I wrote my very first fan fiction short story a while ago and put in on the internet, in fanfiction.com. Now I received a review from a girl who said she found the story touching and very well written. Someone really read it and liked it enough to bother to tell me so. I am honoured! Who knows, I may be writing another one when my Potter fever reaches its boiling point; The Deadly Hallows isn't published until 21st of July this year. It's Saturday, though, so I may have to wait 'till Monday to get my pre-ordered copy of the book unless Suomalainen is open on that day. Well, we'll see.
The story, by the way, can be found at http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3091705/1/ in case anyone's interested in reading Harry Potter fanfiction in Finnish.
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The Meme of the Day:
The other of my two phonetics teachers once left in the class when we had a small break and he decided to ask us a question: what would we do if he gave us 60 000 euros right now? Most of my co-students, for some reason uncomprihensible to me, wanted a new car. My answer, amidst all those shiny Porsches, seemed to puzzle him a little; I would book a flight to South Africa. As I explained to him, I would want to go to the world's highest supervised bungee jumping location (216 metres, the bridge over the Bloukrans river). His reply made me smile a little: he's afraid of heights.
