Thursday, 28 August 2008

LIFE
Making Anyone Look Beautiful Print E-mail
By Edward Dutton   
Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Sandra Rugina is an award-winning freelance photographer from Romania trying to make it in Oulu. As with many expats, it was love that brought Sandra Rugina to Oulu. And now the Romanian – who has done everything from weddings to fashion shoots in her home country – is aiming to establish herself in the city as a freelance photographer.Image

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Taking Time To Get Away Print E-mail
By Alan Pembshaw   
Friday, 23 May 2008
ImageOulu’s brimming with ‘undiscovered’ tourist gems; or so they say. Alan Pembshaw takes a Hailuoto ferry to the type of island you wish you’d taken to at fifteen with a treasure map and a bottle of ginger ale.

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Look Who's Pregnant (part II) Print E-mail
By Ildikó Hámos-Sohlo   
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
First trimester. Five weeks into my pregnancy we attend a cousin´s wedding in the US. A good occasion to share the great news with my family, we think. The tickets were purchased well in advance, when the stork hadn´t been on our horizon. A ball, I must say, especially after having heard so many opinions in Finland about how I shouldn´t tell anybody I´m pregnant before it´s safe–after week 12, that is, because “statistics say…”

On a certain level, I appreciate people trying to protect me from being hurt by getting too much into having a baby (too much into? I think it´s all or nothing: you´re either pregnant or not. I’ve never heard of anyone just a little bit pregnant).

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Pregnant Up North (part I) Print E-mail
By Ildikó Hámos-Sohlo   
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
What should you do first if the pregnancy test clearly shows two lines and you live in the northernmost place anybody ever has been from your family? Ildikó Hámos-Sohlo shares her thoughts about pre- and early maternity in Finland.

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‘God Families’ for Exchange Students Print E-mail
By Virpi Hattukangas   
Sunday, 06 April 2008
More local ‘god families’ or kummiperheet are needed for foreign exchange students coming to the University of Oulu, reports Oulu’s Kaleva.

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