Monday, March 12, 2012

emergencies

i'm trying to make an emergency list of numbers to keep on the fridge in finnish, english, and czech, because we have some visitors coming and plus now that lumi is roaming the apartment i know she's going to eat or touch something really dangerous soon.  i'm super-scared about this all of a sudden.  in helsinki, almost all young people speak english so i don't think it would have been impossible to show up at the hospital with a damaged baby and somehow get everything worked out even without kimmo.  but it's really not the same in the czech republic.  there is one hospital with good english service, and it's not close to our house at all.  and for example kimmo's dad is coming this week and if he's hanging out with lumi alone and something happens, i don't know how he could communicate at the hospital.  he speaks finnish, some swedish, and like 5 words of english.  he does pretty well with pointing and drawing, though, and there's actually a legendary story of him doing some repair work for kimmo's sister in barcelona while they were out and he hit a water pipe, which started leaking water everywhere.  he went downstairs to the doorman and said 'problém! problém!' and the dude came upstairs to see and eventually things got resolved.

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