MTV Generation

When I was a teenager I did watch MTV. It was fun to watch the music videos. Since then I grew out of it and I never watch it nowadays. Except for when it’s on at the gym. As far as I have noticed they don’t really play music on it any more. They have all kinds of programs. One of them really shocked me. It’s a contest between two persons and they are encouraged and cheered by their friends. The point is to insult each other… “Your house is so cheap, the paint holds it together.” But the most frequent insults are about mothers… How sick is that! “Your mother is this and that, so and so…” And what I don’t get is that many times these insulted mothers are actually in the cheering crowd… Why is this considered fun???

Hockey

I have never been interested in hockey. Somehow in Romania is not as popular as football, and although I had friends who played hockey, I never went to see a game. Finland is a different story. In winter ice rinks are free of charge for everyone to enjoy and they are all over the place. And there are always guys playing hockey. It feels as if Finns were born with skates on their feet. So seeing this frenzy, it made me curious. I wanted to go and see a hockey game. Misi knew this and one afternoon he surprised me. He came to pick me up from work. I thought we were going home, but instead we ended up at the local ice hall. I had no idea who was playing, or what the name of the local team was, but very soon I became a Tappara fan J I am not quite sure how it happened, but at their third goal I found myself jumping up and cheering with the crowd…