Thursday, August 26, 2010

First List of Differences

There are so many differences between Finland and Upstate New York, some are huge, others harder to define. But here's from day 19 in Finland, differences I've noticed so far:
  • No meal is not complete without AT LEAST one of the following: butter, jam, or ketchup
  • No bathtubs
  • Eat with forks in left hand, knife in right
  • Juice/milk/soda, come in tiny cartons, havent seen a gallon jug in 3 weeks!
  • Tiny cars
  • Mullets and MChammer pants = IN!
  • Eyebrows = OUT!
  • Texting = IN, why talk when you could text?
  • Finns love Finns, love to look @ Finns (there are mirrors EVERYWHERE) I mean in Maple Hill, the girls had to FIGHT for one small, like half size mirror in the down stairs bathroom. At this school there's a full wall of mirror right when you walk in, and other various mirrors sckattered all around the rest of the building
  • Lock Everything!!! classrooms, cars, bikes, homes, saunas... I mean Finland's suposed to be safe, but I guess things can go missing in safe places too!"
  • "What's for breakfast?" "Oh it's lunch"
  • Mailboxes, I don't even know how to explain these, they all look like.... oh the place you are suposed to drop needles off in... those plastic containers... idk, hard to explain.
  • "What's a school bus?"
Thats all I got for now, I know there is WAY more but I can't function right now... ha

1 comment:

  1. this is soo cool i cant even imagine what finland must be like...
    u better still be playing horn! :P haha
    omg and was it hard to get ur horn on the plane?? cause im scared about that..
    how do they wash themselves without bathtubs? why dont ppl have eyebrows? do u walk to school if theres no buses? oh and i eat with my fork in my left hand tooo id fit right in hehe
    ummm ill send u a letter when i get all settled in michigan. LOVE YOUUUUUUU!
    -Caitlin <3

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