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”
“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”
“We said, screw it, let’s just go to Finland and see where we get from there”
Finland My Home 