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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Wedding Bells
Linnea proposed to me the day before Valentine’s Day in February 2022. Before this we already knew that we wanted to get married in July since this is the holiday month in Finland, meaning almost everyone is off on holiday (yes, for a whole month!). This would make international travel much easier. In July 2022, …
Five-Month Intensive Finnish Course
As an unemployed immigrant who had been living in Finland for less than three years, I was eligible for integration training. For me this meant a full-time, five-month Finnish course, which I began during the second week of January. Unlike the first language-culture courses that I participated in during my first summer in Finland, the …
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 