July 11, 2009

• What will I miss?

  When I first announced that I would be returning to the states several people were surprised and said--"I thought you liked it in Finland..."  Well, I do--I have had a wonderful decade here in Finland!  Anyway, the last few nights as Alpo and I have gone on our nightly walk, I've started making mental lists of things that I will miss about Finland.  Here is what I've thought about (I'm sure there are more things that I haven't yet considered) and no way is it in order of what I will miss the most:

  1. The 'walking' streets
  2. The excellent public transportation
  3. Being able to take the dog out at midnight and feeling completely safe (right now  it is still light)
  4. Not understanding the irrelevant conversations around me (as I can just tune it out as background noise)
  5. Pirkka Lasagna
  6. Dumle chocolate
  7. MY FRIENDS (the top on the list)
  8. Not being charged extra for using a bank machine
  9. 30 mb/s unlimited internet access
  10. My unlimited mobile broadband
  11. The Finnish sarcastic/ironic humor (which is so close to my own--many Americans see sarcasm/irony in a negative light)
  12. I'm sure there is more...

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