Who is the hell this guy??

15 Sep. 2006 Visatupa



We looked at where he pointed out. There was a skull of a reindeer hanging on the tree. Woo, it is kind of scary! He wanted us to stand there to take a photo with the skull, but we didn’t want that. So we went back to the road together without taking any photos. Sorry, man, we appreciate that you tried to show us a cool stuff, but this is not just right for us. When we walked along the main road, some cars were passing by. That guy always greeted and had a couple of words with them. He seemed to know everyone around there.

We arrived at the hostel. Thank you, it was nice talking to you, we said and we were going back to the house. But he wanted to walk further towards the other side of the main road. I asked him what would be there, but again, I really didn’t understand what he was saying. Anyway, we didn’t have anything to do, so we decided to go with him.

We went on the main road further and further. We really didn’t see anything and we had no idea where we were heading. Visatupa is in arctic circle, so it was quite chilly at that time. What is going on? Why we are still going?? I kind of wanted to go back, but I was not able to stop for some reason. I didn’t know why. That guy also looked feeling cold. He blew his nose with a Kleenex. My friend had running nose too, so she asked him if she could have a piece.
‘Paipar?’
‘No, paper!’
‘perper??’
‘pa-perrrr!’
I don’t remember how it went, but our verbal communication was still in disaster.
‘oh, paper!’
Somehow he got us. He gave her a bunch of tissues.
‘ Thank you, I only need a piece’ my friend goes,
He just let her grab the bunch.

We came quite a distance and still kept on going. I felt like going back thinking about the distance we had to take on the way back. Then, we came to a little pond.
That guy stopped us finally. A pond? This is what you wanted to show us?
‘janne’
I see now. This is the owner, Janne’s pond where they grow fish. Yes, this is what he wanted to show us. Shortly after, Janne and his father showed up by car. It was time for fishing.


We saw them fishing for a while, then headed back for the hostel. It was too cold to stay longer. The guy seemed a bit tired, he walked slower than before. We tried to have a chat while walking. Sometimes we understood him but most of time, the conversations went funny. He showed us around including a little path in the forest to the weird reindeer skull, he talked to Janne and also to neighbors in Finnish and they seemed to knew each other well, so we assumed that he lived around there. But when we arrived at the hostel, we entered to one of the guest rooms. Are you one of the guests? You didn’t look a guest here, at all!