Honeymoon: First Impressions


When you arrive to a new country you are full of energy, you think that everything is beautiful and you believe that all that is different of your country is so interesting and so cool.

It happened to me when I arrived to Finland! Everything was so amazing and so different if you compare it with Spain. Houses are like in the films, bigs and with decorated gardens. And they don’t have fences around them! Everything about security is different here: children can go alone to school and poeple don’t have fences or courtines at home. It is so amazing!

About money, you can pay everywhere with card, and here there aren't coins of 5 cents! It is interesting. Another curious thing is that in restaurants, water is free! Here, there are a lot of common things you can use and share with another people in public places. For example, in student restaurants you can use the salt or another spices, there are for share with the rest of students!

About darkness… is so weird! But it is so cool. Everybody wear reflecting accessories because in winter there are only a few hours of light, but it is so amazing how people do their normal life with darkness. And when there is snow… is so amazing! Everything is different and brighter with snow.

And if we speak about the landscape… you can take a bus and discover a natural landscape in only few minutes. And you can find savage animals when you go for a walk! I saw two foxes and three hares near my house. Everything is perfect in Finland!








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