Dilara The Explorer

I always had this dream of visiting ‘’Lapland’’ and seeing the Northern Lights for a couple of years. Well in general, I would always tell people that I would really just go and visit one day,in the future. It happened quicker than I thought it would, I finally got to visit and see Lapland! And let me tell you, it was amazing. First of all, let’s go right back to the beginning of this awesome trip. Me and my friends were going to travel with a bus, so we had to take a train to Tampere first. So we do our daily routines and than we are off at around 7 PM on the train, going there. I’m thinking ‘’Okay, it’s just Tampere right? Nothing special.’’ But how wrong was I! Tampere, even at night looked so magical! I loved the city so much! It almost had this weird combination of old and new but it looked cool? Industrial cities are normally pretty boring but with Tampere, there was this thing I just could not explain! Definitely taking a trip back there in daytime, although I did tour aroun...

Today, I wanted to write about something I have not written in a long time but wanted to write about. Let’s talk about the Finnish language! The first thing I would like to state out is, as knowing English for many years myself, it is very easy for me to be able to predict what other languages mean and to figure out their sentences or words to their meanings. As you understand a language more, you realize that you start to understand other languages too…well that changed now but still.This year, like every other year, my goal was to learn something new which can be information wise or starting something new but this year, I learnt one very major thing : Finnish cannot be predicted. You can’t make out any words or sentences in Finnish. In fact, you can’t even remember the words you learnt in Finnish after a couple of minutes! Why is it so hard? What I have seen is the fact that Finnish has words in words which means, there are separate words, than if you want to say something that ...