What does Finnishness mean to me? First my mind was totally empty but then I started to think about the things that makes me feel like being at home, where I can be me, where I’m the happiest.
The thing I’m going to miss the most during my exchange is being at our Lapland cottage with my family. That is the place where I can relax and where my ”real home” is. I love the trips to picking up blueberries and cloudberries, walking in the woods with our dogs, listening the silence, driving a snowmobile and seeing the pure, untouched finnish nature. Many times when going to outdoor sauna I stop to stare at the evening sky with all its stars and listen to the wind. No traffic or neighbors, only the natures own sounds.
One thing that I usually notice but don’t really pay attention to is that in Finland we have many dialects. They all have their own sounds and words. Some dialects sound funny to my ear but also many says that my Lappish dialect is weird or sounds cute. I think dialects tells more specifically where we are from and that is something that we should appreciate and to be proud of.
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