One area near our house is an arboretum of sorts, with plantings of all kinds of different trees. We had fun walking around identifying the ones we should know and just looking at the ones we didn't. There are little posts with the name in Finnish and then the Latin.
I liked the Tamarack. It brings a little color into the woods. And the needles were very soft.
We also were scouting for a Christmas tree, and of course this place is so tempting because they have the real deal, lots of different firs to choose from. But we know they were planted. We won't take one, but we might take some branches from the biggest for a wreath!
There were bigger ones than this, like 20 ft bigger. This was just the tree I wanted for our living room!
Then we went to some area that had all these white leaves on the ground. I forget the tree already, but it was only the underside that was so white.
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Yesterday, we had dinner at another students apartment. She and the other Chinese students she knows made dumplings for the whole group. John and I came early to help and learn. We didn't learn how to make the fillings, though we know what was in them mostly, but we did learn about the dough, folding them, boiling them and the sauce to eat them in. Here is our work.
Lots of finished dumplings ready for the pot. John wasn't so good at folding, though not bad, so he would put some filling on the rolled out dough and hand them to me, or whoever else was folding at the time.
Olalla got good at rolling the balls of dough.
Oracha folding the dough around the filling.
And Yen, the hostess, folding too. In the background, they are boiling the dumplings, three times.
Then you eat them in a mix of soy sauce, sesame oil and garlic. Yum!
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