Saturday, 16 May 2009
Thursday, 14 May 2009
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Friday, 8 May 2009
Back ...
... We left Visby, Gotland around midday and headed for Utö, a very small island in the very begining of the Finish Archipelagoes. A beutiful place to anchor. We got a tour inside the lighthouse of the island which was exiting and interesting. The lighthouse consisted of more than the big 'lightbubl', it also had a church- and a schoolroom inside it. Thank you to our guide and to Mari for making it possible for us to visit. We also had a change to go to sauna, a real Finish sauna tour, with beer and laughs, cold water but no branches!!!!
When w left Utö the next morning at app 6 am, the weather was still nice and the sun getting up. The sailing through the archipelagoes was so beutifull and very hard to describe, all I can say is: "Wauw, you got to see this with your own eyes".
we were heading for another small island, the name I have forgotten. This place was to be our last night on Helena, we only had a few hours to Uusikaupunki from here.
We were guided around the island and the history of it by Tuomo (crew member), and then we had our goodbuy parti. Bonfire, sauces,beers, dancing and singing, as so many other things on this trip; one more fantastic and beutiful experience to add to our inner logbook.
It was quite nostalgic and sad, in the same time as being fun and cozy.
In the morning of our last leg with Helena, we left around 9 am, the watchgroup desolved, the main crew sailing because we had to pack and clean the ship.
Everyone a bit stressed or at least not enjoying the packing, non of wanted this sailing trip to end we reached Uusikaupunki around midday, teers fell from the sky and we had work to do.
Helena was/is going to maintenance and repairs, so we were to take down all the sails.
The main sail is a very huge piece of cloth and weighs if I remember correctly, 400 kg, a lot I sould say...
In a way this was a good way of saying goodbuy to Helena and her men, we worked our feelings out by using our muscles not our brain...
Stefan Abrahamsen from Staf. Fi drove us all, 3-4 at the time, to the busstation in Uusikaupunki where we were to take a bus to Turku and the another to Helsinki.
From Helsinki we to the small ferry to Suomilina where a very nice hostel were booked for us, some of our group slept at home now being back in civilisation, back to their families.
As it was Vappu the Finish way of celebrating May First, everyting was kind of boiling, noisy and different, not bad but very very different from being at sea.
We also to part of this celebration and experienced the way the Finish people let go of everything; brain, maners, fringking habits and so much more, to make this the biggest party of a country every year.
I am not sure I understood it, and like one was saying: "The is the day of the living deads" I agree, everyone being pale from the winter just gone, even the nature is not still colourfull and then the amount of alchohol that are drunk. How can people consume so much and still breathe?? ;-)
At Suomalina we were to end this trip with an excibition of our artwork, or some of it. It was or is to be shared amoung our schools I think and we all need more time to finish what we have started.
We are all to meet in Stockholm at the end of august this year, or at least as many as possible.
We will try to use this blogg as ur platform for our future work and to keep in touch.
Finally I want to thank STAF.FI and Eddanorden for making this possible for us.
A big thank you to the Captain and his crew on this trip from Kiel to Uusikaupunki.
Big thanks and hugs to mari and Jan for all the work you have done to make this trip worth while.
And of course THANKS to all participants for being who you are and opening your arms to each and everyone of us..
Thank you for an unforgetable journey... Love Sophie
When w left Utö the next morning at app 6 am, the weather was still nice and the sun getting up. The sailing through the archipelagoes was so beutifull and very hard to describe, all I can say is: "Wauw, you got to see this with your own eyes".
we were heading for another small island, the name I have forgotten. This place was to be our last night on Helena, we only had a few hours to Uusikaupunki from here.
We were guided around the island and the history of it by Tuomo (crew member), and then we had our goodbuy parti. Bonfire, sauces,beers, dancing and singing, as so many other things on this trip; one more fantastic and beutiful experience to add to our inner logbook.
It was quite nostalgic and sad, in the same time as being fun and cozy.
In the morning of our last leg with Helena, we left around 9 am, the watchgroup desolved, the main crew sailing because we had to pack and clean the ship.
Everyone a bit stressed or at least not enjoying the packing, non of wanted this sailing trip to end we reached Uusikaupunki around midday, teers fell from the sky and we had work to do.
Helena was/is going to maintenance and repairs, so we were to take down all the sails.
The main sail is a very huge piece of cloth and weighs if I remember correctly, 400 kg, a lot I sould say...
In a way this was a good way of saying goodbuy to Helena and her men, we worked our feelings out by using our muscles not our brain...
Stefan Abrahamsen from Staf. Fi drove us all, 3-4 at the time, to the busstation in Uusikaupunki where we were to take a bus to Turku and the another to Helsinki.
From Helsinki we to the small ferry to Suomilina where a very nice hostel were booked for us, some of our group slept at home now being back in civilisation, back to their families.
As it was Vappu the Finish way of celebrating May First, everyting was kind of boiling, noisy and different, not bad but very very different from being at sea.
We also to part of this celebration and experienced the way the Finish people let go of everything; brain, maners, fringking habits and so much more, to make this the biggest party of a country every year.
I am not sure I understood it, and like one was saying: "The is the day of the living deads" I agree, everyone being pale from the winter just gone, even the nature is not still colourfull and then the amount of alchohol that are drunk. How can people consume so much and still breathe?? ;-)
At Suomalina we were to end this trip with an excibition of our artwork, or some of it. It was or is to be shared amoung our schools I think and we all need more time to finish what we have started.
We are all to meet in Stockholm at the end of august this year, or at least as many as possible.
We will try to use this blogg as ur platform for our future work and to keep in touch.
Finally I want to thank STAF.FI and Eddanorden for making this possible for us.
A big thank you to the Captain and his crew on this trip from Kiel to Uusikaupunki.
Big thanks and hugs to mari and Jan for all the work you have done to make this trip worth while.
And of course THANKS to all participants for being who you are and opening your arms to each and everyone of us..
Thank you for an unforgetable journey... Love Sophie
Reflections of the tour
Dear all readers of this block,
This text is based on my thougts right here and now, therefore there might be some resemblance to what I have written earlier so please avoid getting anoid :-)
We have now been back into our everyday lives for 5 days. I think I talk with the voice of all of us when saying that this has been the hardest part of our journey. Coming back... We are not the same persons as before, it might not seem like this for outsiders viewing us, knowing us but inside of ech and everyone we have changed some more than others but changes have taken place.
Do you know the expression: 'Bildung' & 'Coming of age'? Well this is part of what this journey came to be.
When we started out in Kiel a lot of people where either afraid of becoming seasick, the sea it self, the fact that we were going to be a lot of people with very little space, expectations of doing art and so on...
Well we have overcome our fears, we have joint a very unic union of 'crazy' people, we have become very speciel to each and everyone and that is what makes it so very special.
Even for those of us that have experienced a great many things, this group and our journey together has been a non forgettable memory which will stay for us forever.
Okay, now I will return to where I left writing about our tour many days ago now.
It will come as I remember it, so maybe oters have different memories, which I hope they will add.
We had some very nice days staying in Holmhälla Gotland, a very beutiful place worth visiting again.
After accepting not to be on Helena for the next three days, we enjoyed the landscape and the things we where presented to while staying on this beutiful island Gotland. We had time for art wotk, we had time for sauna, we had time for loads of food and a lot of time to speak to each other now that we did not have Wathces.
We of cource met Helena & Staffan, we where at Gotlands Konstskola, given lessons in drawing with our 'wrong' hand, 'right' hand and both hands. We drew a male model, which some of us had never done before.
We visited Lars Jonssons Museeum and had a tour into how he works. He himself was our guide, and I think that all of us was very facinated by this huge man being able to paint so delicately as he does.
We went to the beachs of Gotland, to explore, to collect rocks, to paint, to think, to talk, to take photoes and a lot more.
Returning to Helena again was like coming home, everyone got right back into their sailing clothes, adapting to sea and sailing again very fast.
We all knew that we only had a few more days left on the boat, so unconsiously i think we all wanted the most out of it.
Lunch break, will return...
This text is based on my thougts right here and now, therefore there might be some resemblance to what I have written earlier so please avoid getting anoid :-)
We have now been back into our everyday lives for 5 days. I think I talk with the voice of all of us when saying that this has been the hardest part of our journey. Coming back... We are not the same persons as before, it might not seem like this for outsiders viewing us, knowing us but inside of ech and everyone we have changed some more than others but changes have taken place.
Do you know the expression: 'Bildung' & 'Coming of age'? Well this is part of what this journey came to be.
When we started out in Kiel a lot of people where either afraid of becoming seasick, the sea it self, the fact that we were going to be a lot of people with very little space, expectations of doing art and so on...
Well we have overcome our fears, we have joint a very unic union of 'crazy' people, we have become very speciel to each and everyone and that is what makes it so very special.
Even for those of us that have experienced a great many things, this group and our journey together has been a non forgettable memory which will stay for us forever.
Okay, now I will return to where I left writing about our tour many days ago now.
It will come as I remember it, so maybe oters have different memories, which I hope they will add.
We had some very nice days staying in Holmhälla Gotland, a very beutiful place worth visiting again.
After accepting not to be on Helena for the next three days, we enjoyed the landscape and the things we where presented to while staying on this beutiful island Gotland. We had time for art wotk, we had time for sauna, we had time for loads of food and a lot of time to speak to each other now that we did not have Wathces.
We of cource met Helena & Staffan, we where at Gotlands Konstskola, given lessons in drawing with our 'wrong' hand, 'right' hand and both hands. We drew a male model, which some of us had never done before.
We visited Lars Jonssons Museeum and had a tour into how he works. He himself was our guide, and I think that all of us was very facinated by this huge man being able to paint so delicately as he does.
We went to the beachs of Gotland, to explore, to collect rocks, to paint, to think, to talk, to take photoes and a lot more.
Returning to Helena again was like coming home, everyone got right back into their sailing clothes, adapting to sea and sailing again very fast.
We all knew that we only had a few more days left on the boat, so unconsiously i think we all wanted the most out of it.
Lunch break, will return...
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Back in the real world?
Greetings from a very colour full and raining Denmark.
By Now we are all back in our everyday lives, trying our very best to fit in again. I think I speak for all when saying that we all have found new sides of ourselves that now have to be adjusted and tried fit in with what we left.
We have experienced so many things by this trip that I believe it will take a while for us to settle in.
We have seen the beauty of the sea, lived our lives in a lovely schooner with the little space she offers, been among 24-26 unknown people and getting to know them and getting to feel a lot for each and everyone, we have spend time on beautifull islands, jumped around on rocks, sand and more rocks, painted live model,painted what we saw, listened to strong voices of strong artist, listened to ourselves and our inner voices, been scared just to find out that we did not have to be scared, sharing beer, bread and butter and so many more things....
When my mind has settled I will return to try to sum up from where I left describing our journey.
Take care, Sophie
By Now we are all back in our everyday lives, trying our very best to fit in again. I think I speak for all when saying that we all have found new sides of ourselves that now have to be adjusted and tried fit in with what we left.
We have experienced so many things by this trip that I believe it will take a while for us to settle in.
We have seen the beauty of the sea, lived our lives in a lovely schooner with the little space she offers, been among 24-26 unknown people and getting to know them and getting to feel a lot for each and everyone, we have spend time on beautifull islands, jumped around on rocks, sand and more rocks, painted live model,painted what we saw, listened to strong voices of strong artist, listened to ourselves and our inner voices, been scared just to find out that we did not have to be scared, sharing beer, bread and butter and so many more things....
When my mind has settled I will return to try to sum up from where I left describing our journey.
Take care, Sophie
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