Víspera del día de Todos los Santos aka Halloween

Photography rights: Saara Salmi & Marco Melander

Halloween, the best holiday there is. At least I think so because I have never been a Christmas-person and New year's Eve is just another excuse to drink like "Vappu" and the rest of the holidays are just boring. I thought of telling something about me instead of what I usually write in this blog like music, news and stuff like that.

I also decided to write in english this time, lately I've been writing in spanish much more than in finnish and after all I have said that I might sometimes write in english and this topic is quite hard for me in spanish anyways.

So usually Halloween is celebrated the 30th or 31th of October but at least in Finland you can also celebrate it the 6th of November which is actually the Finnish Swedish Heritage Day and also a flag day so basically it's a holiday and also the 310th day of the year. We celebrated this Halloween in a very fancy way I might say!

Couple of my friends decided after seeing the movie From Hell (with Johnny Depp) again that it's time to organize something fun for Halloween and what would be better then the mystery of Jack the Ripper and the brutal murders which he committed to at least five prostitutes. Probably everyone knows at least something about this story. The year was 1888 in London and the case didn't quite never got closed, at least it became a mystery who was this person calling himself Jack the Ripper.

Anyways my friends had this opportunity to plan a murder mystery with their friend who's family has this big creepy mansion deep in the woods about 45min away from Helsinki. It was the perfect place to have a little game in fancy old clothes and long story short let's just say it was worth all the trouble.

We were divided in prostitutes, detectives, police officers and journalists. Then we walked in the dark with a lantern and a map searching for clues: body in the water, a task to eat the worst pies of London, learn how to shoot a rifle and I actually put my hand in a fake corpse with actual meat made to look like human organs because one of the clues were inside it. We also had to solve a riddle in the China opium-room and make a drink of Absinthe (thank god I have sometimes tasted that poison so I knew how) and all this together was probably the best Halloween-party I have ever participated because althought we drank, it was classy fun. It wasn't just mindless drinking somewhere in a cheap costume.

So a late Happy Halloween for everyone and I recommend you do something like this next year because you will have memories that you won't forget!

Music for the creepy mood:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9geleJTaUI&feature=related

Las putas son personas.

Joder, han hecho una Encuesta nacional de salud (2009) en otoño y no la he visto pero acabo de leer sobre las prostitutas en España. No sabia que no hay ningun ley contra vender servicios en las calles pero lo pensé la ultima vez cuando estaba en Madrid. A todos no le gustan andar la calle de la Montera si quieren pasar por la Puerta del Sol y es por las prostitutas que estan siempre alli despues de las 21 todos los dias. Es la esquina de McDonald's si te pasas por la calle Gran Vía pero mi experiencía es que no hablan para las mujeres sino para los hombres porque a mi y mi amiga nos dejaros en paz, solo tienes que vigilar un poco mejor tu bolso.

De todos modos no estaba hablando sobre esto sino sobre la declaración de Carmen Briz, portavoz del colectivo Hetaira que casi un tercio de los hombres españoles ha contratado alguna vez una prostituta! Y ahora las prostitutas y Carmes Briz quieren que normalizasemos esa profesión. Es como decir que no hay ningún otra manera para las mujeres (y hombres) de esta profesión trabajar que vender su cuerpo, que no hay ningún otra opción para estas personas. No se si soy inocente o cándido pero me gustaria creer que siempre hay algun otro opción en este mundo. Si no, no es por culpa de este gente pero la sistema que no nos da ningún ayuda para cambiar.

Link para la noticia entero: http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2010/10/30/espana/1288421248.html

Pero la problema de prostitución hay en todos los lugares del mundo pero por ejemplo aqui en Finlandia es ilegal y por eso no se ven.