melissa and i slept last night on a bus from helsinki to imatra, because there was nowhere to sleep in helsinki under one hundred fifty euros. then we found our way to some hostel and slept on a beach from 6 in the morning until 9. melissa, jetlagged, has been sleeping all day, and i slept for a good portion of it, too. i have no clue where we are, really, but it´s pretty; somewhere outside imatra in a forest on a lake with a breeze. wandering along a lone little highway i found this spa resort and i am stealing their internet for a moment, though i am not a customer. tomorrow we hope to move into whatever free accomodations they have for us at our photography workshop, though it doesn´t start for a few days...for now i am enjoying taking a pause and sitting around all day looking at the water and speaking without language to the gentle little hostel proprietor, knowing only that i am definitely in finland, about 8km from russia, and nothing more.