Not only Japanese people remove their shoes when they walk into a home: Finnish people do so too. To everyone who isn’t used to remove their shoes at the entrances of the houses – like me – this is quite shocking. I went to Finland at the end of a summer, and it was then when I learned about this tradition. I must admit that…
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The Finnish education system is regarded as one of the best in the world, and having lived there as a student, it comes as no surprise to me. Most of the interest in the country’s education system is sparked by the impressive results from Finnish primary school students, and in this post we’ll interview a Finnish teacher: my good friend Aila. When I was living…
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Pyryttää and tuiskuttaa are both verbs and mean snowing.
I am American, but I live in Estonia, and I agree with you: Estonia is solidly Nordic. I tell everyone…
the picture of a tar "candy bar" is actaully a box of tar candies
Not true. These human figures have teeth, which are actually dentures, that Rönkkönen got from a local dentist and later…
"for no particular reason" yea, sure