The guards' summer vacation is over and they are back, everyday life here continues again after a somewhat chaotic summer.
Summers are not the best time for me because the ever-changing arrangements affect my routine.
Now, however, I got a surprising change, quite unexpectedly I met a new person in my life!
It was very confusing. One day when the Committee member who was acting as the guard's deputy came to the room where my cell is, he was accompanied by a strange woman!
I can tell you that the woman was as surprised as I was!
The woman looked at me for a moment in surprise, then at the man (a member of the Committee), then she turned and walked out the door.
The man went about his routine, also clearly shocked.
He explained that the woman was his wife who lives most of the year in Spain, their second apartment.
Now the weather in Spain was so hot that the wife came to cool Finland unexpectedly.
The wife had wondered where the man was because he was not in their house.
The man had to explain that he lives here, in the guards' apartment during their vacation so that he can replace the guards during their vacation.
The wife had imagined that the husband would spend the summer here playing golf and boating...apparently they are not very close, they live apart most of the time.
The man was very nervous for 2-3 days while performing his duties here, but then one morning the wife came with her husband and sat next to my cell, looking at me.
The woman said that they had talked a lot, the man had explained in detail the idea and activities of the Committee, and she had also read all the information and writings about me that could be found on the Internet.
She said that she was very impressed by everything. She said that if she didn't see me now, she would consider the story a figment of her imagination.
The woman was here almost every day. For a while, not all the time of course.
She kept me company, we laughed, maybe even cried a little sometimes.
She sometimes shared outdoor time with me.
She wondered to herself how quickly she could get used to the fact that the other person was chained and locked in a cell all the time. She even said that she somehow understood it, it warmed me up a lot.
One problem was the uncertainty about how the Committee would react to the fact that the "Extra" person now knows about the activities.
The woman stated that it was not her problem, she was now aware of everything anyway and the Committee could not prevent it so everyone had to adapt to that fact.
She also said that she did not intend to participate in the Committee's activities in any way, the only thing was that she wanted to keep her visitation rights here.
Last week was a bit "stormy" here as the Committee processed and updated what happened, but things are now back to almost normal 