A PERFECT PLACE AND TIME


One of the main reasons on why I wanted to do my exchange in Finland was because I knew that it would be a perfect place for me since I like quiet places. I’m a very calm person and I knew that Finland was a very calm and quiet place. I wanted to escape from my environment to actually be by myself, meet new people and focus on stuff that I couldn’t really focus on. So, as I set off for my journey, I knew that I had a goal and I had to get it done before leaving. The problem was, I was so overwhelmed and just so excited, I started failing my goal of writing a book. I had to write, I had to get back on track but I just couldn’t. I couldn’t even read what I had written to continue writing. But, I decided to get some help from my tutors and I was set off to write since I now had deadlines for the book. Sometimes, you just need to be pushed I guess. Also, for me something magical happened. Quarantine striked and now everything turned into online schooling. So, this meant that I had to stay at home and get my school work done along with actually really focusing on myself and continuing writing. I believe I am one of those people that now work harder from home than in a normal day rush where you have to be at places at certain times. I decided to sit down and write. I had my headphones and music and I found myself writing more and more. I thought that it was going to be an epic fail since that was why I had chosen to come here to leave with nothing. I must say that the book idea was pretty peculiar and it got me to think of who I am and what I wanted to do. I knew right when I started to continue writing that there was no turning back. Ever. So now, as I am in the process of writing, I find myself more at peace. That’s also one of the greatest things an exchange can make you do, really aim and achieve for your goals with a little push. So when I look back I the future, I will be very proud to state that the book writing process also involved amazing Finland. For now, everything is going great and let’s just see how it goes for the future!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Edward T. Hall’s Cultural Iceberg Model

Image
One of the things I was very much interested in when I came to Finland was the culture. As we all know and as I have written about in my previous posts, culture differs from people to people. I find culture as a very important impact in my life and growing up, I have always been through many different cultures. I must say that I do have many different influences on me caused by these cultures. For me, a culture is a new person, a different character. So, this made me take in interest in Edward Hall’s Iceberg Model. In this model, we can see that many cultures have many important opinions about different topics. For example, some cultures have religion, some have people, and some have animals. It all differs and makes every culture unique in its own way. Along this, Edward Hall really pointed out how we have a surface culture and a deep culture. These all differ very much from people to people. I find it very interesting and think that it is a good way to reflect who we are to o...
Read more

Salmiakki Ice Cream

Image
Let’s talk about something I really love in general: Ice Cream. Now, I must say that summer has officially come (not to Finland in this case since it was basically raining and snowing a couple of days ago) but, summer is out there. And here we are still wearing coats. But, that doesn’t mean you can’t have ice cream! Ice cream is life. One of the best things about summer is, you can have ice cream for breakfast, lunch and dinner. You can even make your own ice cream or popsicles. I remember making these lovely strawberry popsicles last summer, they were healthy too! Overall, everyone loves a bit of ice cream. Coming to ice cream flavours, I am a great bitter chocolate, normal chocolate, strawberry, vanilla and another ice cream type they have fan. As long as it is ice cream, I have no problem gobbling it down. But…Salmiakki ice cream? We need to talk. First of all, as we had tried Salmiakki which you can check out from the video up there! It wasn’t the sweetest f...
Read more

Finnish Is Hard!

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 ...
Read more