“The first person I came out to was the director of my dance college in Finland”
“Finnish companies can benefit a lot from foreigners”
“Finland is probably the only place in the world where being a geek is cool”
“I think it’s much easier being gay here than in the United States”
“An important part of being Baha’i is to be at service for your community”
“The heroes in Finland are completely different from what we have”
“I know that at the nursing home there is someone who needs my help”
“For me home is now Espoo and England is a place I very much like to visit”
“I came to Finland because I wanted to learn Finnish”
“I don’t remember thinking ‘I’m in a refugee camp’, I was just a child”
I still struggle between frustration with Finland and knowing there are so many good things
“Sometimes I default to Swedish when I try to ask for something in a shop”
“I’ve been here almost 20 years, but no way do I consider myself Finnish”
“I felt guilty that I had let so much of my Englishness slip”
“I studied Finnish for 2-3 years and then I applied to the Lahti tourist board”
“It was very profound and touching to speak in Finnish to my grandfather”
Finland My Home 