Introduction

It took me a while to decide to start this blog but after a while I came to the conclusion that it would be a nice way to meet other people to talk to about Finland, as well as a place to be able to get my passions out and to look back at it if I end up reaching my dream.

So to say this simply, Finland is my dream.  Everything I’ve heard about it, the education system, the social system, the culture, the language, has made me fall in love with Finland and my dream is to go there.  I at least want to visit, but my big dream is to one day move there.

This blog is going to include my opinions about things concerning Finland, reviews of websites and language textbooks, as well as simply discussing thing involved with Finland as well as many other items.  Hopefully one day I can post while being in Finland, and what it’s like to actually live there. 

I want this to be more than an introduction post so I’m going to delve into my plan a little bit as to what I’m going to do to one day try to live in Finland.

First off my plan is to visit Finland during the summer, for a minimum off two weeks but hopefully for a max of about a month.  I have a friend in Finland who I’ve known since I was a pre-teen and so luckily I’m going save a lot of money not having to spend anything on hotels.  I’ll go into more details in a different post about what I’m budgeting, how I’m saving the money, and what I’m planning on doing.

Of course it’s impossible to understand what it’s like to live in a country for a short amount of time, so I’ve been looking into different ways to get permits for a short amount of time.  I looked in universities briefly, trying to see if I could get a Master’s degree there, but you need around six thousand euros in your bank account to go there for study and it’s going to take me a while to come up with that kind of money, as well as finding degree’s I would be interested in getting there.

I began to hear about Au Pair’s, and as I’m currently working for towards my degree in Early Childhood Education and Development, I would love the opportunity to be a nanny and work with kids.  You can be an Au Pair in Finland for up to a year, which would give me the opportunity to see if I actually like living there and to see if I can survive the Finland winters (being a Florida girl).  If I figure out it’s different than I thought, then the year will look wonderful on my resume, and if not, if I really find that I love it there, then I can start looking for an actual job there and get a residence permit for work.  Which I have in mind for that, I could be a nanny or work in an English speaking day care, but either way I’d be happy doing anything.

I’ll go into more details about all these things in future posts, but that’s the basis of my plans at the moment.  It’s subject to change, and this is of course over many years, but this is my dream and I hope that if you stick with this blog that you’ll be able to enjoy my passion and my journey towards Finland and all things Finnish.

Kiitos!  Moi moi!