With everything that is going on, we decided to do a positive podcast! 

Niina and Chris talk about positive things that have been going on their lives, some positive news and Chris learns some Finnish! (finally) 

Links to things mentioned : 

- Cheer on Netflix 

- Great books that Niina has read recently : Reni Eddo-Lodge : Why am I no longer talking to white people about race , Nikesh Shukla ed. - The Good Immigrant, Roxane Gay - Bad Feminist, and Finnish one Minja Koskela - Ennen Kaikkea Feministi (if anyone wants to start learning some Finnish..)

- Chris' book : Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing  - The Mushroom at the end of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins 

Positive news : 

- Sculptures returned to Afghanistan

- The Kashmiri Woman Who Spent Her Life's Savings on Stocking Sanitary Pads in Public Washrooms

- These elephants travel 12 hours to mourn human who rescued them

- Schools in England to offer free sanitary products

- Reduced pollution due to COVID-19 in China 

- European Space Agency to launch world’s first space clean-up

- Powering forward: how energy in the UK has transformed in a decade

- New award celebrates acts of kindness to people and the planet

Finnish words for people who want to learn : 

- yliopisto (university) 

- ylioppilaskirjoitukset (basically means A-levels) 

- hyvää yötä (good night)

Folklore gods : 

- Ukko (the boss of the gods, god of weather and thunderstorm)

- Ahti (god of water, good one, helps fishermen) 

- Näkki (in water as well, but malicious, if spelled Nakki, means hot dog)