Blogs from Uusimaa, Finland, Europe - page 37

Ah... I'm really liking Finland! ;) i had a wee bit of trouble getting past passport control at the airport because the controller guy asked me how long i plan to stay, where i was headed to after this, have i ever been in europe before. about a week, estonia, and yes, about 6 times? all the meanwhile he was flipping through my passport. then he tells me that the reason he asks is because he doesn't see any other EU stamps in my passport... the implication being hm, is she ever going to leave finland... and i suppose it didn't help matters that i only had a plane ticket IN to the country and i had no return flight planned. yet. but he let me in after he found a fainted exit stamp from italy. ... read more

ATTENTION: Sorry again about the extra emails. No, I am not in South America. Just cleaning up some of my old blogs and unfortunately it's way too much effort to not send those emails. Read them if you want...... or don't. Thanks to everyone who has emailed me, sent messages and left comments. It's good to know that people are actually reading my blogs and I'm not wasting my time, spending hours writing them and posting pictures. It's also good to have a bunch of emails in the Inbox after lining up forever (in my free time) to get a computer at the Sotku. I've been getting lots of "sounds like your having a great time" etc. Thanks, but let's get one thing straight right now. This is the military! I'd like to be able to ... read more

I'm really not sure how to start writing this journal. Right now I'm in Finland, and due to my Finnish citizenship, doing 6 or so months National Service in the Finnish Navy. Yeah, I know, it sounds kind of random if I hadn't told you already. So yeah, I got here about 3 weeks ago. The trip took about 50 hours, I had to stay overnight in Darwin on the way, such a pain. I also managed to pick up a stomach bug and a case of diarrhea on the way though, I think it was from some water at Bangkok airport, but you never know. I spent the weekend at a friend's house in Riihimäki, about an hour drive north of Helsinki. It was great to have somewhere to recover and people that I knew ... read more

Noin, ilman suurempia kommelluksia pääsin jo Helsinki-Vantaalle asti. Vasta täällä saanut nyt ensimmäisiä rauhoittumisen ja pysähtymisen hetkiä, viime viikot ja päivät suhahti ohi kyllä samanlaisessa hujauksessa, kuin ensimmäinen kulaus aamun stressioluesta.. Huh, nyt kun vähän on jo aikaa miettiä, millainen hyppy tuntemattomaan tämä valinta tässä vaiheessa onkaan, iski pientä (tervettä) stressiä ja pelkoa tulevasta. Ja toisaalla mielen käsittelykyvyn tilasta taistelee myös vapauden, muutoksen ilon ja hyvän ajan odotuksen tunteet, joten hieman pyörällään päästä ollaan tässä vaiheessa. Tai sitten se onkin vain pelkkä väsymys aikaisesta herätyksestä. Ensimmäinen asia mikä tuli nyt heti alussa opittua itsestään on se, että kirjoittaminen on kyllä yllättävän hidasta ja työlästä, kun ei muutamaan vuoteen ole pahemmin tullut harjoiteltua, eli toisin sanoen nettiaika loppuu tähän. Sen halusi... read more

Hi All.. So Helsinki.. the ferry ride was a lot of fun.. There were these 6 or 7 guys all wearing blond wigs, 3 of them were in Superman costumes and I mean full on superman costumes.. never did find out what that was all about.. maybe a stag. The ferry is just a big party.. met 2 guys named Hake.. they were hilarious.. Helsinki is a lot like Stockholm as it is a city on serveral islands. I went to all the usual tourist places.. catherdrals, museums, squares. There is a market every day selling a little bit of everything. The market was a great place to try a little bit of the local cuisine without committing to a huge reindeer steak or something.. haha My favorite place was an Island Fortress called Suomenlinna. Its ... read more