We moved here from Salo when I was something about two years old. I remember only a bit from our first house in Kaarina. It was a rowhouse. Red one. I remember that in our neighbour lived a boy, who seemed so big to me. But later my mom told me that the kid was only six years old. But he seemd big to me because the difference between our ages was more than few years.
Kaarina is a pretty large city. So basically here is much space but not that many people. There are at least four schools (I'm not quite sure, because now Piikkiö is a part of Kaarina), but only one high school. There is a library, but it is not as good as Turku's. And there isn't a movie theater. I think it would be better if we had one because there are smaller cities than Kaarina with a cinema. But this is a nice city. Kaarina is pretty beautiful. It's next to the sea. There are parks and forests, places to do sports, a health center and a lot of other necessary things.
Picture from http://www.kaarina.fi/
I remember when me were building our own house. It's pretty close to the beach. I wanted the house to be pink. Well, of course we didn't paint our house pink, it became yellow (thank God). Now later I think it was really good that my parents didn't listen to my advices in house painting. The house would have been awful. But, hey, I was something like six years old. And my favourite color was pink. So, I guess I can forgive myself.
Our house
Kaarina is the city where I have grown. I went my kindergarten here, I started my school here, I got my first friends here and I'm going highschool in Kaarina too. And of course I'm living here. So I think that Kaarina is worth of a place that I can call home. Of course some day I'll move away from Kaarina, but I can always call this place my home. I believe that people can have two homes or even more. Sometimes one of them is more important than the others or sometimes they are egual. But the most important thing that everybody has a home. Or a place to return.
Anna V.
Sounds as if your roots are deeply in the soil of Kaarina. Spending most of your formative years in the same place surely leaves indelible memories in your mind. I can imagine that one day, even if you may have moved away, you will bring your own children back to Kaarina to see where you grew up and went to school.
ReplyDeleteHello Anna,
ReplyDeleteI really like your blog. I agree with you that Kaarina is good place to live, there is almost everything you need but it's still so close to the nature and it's beautiful. And I agree with you that people can have more than one home, actually, I have many places that I can call a home right now.