Reading Time: 11 minutesOur Journey to Finland — Part 7 Becoming a sairaanhoitaja, or registered nurse, in Finland was not something that happened the moment I arrived in the country. In fact, the journey started many years before Finland was even part of our plans. It began when I chose…
Reading Time: 10 minutesMy YKI Test Journey — Part 6H I’ve already taken the Finnish YKI test twice. I’ve already experienced the nervousness before the exam, the pressure during it, the long wait for the results… and thankfully, the relief of finding out that I passed. Twice. 💚 So if…
Reading Time: 10 minutesMy YKI Test Journey — Part 6G I thought the hardest part of the YKI test would be speaking. Or maybe listening. Perhaps sitting inside the examination room trying to understand Finnish while the clock kept running. But after taking my first YKI test, I discovered another…
Reading Time: 8 minutesMy YKI Test Journey — Part 6F Everything about preparing for the YKI test felt difficult in one way or another. The Finnish language itself is difficult. There were words to memorize, grammar rules to understand, sentences to form, conversations to follow, and so many unfamiliar expressions…
Reading Time: 10 minutesMy YKI Test Journey — Part 6E If speaking required me to think quickly and writing required me to keep my hand moving, the reading and listening parts of YKI required something else entirely: concentration. A lot of it. For me, these two subtests were challenging in…
