than I was thought, it was nice but not so nice. So still searching for a great nightly view from the city... Tips are accepted...

Nightly view of a lake and the moon

But this autumn is going to be a little bit different from last year's, because I return to teaching job. I was lucky and I was picked to keep exercises of basic programming course. I am really looking forward of that. The teaching part is not going to be hard, just a really simple Java programming but the challenge is going to be how to get everybody to actually understand everything and get everybody to interest of programming - there is going to be students that have never programmed before. This is going to be interesting autumn... And of course, it is nice to get some money also

I have to admit that my month doesn't feel like a month at all, time passed so fast, way too fast. It feels like I jut arrived to Queen Alia airport and then the next day I wa already there going back... But on the between there was still so much that happened and I leaded so much so maybe or was a month after all After this month I actually learned a lot about Arab culture, about Muslims and Islamic and I understand their iltire an way of living much much better. I actually didn't have any wxpectaions or big stereotypes beforehands but still there was few hinge that was a surprise to me. First the religion was different in Jordan that I expected, they actually was quite similar than us, there was no so many over religious people and it just seemed natural that everyone ha their own way of believing. It didn't matter I'd you was musliam or hostian, weared veil or not. At least or me it seemed that it was a lot of your personal choice. Of course it is nit do simple, family if course says a lot, specially in that culture where family was everything. That was actually another surprise, how much they valued family and who your father is. Sometimes it just seemed mean do much mire that your father was important person than what you actually knewed or did.

The nature there was amazing, it was beautiful but in do different way that in here Finland. It wasn't do dead placehat someone mthy think, there was plants and trees even in the desert but still it was dry and almost dead place - but of course it was summertime. But I liked it, it was simple and plain view, and those few plants fit all attention easily. You spotted easily all flowers and plants and there was mo fear of not see something because it was hiding behind sone other plants And the views... Where ever we went it was always on the top of mountain and the view from the top was always just amazing. I never got bored of watching those views...

To summarize my whole month - it was just amazing time. It was so interesting to see something so different, experience different culture. And try to survive and getting used to all that heat - it was difficult at first but in the end I actually got used to it and now back here it feels so cold... I am happy that I had enough courage to go to summer school in Jordan, it was indeed one-time experience and I am more than happy that I actually used it. Now I just wish that I have chance to get back there someday because so much was left there that I didn't saw yet...