Reading Time: 15 minutesMy Finnish Language Journey — Part 5A When I started learning Finnish in 2023, I wasn’t sitting inside a classroom in Finland. I wasn’t surrounded by Finnish speakers. And Finland was still thousands of kilometers away. I was living in Dubai, working full-time, taking care of our…
Reading Time: 17 minutesBefore Finland became our home, Finnish first became a language I had to learn. In 2023, I barely knew anything about the Finnish language. A year later, I was living in a small town in Finland where suddenly the words I had been memorizing through a computer…
Reading Time: 10 minutesAfter trying my first baked blueberry cheesecake, I naturally became curious about making another version. This time, I wanted something a little simpler. No oven. No baking. Just chilling. So I decided to try making a no-bake blueberry cheesecake. I used almost the same flavors I already…
Reading Time: 14 minutesOur Journey to Finland — Part 4 Getting a job in Finland was one major step. But having an employment contract didn’t automatically mean that we could simply pack our bags, board a plane, and start our new life there. Before we could actually move, there was…
Reading Time: 16 minutesOur Journey to Finland — Part 1 Finland was never part of our original dream. If you had asked my husband and me years ago where we imagined ourselves eventually settling, I don’t think either of us would have answered, “Finland.” Canada? Maybe. Australia? Perhaps. The United…
