Hanus G. Johansen's humble cake.
Walked: 8km
On Friday the 18th June we had lectures about literature and also in the afternoon a guest lecture about children's literature. FYI (curious fact): all Faroese children over 10 years of age received a copy of Robinson Kruso (Robinson Crusoe) in the year 1914. Those who didn't get one, were bitter 'til the end:)
After school we went to the Nordic House (Norðurlandahúsið í Føroyum) to celebrate a local troubadour's, Hanus G. Johansen's 60th birthday party. The party had public access and the house was more or less full. The concert was nice, Hanus'es voice could be described as something between Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan. Some of us bought his cd:s and got them signed by the birthday-boy.
Hanus G. Johansen.
The adventure of this event was the following:
Hanus'es beatiful, raven like, goth-daughter announced that there would be a surprise in the other concert hall. I got up and went there. The eager amateur photographer that I am, I decided to sit in the front row (easy access in and out) to get some good shots of the surprise to come. Well, as it happened, Hanus sat next to me! I was a bit uncomfortable because I hadn't thought about that the first row could be seen as VIP places.. And I couldn't really leave either, because that would seem rude. When people came over to congratulate Hanus, they looked at me surely thinking: "Who is this person!?" So I decided to congratulate him and so we shook hands:) He seemed like a nice and happy man!
The birthday surprise was a super-duper hard core thrash metal performance by a band called Synarchy. The concert was actually awesome and Hanus enjoyed it too! This would normally not be my cup of tea, but these young Faroese guys played very well: the vocal range of the singer was awesome (not that I could make out what they were saying) and they were energetic and had a good charisma on stage. I was told that 60% of the people in the concert left, because they couldn't take the "noise":) :)
Haha, well, it all went well in the end.
Synarchy in action.
After Hanus'es party (with the concert, the surprise concert, a huuuuge cake and coffee), we went to get some groceries for Saturday. And then we sat in the harbor, enjoying the last rays of the warm sun, drinking some Koskenkorva (a Finn is not a Finn without Kossu;). Afterwards we went to Café Natur and I stayed out until around 01 o'clock.
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