Tag: Immigrants in Finland
“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’ve learned that getting where you want to be is a life-long struggle”
“I fell in love with Finland because I tried to find the ‘Finnish thing’ – like ice swimming”
“The first person I came out to was the director of my dance college in Finland”
“As a migrant in Finland you have to be 2-3 times better than your native competitors”
“I talk with the customers in Finnish, but once they hear I’m not Finnish they switch to English”
