My experience with the Finnish culture:
• Since last Sunday the weather was quite modest. It was always cloudy, the clouds hung low, made it ever seem as though it were the same snow, the maximum temperature this week was +3 ° C (wow!) (but mostly around zero degrees or less ...). I was tired and the mood in the college was partly provoked. On Thursday came the salvation for all: the sun! Das Gesprächsthema Nr. 1! (The people are eagerly awaiting the spring, which will still leave something coming. Late April and early May you can expect the full spring.) While it was still icy cold and windy, but the people woke up and were more relaxed! I feel this effect was no longer as confident as here! On Friday it was then cloudy again, but it still drew energy from the previous day. On Saturday (as I have already described yesterday) has the sun again prevailed over the clouds and continues today. But for the moment ... but draw clouds on my morning walk was under a blue sky :-)
• Approx. 70% of Finnish people have blue eyes and blonde hair (including all possible shades of blonde tone). All others have brown or black hair with blue or other color eyes. These people however, are usually not Finnish or have a parent who is not a native of Finland.
• The coach - a chapter in itself ;-) My experience is that the bus drivers like crazy on the motorway and then slow down abruptly when someone waving from the bus stop. The amazing thing about the bus stops is that they are usually hidden behind a sound barrier! Ie, only when you close to the bus stop, you can see if someone is waving. Then of course a very strong braking her! There is real important to be at the Presidency shares to avoid being thrown from it. I tried to capture the times in a video. I know not whether the scene works so well:
I also get the morning regular panic attacks when five to six buses arrive simultaneously fed to my bus stop and I must recognize whether my bus is also below and then also the right bus waving need so that this continues! Unfortunately I have been unable so far to take a photo of it, since I too am employing in order to get my bus ...
• In Helsinki, and then probably anywhere else in Finland, there are skyscrapers, as we know from our cities (know where we also do not have as high in Compared to some Asian and American cities ...). So far I've found as the highest by a nine-story apartment building. This has already become a sport for me to count in the new districts or places the floors of a house ;-)
• The Finns love to be out there to move actively. It is seen in parks specifically for people who can dogs with strollers, with kids in the snow while walking, jogging or Nordic walking with sticks. You will also find it really great, over frozen lakes, rivers or the sea to run, even if the ice melts on the banks know ... especially love them, but cross-country skiing - even on the smallest of parking spaces! Some colleagues told me that they go to school or during school time with their classes, or right after school to go skiing. Cross-country skiing on weekends is a must for many colleagues! From my window I can observe this activity in the park is always very good!
• The Finns also love licorice in all variations! As the newest invention, the combination of chocolate and liquorice filling was put on the market (which it has done to me - I love licorice and chocolate and now even 2 in 1 - !!!)! great
• The ship calls and SMS in Finland with Finnish mobile phone cards incredibly cheap - that's probably the only effective, I've found so far in comparison to Germany! Send a text message costs 7 cents, to Germany, call one minutes and costs 4 cents! Unbelievable! Most people in Finland have one or more of Nokia phones ...
• Many Finns wearing glasses, often by D & G ...
• The zebra crossing is usually the ornament of the road and not as an indication for the cars and buses, to slow down and to watch out for, whether pedestrians wanting to cross the street. So be careful at crosswalks! The cars hold in most cases not start!
• In the city there are few bicycle riders. Whether this is due to the weather, I will continue . Watch
• I do not know if I am wrong, but I have the impression that there are not many post boxes in Helsinki and surrounding areas. It took a long time until I found a letter box in my area and could send some postcards from there. In the center, I am pleased every time I see an orange box, because it somehow so few ...
• In Finland in grocery stores, kiosks, etc. to buy any alcohol other than cheap beer and soft drinks. may "alcohol" is selling the only chain in Finland, the alcohol. It has the monopoly in this field and is also independent from the state. The state can not decide on the alcohol tax. In this respect shall "alcohol" itself fixed prices. Alcohol in Finland is exceptionally expensive. Maybe this is a statement that the ship sailing to Tallinn as famous and notorious for binge drinking are ...
• Many Finns are ashamed of this "drinking vessel tours" of their countrymen. There are even extra ships flying 24 hours over the sea ...
• In Finland, no 1 and 2 cent coins are used. It does not exist and you can also get it anywhere here. At a price of for example € 3.99 you pay automatically 4 €. It returns a cent. Since my stay here I have actually no 1 and 2 cents more in the wallet.
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