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And yet running Norrskensfesten is actually much less work than doing the degree was. However, by the time I have done the little things that need to be done for the event on a computer each day I am tired and do my yoga and go to sleep without posting.
It is now a week and half before the event, we have more than 70 people registered, and it is looking certain that the new Prince and Princess can't make it--flight costs at this short notice are just too high, and they can't take the train (which is much cheaper) as they can't spare that much time off of work just now. But they do ask what other events we will do up here during their reign (which, here in Nordmark, is nine months long), so perhaps we will get to see them later.
Tonight our Nyckleharpa teacher and his wife came by to borrow costumes for the event (Mom, they send greetings to you!), as did another friend from the folk music group. I suspect that setting the bardic theme made it easier to talk our musician friends into coming. They plan to play dance music for us.
I have been enjoying the Finnish class on Mondays, and thanks to it have stumbled upon a really useful tool that I hadn't known about. After the fourth class it occurred to me that it might be helpful to make flash cards of the vocabulary words for each chapter. But I hate wasting paper, and we haven't any card stock, and it occurred to me that it would be much better to have them on the phone. So I asked the Android Play Store for flashcards, and found Quizlet. Now I have the words from the first three chapters entered in, and when I have a minute or two to wait for something I pull out my phone, open the app and play with it. My favourite is the matching game, but the "learn" section, wherein one has to type the Finnish word while looking at the Swedish equivalent is really useful to get me to actually think about which letters are involved. If one gets it wrong the app shows the correct spelling and makes me type it in correctly before I can go on to the next word.
I have also used this to help with re-learning my "period piece" for the bardic contest. I will be reciting the prologue to the Canterbury Tales, which I memorized back in High School, and can still mostly remember. However, there are a few lines that I had been dropping, so I have created flash cards with the rhymes from one pair of lines on one side, and the subsequent pair on the next (e.g. "soote/roote >" on one side and "licour/flour" on the other) I use the ">" so that it will be possible to play the matching game, because, of course "licour/flour >" goes with "breeth/heeth".
The other distracting project I have going is trying to post something in Swedish on Facebook any day I am actually on FB at all, with the understanding that my friends will then edit the text and discuss in the comments why things should be said one way and not the other. I have been copying the conversations into a Word document, and highlighting the differences between what I typed and what they recommend, so I will be able to look at it again later. It seems to be helping. I hope.
It is now a week and half before the event, we have more than 70 people registered, and it is looking certain that the new Prince and Princess can't make it--flight costs at this short notice are just too high, and they can't take the train (which is much cheaper) as they can't spare that much time off of work just now. But they do ask what other events we will do up here during their reign (which, here in Nordmark, is nine months long), so perhaps we will get to see them later.
Tonight our Nyckleharpa teacher and his wife came by to borrow costumes for the event (Mom, they send greetings to you!), as did another friend from the folk music group. I suspect that setting the bardic theme made it easier to talk our musician friends into coming. They plan to play dance music for us.
I have been enjoying the Finnish class on Mondays, and thanks to it have stumbled upon a really useful tool that I hadn't known about. After the fourth class it occurred to me that it might be helpful to make flash cards of the vocabulary words for each chapter. But I hate wasting paper, and we haven't any card stock, and it occurred to me that it would be much better to have them on the phone. So I asked the Android Play Store for flashcards, and found Quizlet. Now I have the words from the first three chapters entered in, and when I have a minute or two to wait for something I pull out my phone, open the app and play with it. My favourite is the matching game, but the "learn" section, wherein one has to type the Finnish word while looking at the Swedish equivalent is really useful to get me to actually think about which letters are involved. If one gets it wrong the app shows the correct spelling and makes me type it in correctly before I can go on to the next word.
I have also used this to help with re-learning my "period piece" for the bardic contest. I will be reciting the prologue to the Canterbury Tales, which I memorized back in High School, and can still mostly remember. However, there are a few lines that I had been dropping, so I have created flash cards with the rhymes from one pair of lines on one side, and the subsequent pair on the next (e.g. "soote/roote >" on one side and "licour/flour" on the other) I use the ">" so that it will be possible to play the matching game, because, of course "licour/flour >" goes with "breeth/heeth".
The other distracting project I have going is trying to post something in Swedish on Facebook any day I am actually on FB at all, with the understanding that my friends will then edit the text and discuss in the comments why things should be said one way and not the other. I have been copying the conversations into a Word document, and highlighting the differences between what I typed and what they recommend, so I will be able to look at it again later. It seems to be helping. I hope.
