{"id":1159,"date":"2008-09-05T09:04:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T08:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2008-09-05T10:08:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T09:08:15","slug":"pelican-for-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=1159","title":{"rendered":"pelican for a day"},"content":{"rendered":"

when I moved to Finland in 2002 I didn’t know anyone, but my girlfriend. No one. Zero. Niente. I started looking for hockey teams and practiced with two or three until I kind of settled in with one of them, the Vaajakosken Pelikaanit<\/a>, playing division III. I played two seasons for them, partially 2001-2002 and 2002-2003. Hockey proved to be the bridge that I had so dearly looked for I met Ari, Kaapo, Markus and Mikko and all of them – in one way or another – helped me settle in. This might explain a little better why I tool my hockey gear from Austria to Finland – even this time and even if Astrid thinks I am crazy (and she has to bare with it). Yesterday after five years and for one hour I became a pelican again, playing for them in a 6-5 exhibition victory over the club’s A-junior team. My line scored five goals, two by myself. There were three guys playing I still knew from back then and when we left the rink one said “great game” – It really was and the score didn’t matter at all. Not this moment. <\/p>\n

I believe.<\/p>\n

PS: “Virtanen and Lahtinen had decided to go drinking at their summerhouse. For a couple hours, both men sat silently and emptied their bottles. After a few more hours, Lahtinen decided to break the ice: “Isn’t it nice to have some quality time?” Virtanen viciously looked at Lahtinen and answered: “Are we here to drink or talk?”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

when I moved to Finland in 2002 I didn’t know anyone, but my girlfriend. No one. Zero. Niente. I started looking for hockey teams and practiced with two or three until I kind of settled in with one of them, the Vaajakosken Pelikaanit, playing division III. I played two seasons for them, partially 2001-2002 and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miracle-drug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}