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Suck it up and keep going
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Finns are a straightforward nation. We mean what we say, we do the work assigned without hassle. We’re not keen on admitting to our weaknesses, the general rule is to suck it up and keep going. I, however, came out recently with my fear of flyi...
Blogs about Finland
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I get a lot of comments from people who want to read about Finland and what it’s really like. And in the true Finnish public service spirit, I now provide you a list of good blogs about Finland I’ve come across. Life in Finland The blog d...
Finnish (misplaced) optimism
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I admit, I thought our nation was a bunch of terminally pessimistic people with a tendency to always overlook the bright side of things. But this week has proven me wrong and it was the weather that brought about this change. Thermal spring has final...
Walking
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Us Finns, we’re all country people at heart. And we’re built like country folk. So more often than not, we rely on our own two feet to get us from place A to B. Not everybody would walk from Hanko to Nuorgam but if a Finn a says “It...
Still world’s best at self-validation
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Finns have a small inferiority complex over our place in the world. We’re small, there’s not a lot of us and we’re stuck in northern Europe, next to that bloody successful Sweden and infamous Russia. As a result, whenever Finland do...
Mating rituals
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Seeing as I’ve now somewhat come into terms with the fact I’ll make Finland my country of residence permanently, I’ve also resigned to the fact I’ll probably need to snatch myself a Finnish guy. But how does one do it? From al...
Languages
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Finns take it to extremes with languages and our the number of languages we speak is generally met in awe anywhere in the anglosphere. Let me start off by recounting the languages I’ve studied in my life: I started English in third grade. Germa...
Souvenirs from Finland
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I’ll be visiting a few friends abroad in the next few months and started looking into what could I bring as a souvenir from Finland. As I googled away it became pretty obvious that Finns are experts in self-sabotage, we take the weirdest and fu...
Souvenirs from Finland
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I’ll be visiting a few friends abroad in the next few months and started looking into what could I bring as a souvenir from Finland. As I googled away it became pretty obvious that Finns are experts in self-sabotage, we take the weirdest and fu...
Say what? Finnish idioms and phrases
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Now I’ve been away from Finland for quite a while and sometimes it’s obvious when I speak Finnish. But it’s never more obvious when people start using random new phrases and I have a huge question mark on my face. Like in every lang...
Say what? Finnish idioms and phrases
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Now I’ve been away from Finland for quite a while and sometimes it’s obvious when I speak Finnish. But it’s never more obvious when people start using random new phrases and I have a huge question mark on my face. Like in every lang...
Love thy neighbour
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Finland’s geographical situation is a curious one. Not only are we far up north, we share a large border with Russia. Then there’s the practically uninhabited part of Norway and a slither of Sweden. And across the Gulf of Finland, we have...
Love thy neighbour
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Finland’s geographical situation is a curious one. Not only are we far up north, we share a large border with Russia. Then there’s the practically uninhabited part of Norway and a slither of Sweden. And across the Gulf of Finland, we have...
Bus etiquette
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There’s a lot of space in Finland, we are after all the third most sparsely populated country in Europe after Iceland and Norway. So the concept of personal space can go to extremes at times. Sometimes proximity to strangers is unavoidable, for...
Bus etiquette
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There’s a lot of space in Finland, we are after all the third most sparsely populated country in Europe after Iceland and Norway. So the concept of personal space can go to extremes at times. Sometimes proximity to strangers is unavoidable, for...
Fashion
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In all my years abroad, I’ve heard three comments about the Finnish fashion sense. Not three themes of comments, three in total. So let me enlighten you on the Finnish fashion sense. One girl once said to me how she absolutely loves Hel Looks.
Fashion
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In all my years abroad, I’ve heard three comments about the Finnish fashion sense. Not three themes of comments, three in total. So let me enlighten you on the Finnish fashion sense. One girl once said to me how she absolutely loves Hel Looks.
Allergies
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My sister used to joke on how she wanted to make a movie about a girl with lactose-intolerance. It would probably have a huge market in Finland since everybody seems to be intolerant to lactose. In my current work, I deal a lot with visitor groups an...
Allergies
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My sister used to joke on how she wanted to make a movie about a girl with lactose-intolerance. It would probably have a huge market in Finland since everybody seems to be intolerant to lactose. In my current work, I deal a lot with visitor groups an...
Practically related
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There are 5 389 170 people in Finland (1/11/2011). There’s also a theory that most people are connected through six degrees of separation; meaning that if you’d name a random person anywhere in the world, there’s only a six people s...
