Many books in local library

I was yesterday to Nykarleby, the town where Anna Kempe was born. Or actually in a small village just outside the town. Her familyname is also maybe connected to Juthbacka. In the 1700's a man named Daniel Kempe, his wife Helena, and their son Samuel Kempe owned the yellow house by the riverside. Samuel Kempe had nine children. But that might be a totally different story.

Anna Kempe wrote most of her letters from India to her brother Johannes Kempe in Munsala. He married Amanda Nynäs and they also got many children. One of them my granny Linnéa.

Anna Kempe also wrote letters and columns for several christian magazines. Telling about what she experienced in India. She also there participated in a Bible translating project and wrote articles for a newspaper.

She had studied to be a teacher and a nurse, and besides all her writing she tried to help the women in the area at childbirth for example.

På engelska då...

I will continue writing here in english. In Finland today there is a magazine in finnish language named Anna. The picture is from this women's magazine, an article about a man from India that wanted to teach Bollywood dancing in Tammerfors. (Tampere).

This has not so much to do with Anna Kempe, but as a way to playfully get started, with understanding more about India today: I figured it might be a good idea.

The girls here are from Finland, but they made their Bollywood dancing suits themselves.

Songtexts and music are good ways of learning languages also.

I doubt Anna Kempe would have joined dancing classes, but she used to teach the girls english while working with handicraft, such as weaving, because she noted that was the way she could tempt the local girls to come join her in the schoolroom. They were otherwise shy and the families in the area thought it was an unusual idea to send their daughters to school.

Om att studera engelska

Anna Kempe levde för över hundra år sedan. Hon var min farmor Linneas faster och en av de första flickorna här på västkusten i Finland som fick chansen att gå i skola och lära sig läsa och skriva. Hon växte upp i en liten stuga i Munsala som idag är en del av Nykarleby. Men sedan kom tanken att hon ville arbeta som lärarinna och därför fortsatte hon att studera i Ekenäs där man på den tiden utbildade de första kvinnorna till lärare i vårt land. När hon hade arbetat som lärare i några år, bland annat i Kronoby i Österbotten kände hon sig redo för nästa utmaning: Hon ville bli missionär och fara till Indien och allra helst till Tibet. Vägen dit gick via språkstudier i engelska. Utbildningen ordnades i London.

Sommaren och våren 2018 skriver jag  mera här om engelska böcker som jag läst.

Det blir säkert också en och annan bildtext eller någon uppdatering av bloggen på engelska.

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