From Oodi to a Mentor

Hello from my home in Helsinki! This is NordLetter #120, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. To follow the series, you can subscribe here. A new NordLetter will land in your inbox every Sunday. Not a fan of newsletters? No problem! You can read previous editions here. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed. You can reach out to me by replying to this mail. I am also posting on Mastodon. I went to Oodi this Sunday, even though I tried not to. I was trying to push Prerna to come here, so that she could study. She had a similar goal. Eventually, I relented. Oodi was full. On the side where Prerna usually sits, near the south end with the steps that go up closer to the roof, musicians were sitting with instruments of different sorts. There was a music concert happening there. When I reached there, the orchestrator, who I assumed was some professor at the music school, was thanking people for coming out, among other similar things. I thought I should sit here and listen…