I want to tell you something about Finland and Finnishness. I tell the things what is important for me and what is the main things being finnish.
FINLAND – My home country
Finland is country where is lot of trees and lakes. We are little country between Sweden and Russia. Also our close country is Norway. We are very good at winter sports like skiing and ice hockey. Finland is beautiful country for my eyes at least. I love that we have good education here and our civilization is very high level. I think. We can speak many languages and we actually nice people. Even though many people seems to think we are shy and angry all the time but we are not. We just need more time to get know new people. And when we have had enough time we are very nice people. For this moment i need to say that i am very social person and i love to get to know new people. It’s not an difficult for me. 🙂 We have short summer and long winter. Which is not nice for me because i love the warm weather and sunshine. And i think that also the other Finnish people agree with me on this one. We would love to have longer summer here. Our nature is beautiful and especially in the summer i love to walk in the woods and just smell the nature. Here is fresh air and we can breathe good.
SAUNA – The one place i totally love
So we have Sauna here and finnish people totally love to go to Sauna. It is warm place where you can sit down and enjoy the warmth. There you can also throw water to the sauna stones what makes the warm in the sauna. You can also put some scent in the water what you throw to the sauna stones. It gets nice smell there. Sauna can be big or small and usually there is lot of people at the same time but you can also go there alone if you want. In the sauna we are naked. It’s a normal thing for us. But i have notice that people outside the Finland is not so easy to go to Sauna naked. And it is okey, we have just use to it. In the sauna you can also use bath whisk what has made in tree branches. First it hurts a little not so much but when you have do that few times it feels very good. And it also gives smell in the sauna. Most common temperature in sauna is like 80 degrees. Which is warm but nice. If the temperature goes higher than that it’s not nice to be in the sauna. I like when the temperature is between 70 to 80 degrees. Then it is nice. And also we can have sauna in our own apartment here. But then it is higher rent if you have own sauna in your apartment. I would love to have sauna in my apartment.
CULTURE – lot of things what we have
Okey so when somebody asks me something about our culture i’m not sure what to answer because we have lot of things our culture what we do. So now i decide that i write here few things about our culture.
We love to spend Christmas with our families and it is big thing for us and Finnish people always wait the Christmas to come. In Christmas eve we go to the cemetery and put the candles our loved ones graves. It is the way to remember those who are not here an
ymore. We also eat lot off food in Christmas time and open the presents. Our Christmas eve is 24th of December.
Then we have Independence Day here, what means a lot of Finnish people. In that day we watch on TV where comes Presidential celebration reception. There is lot of celebrities but also people who are important to Finnish people like the people who had have in the war. And they also eat and dance there and reporters interview some people there. It is actually nice to watch. The people who goes there have nice dresses and suits and it is funny to criticize those outfits with your friends.
We eat here salmiakki, what is black little salted candy. And it is very good. But the people who are outside of Finland don’t like this candy so much. I like it but don’t eat so often. We have here also rye bread which is very good and healthy. Rye bread is the most common thing what Finnish people asks to bring if they live somewhere else than Finland because they have use to eat this bread when they are lived in Finland. 
And we don’t have Thanksgiving day here. And also the Halloween is not so big thing for us here. What it is some other countries.
Okey, so lot of people think that we drink lot of alcohol here in Finland. Yes we do but actually not so much than any other country. It is our way to celebrate for example someone’s birthday. And when we drink alcohol we are not so shy anymore and may do the stupid things. But i don’t want that people knows about Finnish people only for that thing because we are nice and smart people. And we have nice country. Here in Finland we can speak different languages because of good education and these things i want to people know us. And also that we are good at sports.
And we don’t have one specific cultural food here. We have lot of different foods what we eat in different times. Like Christmas we have different foods than we have “normal” life.
LANGUAGE – My mother language
Our language is hard to learn and understand for those who’s not born here or lived here very long time. We have so many words what means the same thing and i think that is the most difficult thing to learn and also the pronunciation is difficult to learn. Some word are difficult for Finnish people also and we lived here our hole life. Our language is second hard language in the world, i think. I have tried to teach Finnish some of my friends who are outside of Finland. And i have notice that it is hard for them. We have also letters Ä,Ö here which are difficult for many people because there is lot of languages where is not those letters.
I want to believe that here in Finland we can speak English and Swedish very well. Because we learn those languages in the school. And for me the English is more easier than the Swedish even though it supposed to be my second language. I feel like English is more my second language than Swedish. And i love to speak English a lot.
Here is my topics to Finland and Finnishness. Hope this gives some idea who we are and what kind of is our country. It was hard to write only few things because there is lot of things i would like to tell/write. But i’m happy for this what i have written.
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