Thank you! / Ilona_ke 

❤❤

If you are active and learn to take advantage of the opportunities that your environment offers like skiing and skating in winter and swimming in lakes in summer, you are likely to benefit greatly at older age. The skills and habits you have learned will assist in your well-being. I am old person myself, not in at her age but anyway. It would be mentally and physically very challenging to learn to skiing and other skills at my age. Not impossible. But it would be difficult to achieve the balance, coordination and even to believe that I could learn and start to enjoy these activities. There is initial learning curve, a barrier, to overcome until it becomes enjoyable.

I assume you already know better, but for others I would mention: If you're in cold and dressed for it, but still feeling it uncomfortably, don't concentrate on that feeling and don't keep repeating it is cold etc. Your body will handle it, but you must help it and give it opportunity. Try not to become stiff, tense less moving. Keep on moving. Let your body's autonomous systems to handle the situation and give them some time to do so. I often go out and first I don't really even notice cold. Then it starts to feel and even good winter clothing can feel cold. But as I continue my walking, perhaps with higher tempo for warm up, soon my body has warmed up and the same gloves can start to feel too warm. But of course you also need to understand that cold can also cause serious damage. So, caution is needed and there are limits one needs to learn to respect to stay safe.

How did you learn to speak Finnish so well?

You tell you're on your way to cast your vote in the second round of the presidential election. You say that elections are very different from the ones in Kenya, your original home country. But then you drop this topic. You don't mention much anything about the election. You don't mention candidates or what the differences between them are. You also don't mention the outcome of the election. You perhaps had some reasons making these choices?