The few years after COVID, I put a hault on most traveling, except to visit family in the US. Outside of US trips, in 2023 I went to Berlin and a town outside of Stockholm with work. Besides our honeymoon in Rhodes, in 2024 we traveled to the US to attend two weddings, and I …
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Two Jobs Later
After returning from the U.S. in June, I began officially working as a Sustainability Research Trainee at the UPM Research Center in Lappeenranta, where I had started as a language trainee during my intensive Finnish course. Though I continued chatting with my boss in Finnish as much as I could, I gradually spoke less and …
First Time Home in a Year
Due to the pandemic and working my summer job, I wasn’t able to go home during the summer as usual. Previously, the longest I had been away from home was 6 months, so this 11 months was quite a stretch. On Sunday, December 20th we began our travel. You read that right: we. For this …
Fulbright Adventures in Finland 