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Sisu and Finnish Nightmares

Finland is roughly 80% the size of California with approximately 33% of the country situated above the Arctic Circle (next weekends adventure – stay tuned). ...

Finnish Educational System

About half of my fellow Fulbrighters here in Finland are K-12 teachers back in the US. These teachers are part of the Fulbright Teacher Exchange...

Fulbright Finland Foundation Orientation

The end of last week was spent in Helsinki attending a mandatory orientation that was provided by the Fulbright Finland Foundation (FFF).  There are several...

Walk to work

Terveisia, I’ve been asked about food here in Finland – that however will be the subject for another blog.  A few others have asked about...

Paris in Winter

All, It’s been a relatively busy week or so here in Kuopio.  I’ve started teaching at UEF and have learned that most (~75%) of the...

Grocery shopping at 17F

I started work at UEF this week and we are slowly adapting to life here in Kuopio. The School of Pharmacy is about 2 km...