Why moving to a small town in the Netherlands was the best decision for a while

Why moving to a small town in the Netherlands was the best decision for a while

"I will never move anywhere smaller than Helsinki." I can still hear myself say that sentence no longer than a year ago. Yup, a city girl through and through, giant metropoles always make my heart skip a beat and city holidays win against beaches anytime. Helsinki already felt a bit too small at times, and [...]

Life update

Life update

Hi. What's up? For me, a lot of things. So I'm writing this update about what's ahead for me and how that's going to affect what I do here. First, the biggest new is I'm moving to the Netherlands to do a MA in Media Studies, majoring in Social Media and Society at the Rijksuniversiteit [...]

2018 in numbers

2018 in numbers

20 Flights 71 Hours on the plane 10 Countries 97 Days abroad 63 ECTS credits 5 Different jobs 4 Different homes Countless memories and smiles, and a few tears as well Needless to say, this year has been really productive for me in many ways. In terms of studies, I have handed out my bachelor's [...]

Le métro

Le métro

If there's one thing you learn to use (and to hate) very fast when moving to Paris, it's the famous métro. "Métro, boulot, dodo" (a French expression describing the Parisian lifestyle, that translates to "metro, work, sleep") becomes very real, and it also becomes very obvious that it is the reality of millions of other [...]