December 2010
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Happy Holidays everyone! Hope you all filled your tummies full of wonderful food and relaxed in your pajamas :). For Christmas this year I went to visit my relatives in Virtasalmi (about a three hour train ride from Vantaa). It was so wonderful to spend time with them and even though my Finnish is still pretty much rubbish I managed to converse a little bit! The countryside is so beautiful in...
I graduated today. For written Finnish I received a 2.1 and for spoken Finnish a 1.3. (the score 2.1 is the highest). Most of the people have lived here a lot longer than I have so our scores are exact opposites. They learned Finnish speaking to their friends and I’m learning Finnish now by writing exercises.
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Fadumo, Omar, Bashir, Abdisatar, Sudawon, me, Ali, Naomi,...
Working on Christmas presents/letters since...
Today the class (meaning only 5 out of 13 because the rest are bums) went into Helsinki and our teacher took us around to some museums and then finally the Christmas market. We saw some people skiing down the steps of the cathedral! Yes there is a massive amount of snow. I stayed to finish my Christmas shopping with Sudawan :)
Inside the Helsinki Cathedral. This is my favourite building ever.
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So much snow in Vantaa! We live in a snow globe that shakes, shakes, shakes. It’s nicer when it snows because the weather is warmer…which makes checking the weather by looking out the window very, very deceiving. Amazingly enough, public transportation is always on time. If it is late, it’s only by about 10 minutes or less. Today we took a test in the language course for next...
Just found this from my friend Rob’s facebook. It makes me wonder what the Finns were doing for so long while being wrenched back and forth between Sweden and Russia. Just kidding, we can kick your ass.
A more recent account but it’s Wikipedia so who the hell knows.
This past week Tarja and I went into Helsinki to get 1€ glasses of wine at Bakers. A guy named Janne (Jaane, Jaanne, en tiedä anteeksi!) invited us to a karaoke bar. Obviously yes. Funny enough it was the same karaoke bar I had seen walking back from Cafe mascot and I wanted to go so bad. We met a group of really awesome people…I have yet to understand why people kept cautioning me about...
I, Sara Jee Hei the numb legged and super tired, solemnly swear to never miss the 2.30am train ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever again. This year. Probably.
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Today is “Hug a Finn” day! I’m a bit short on options so I hugged a dog.