Entry#2

Hello you all! I just came back from a 3 day journey inside Finland for the association. It turned out to be more a sightseeing expedition than work since we had a lot of traveling around to do. We were 4 in a car and we were supposed to go to the 3 smaller offices in Tampere, Pori and Turku in order to “co-ordinate the different bases and make a general report on the state of our social aid network”. Aka, have a great road trip in the beautiful sceneries of Finland :D. It was really great, mostly because Audrey, Aleksi and Sakke are great guys. Luckily enough, they speak English perfectly. I tried to learn finish but it’s just impossible… They have incredibly long words since you are supposed to add suffixes and prefixes to a word until it means what you want it to means and that can create ridiculously long words that would be a full sentence in English. I’m trying to learn to speak Finnish anyway but I’m not expecting great results… More news soon!

Here's a map of the journey we made inside Finland. You have to picture this all white instead of green but I couldn't find any satellite map in winter on the internet.

A view of Tampere. The city is surrounded by a lot of lakes, and there's this half-frozen river that cuts the town in two, it's quite a magnificent sight.

This beautiful mausoleum was built just over a century ago and its one of Pori's most beautiful construction.

There was a heavy snowfall just before we got to Turku. I took this picture in a semi-abandoned zone of the city. It's amazing how everywhere you go in Finland there's always a river or a lake nearby.