The first scholarship holders of the semester dancer Rea-Liina Brunou and docent of art pedagogy, Marjo Räsänen arrived to Villa Karo in the beginning of September.
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Shake it up on September 15 at Arbis!
The Swedish Adult Education Centre Arbis will be offering in ten days probably the most multicultural event of the week-end in Helsinki. Do you feel like learning West-African playing and dancing in Swedish and English? Do you want to know more about the culture Benin?
If yes, the place to go is Arbis.
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Animal life in Villa Karo
Villa Karo’s dogs: Jaakko, Jaana, Juha and Paula got vaccinated.
Villa Karo and the areas surrounding it are also the home of hundreds of lizards, several pigeons who love to nest under the terrace roof and also sheep and goats who don’t actually live in Villa Karo, but absolutely adore the plants in the garden!
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Villa Karo Week of Maintenance
Villa Karo is preparing for the autumn semester to begin. This week has been a week of maintenance and everybody is busy preparing the house for the scholarship holders who will begin to settle in the house from next week on, as Kwassi has written already.
The see is wild and the air is windy. The coolest time of the year, say the locals. Even if the air sweetly touches the human skin and deliberately winds the dogs fur, the touch is rough for the dead souls of the house. The wooden doors, the book selves, the pieces of art, the furniture — they all need someone to assist them in their encounter with the salty air. Constant work is being done by the Villa Karo staff during the year tackling the forces of nature and it all seems to culminate in this week. It’s time for waxing, washing, rubbing, polishing, cleaning and airing.
This is also a good time to arrive at Grand-Popo and to begin one’s share in writing this blog. I am the internship trainee of Villa Karo during this autumn and will be reporting on the happenings in Villa Karo during my stay here to keep the readers updated on what is going on at this corner of the world, still so unfamiliar to me.
