I’ve left Finland now. You can view my final photos. Here are a few of my favorites… The girls headed for the bus. What is wrong with this photo? Can you find Waldo? I finally got to see another sunrise. They take forever, so I couldn’t wait around for the perfect photo. I was driving [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Finland’
25 Nov
Lahti for lunch
Tim, Ryan and I ventured half an hour to the city of Lahti. We were expecting something on the scale of Bangor, ME. The Finnish refer to it as “The Business City,” so my expectations were that of factories, mills and offices. What they meant was shopping. The main drag is lit up like Hong [...]
25 Nov
Fascinated by German TV
I am sucked in by German television. I have one channel and it seems that they repeat the same shows once in German and once in English. I think the thing that threw me was one of the news programs where the people were speaking American instead of British english. It first hit me when [...]
24 Nov
China vs Blues
I went to a hockey game last night. The Chinese National Women’s Ice Hockey Team against The Blues of Finland. The Blues have only two players who haven’t yet played on Finland’s national team. Needless to say, The Blues were a very difficult team to play and China didn’t fare well. More pictures on .Mac [...]
24 Nov
Just like Maine….
So Finland is looking a lot like Maine. It really is. Big pine trees, birch trees, lakes, rocks, empty highways. Of course, here the cities are a lot bigger, and it has actually been warmer and there is no snow right now. There might be some snow before I leave. I had one sunny day [...]
20 Nov
I’m in Finland
It hit me somewhere over the Atlantic that I was not going to be getting off the plane on the east coast. That I was going to a foreign country where I can’t speak the language (which makes it somewhat difficult to navigate this pc at the moment) and where most of the people I’ll [...]
15 Oct
Cotton Candy
Today was a pretty good day. The day started with a little purple Koolaid and being told that I get the whole week of Thanksgiving off this year. That is like the best present ever for someone who has only accrued about 2 days of vacation so far. A video iPod or options would have [...]
