Jane in Finland: Monday October 25 - Fly eating plants grow at all temperatures

It's true- I'm happy to know that I can grow my own Audrey II whenever I'd like no matter how cold it is outdoors. We saw quite a few scary looking plants at the Garden Center this evening with Tanja and the girls.

But before I got to the garden center, I had my first Russian Literature class. I was quite nervous for it because it was supposed to be taught in Russian with the most important parts highlighted in Finnish but I feared that the professor was Finnish and would teach most of it in Finnish. As soon as Alexei Lobski (already a sigh of relief escaped my lips as I read his Russian name) passed around the attendance sheet and asked us, in Russian, to sign it; I knew I was safe. The course outline sounds great and I am looking forward to learning lots about Russian literary history as well as some of the main writers. My reading list is made up and I will be paying the library a nice visit sometime soon.

Onto our Garden Center adventure:
Although this is my second time in the Center, I am not one to complain about revisiting a place that I found interesting in the first place. In addition some of the plants were replaced by new ones. We spent some time walking around, talking to the big white parrots (oh wait, that was just me), playing with the fly eating plants and drinking ridiculously sweet hot chocolate. As with any sugar rush, we were all really hyper and chatty for a short while followed by extreme tiredness. An early night for me as could have been predicted.