Hello everyone, Unfortunately this is my last entry for my column for not only does school end, but my year of living in Finland is coming to a close. I have experienced, in what I think, everything that Finland has to offer. I’ve seen the seasons change from full of…
Languages, it’s what we use to communicate. I recently posted something on Facebook about how I wanted people to stop speaking English to me. So far a lot of people have been speaking Finnish to me. I really enjoy speaking your language. It is a challenge for me and I…
It is now my fourth month in Finland and I have to say, it has been incredible! I have made many friends here and they are all very important to me. I appreciate all of the people who have come out and have been my friend. But besides school, you…
For the few months that I have been in Finland I feel like I have had many friends so far. I mostly know 3rd and 1st graders in the school because my host brother is in the 3rd grade. I met his friends within my second week in Finland. I…
Being a primarily English speaker and not knowing much Finnish, I wondered how it would be not understanding anything that the teacher is saying. I really wondered if I would learn anything at all. Surprisingly I have learned actually a lot. At first I couldn’t understand a thing, so I…
Hello, my name is Evan Cross and I am a foreign exchange student from the United States, and more specifically in New Mexico. I only left for Finland at the very beginning of August and this first month has been incredible. I have met a lot of new faces and…