Finnish Chronicles

I moved to Finland in mid-March this year (2016) with a new design job in a Finnish social impact company. Started this blog 5 month in, after I moved here, as a way to understand what i am feeling and internalise this amazing new and unique life experiences!

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Night of the Art, Helsinki: <Helsinki Senate Square>

Lovely sunny Helsinki all decorated with beautiful art work by various artists for the Night of the Art event!!   

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The invisible queue

The concept of queuing up is quite common in many countries. And I am quite aware of this phenomena, since I moved to Helsinki from UK. Anyone who has been living in London, knows we queue up for everything. The main diff between a Finnish style of queuing and British/ any other country specific style of queuing is that the former one is completely invisible. They are for some reason quite aware of who came at what time but there ain’t any major line up. Take for an example of bus-stop, they are all scattered everywhere but somehow you remember who all were there before you arrived and hence you let those people go first and then you come in....   It is completely invisible but very diligent. They follow the system and if you don’t understand/follow the unsaid rule then they might quietly get offended, but at the same time are way too polite to say it out loud!!

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Helsinki, oh so very pretty on a sunny day!!! My new home! :)

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Starting my Finnish diary..

So why am I writing a blog now? 

I moved to Finland in mid-March this year (2016) with a new design job in a Finnish social impact company (with time i will explain my job, what is a social impact company working in a Finnish design firm etc). So I am living here for about 5 months now in Finland and so far it has amazed me, surprised me, questioned my true believes, made think and re-evaluate several times who i am and what I really want, excited me, shocked me and may be driving me to live in a certain way, which I am still not sure if I love or just doing for the sake of fitting in.  

Of course everyone knows Nordic culture is different and new and their lifestyle and values are quite different from other countries. So to internalise and also relook at these experiences later in time, I thought why not share my experiences through a blog. So it might be wee bit biased and subjective !!! 

About me: I am a designer, trained in London and originally from India.