Sauna

If someone told me that I would like sauna before this exchange year started I would have laughed about that.
But somehow I really like it. I've never been to a sauna in Germany (except for one time as a child and it only took 2 minutes because I hated it), so my hostfamily spend some time explaining this sauna thing to me. We have our own sauna in our countryhome (no electric sauna but a sauna with a real oven), so we're saunaing on weekends, when we're on our countryside. And it's not only about sitting there and sweating. It's more like sauna-party. Talking, laughing, listening to music, and sometimes after the third round running through the garden to jump in our lake (really cold!) and run back.
I think latvian saunaing you can compare with the latvian mentality: spontaneous, relaxed, happy, just doing stuff for no good reason except for the reason it's funny or weird or both. I love it.