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3 day ski/snowboard trip

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During my exchange I stay in a student residence with other exchange students. We have an amazing time here in Kouvola. Although there is not much to do here, the nature is great! Especially Mielakka. This is a place where we go often for a walk and a nice sunset.

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Things the Netherlands and Finland have in common

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Things the Netherlands and Finland have in common

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There are a lot of differences between the Netherlands and Finland. However, there are also some things we actually have in common.

1. Drinking coffee and eating herring

The Finns drink the most coffee per capita in the world. The Netherlands is not far behind and that has nothing to do with the coffee shops. By the way, most of the coffee drunk in Finland is brought from Holland.

Herring belongs strongly to Finnish traditional cuisine as well as to Dutch. Finns eat herring all year round and the Dutch eat it especially during summer. The Dutch habit is to stick an entire salty fish seasoned with at least onion into your mouth.

2. Parsimony

The Dutch are not really fussy about anything, except money. Sometimes I wonder if this quality helped the nation grow to be the trading specialists or if the trading experience made the nation so conscious about money. Anyway, I would not necessarily advice starting a conversation about money in Holland.

The Finns are precise about money too. I think it is a consequence of rationality being valued so strongly. A Finn thinks it is just dumb to pay even ten cents more from something that costs less on the other side of the city. And dumb is the last thing a Finn wants to be.

3. The weather is not a reason not to go out

In Finland, outside air is consumed on a daily basis through summers and winters. Even small children can dress accordingly and put more layers underneath their overalls on a colder day or wear waterproof pants on a rainy day. Everybody wears a hat and gloves. Going out is only a matter of gear and in Finland people are not usually cold as there is right kind of clothing available.

The Dutch, like the Finns, are not afraid of cold, wet or draught, but even if the weather is not a reason to not go outside, it is not a reason to invest in clothing either. The cold is used for hardening a person and even babies hurtle on their bike seats without hats or mittens in almost freezing temperatures.

As a Finn enjoys the warmth of his home wearing a t-shirt even if it is minus twenty (-4F) outside, in Holland the seventeen degree (62F) inside air of a home is used for growing stronger characters.

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One of the things Finns should really pride themselves with is the fact that they offer free education for students, even at the university level. This also applies to international students from EU/EES.

Non-EU-nationals can also enjoy free tuition fees if the classes taken are taught in Finnish or Swedish, or doctoral studies in any language.

For me, this is something that is making me jealous... Because I have to pay over €2000,- each year to study at my university. :(

#TimeToMoveToFinland

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There are more Saunas than Cars

Heard about the Finnish Sauna tradition? If you have, then you will probably not be as surprised by this fact about Finland, but yes, there are more Saunas than cars!

Even Burger King in Helsinki has a Sauna. That’s quite interesting to say the least.

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1. Wife Carrying World Championship

This is one of the 'sports' that has made this country famous all over the world. It is celebrated every summer since 1992 in the city of Sonkajärvi (in the region of Pohjois-Savo, central Finland). The rules are very simple: men race while carrying their female partners through a special obstacle track.
(The first prize in the wife-carrying championship is the wife’s weight in beer)

2. World Mobile Phone Throwing Championships

This international sport's first world championship was arranged for the first time in the city of Savolinna (East Finland). Participants throw their cell phones as far as they can and they are judged depending on the distance and the technique.

3. The Air Guitar World Championships

Finland also gives music lovers, especially rock and heavy metal fans, the chance to get on stage and play like their idols. Can not you play the guitar? Relax, nothing happens. In this championship it is only about simulating your virtuosity when it comes to playing the riffs and solos of your idols.

#Gottalovethiscountry

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Finland turned out to be the perfect country for me, because it turned out it's a coffee addict county. With an average of 12 kg per year, Finnish people drink more coffee per person than anyone else in the world.

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What a beautiful city with nice culture, architecture and some nature. I have been to Helsinki for a full day with one of my flat mates and it has been an amazing adventure.

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Helsinki
This island in the middle of the city felt like an escape. The place is really nice for a long walk. We had great weather this day.

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Helsinki

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Helsinki

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Helsinki