Guess what started today? Hints: it begins with an S, ends with an N and in the middle there are such characters as UMMER VACATIO.

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The swan beneath was fishing alone yesterday at the campus sea shore. When I first noticed it, it was doing the same thing as in the left picture. For a second I thought it was a mini ice berg until it plummaged back above the surfice. Funny to notice, actually: everyone who went by, men and women and especially children alike, looked at it for a long time. Either swan's position as Finland's national bird is scorched in our minds so well that everyone feels enormous respect and admiration for it, or maybe it the cultural heritage from Kalevala and Tuonen Joutsen enforced by Sibelius that causes this admiration? Or maybe we just have good understanding on what is beautiful and graceful.