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 …
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 …
Language-Culture Course: Week 3
On Saturday my dad came to visit me since he was working near Amsterdam the week prior. It was the perfect trip to split up 6 months of being away from home. Fortunately, the program was set up to accommodate guests. While I was in class, he did his own thing- walking around the city, …
Fulbright Adventures in Finland 