Please enjoy the fruits of our labor.



This 28 second video took 4 hours (of drawing) to create, and will probably be the cause for early onset arthritis in my right hand! Please enjoy my super Finnish-speaking skills, as well as my ultra sexy pitch shifted voice. Most importantly, enjoy Robert's music- its really something.

Aside from that, we have finally purchased our return tickets for the United States. It's a terrible reality, but it had to be done. We are leaving from Barcelona, Spain on June 30th with a three hour layover in Geneva, Switzerland, and arriving at Dulles Airport on the first of July. In better news, our tickets were amazingly priced! Among pages and pages of $1,200-$2,600.00 tickets we found ours, at $600!!

Our time in Finland is rapidly coming to an end, which makes me terribly sad. I'm not ready to leave all of the amazing people we've met and our comfortable little home. I am excited about our travels to come, though. We are going to see so many amazing countries, and that more than makes it worth it.

We are leaving on the 4th of May for Scotland and returning on the 11th. Upon returning we will pack up all of our belongings, then leave for a week and a half stay in Poland. From Poland we are flying to Barcelona, Spain.. and from there.. we'll see!

I've finished all of my classes except my Greek Mythology course, which is every other Monday. This past week has been very hectic and worrisome, as I have been frantically studying for my Finnish exams. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that I did well.

We are planning a short weekend trip to the Finnish island of Mariehamn, it's a few hour trip on the ferry from Turku.



I wanted to share some images of the Finnish cartoon series, Moominland. I had the opportunity to read Moonminland Mid-Winter in my Finnish literature course and I thought that it was a beautifully written and illustrated book.






The author, Tove Jansson, was a really interesting and beautiful person.


She wrote the first Moominland book during the Winter War in Finland. Tove created the story out of an apparent desire to see a safe, nurturing and innocent world (whether fictional, or real). Many of the Moomin books tackle tough topics that arise in such cold and dark climates as the Finnish winter; which makes the stories enjoyable for adults as well as children.

Anyways, I am off to nap and fret about my test scores.