August 13-14th: Turku
I've realized that I have been seriously motivated by this blog to do things. I find myself often saying, "Gotta do this for the blog," or " I need this picture for the blog," and the best one "Gotta eat this, or drink that...for the blog." Honestly, it's been a very fulfilling last few days. I owe part of that to wanting to build content for this blog. It's really been forcing me to get myself out there and experience things in the world so that I can share about it. Earlier this week, we took a trip to Southern Finland to and visited a city called Turku. It's about 170 kilometers (~106 miles, for my American friends) from Helsinki and about 312 kilometers (~193 miles) from Stockholm. Due to it's close proximity to dense urban areas, and the University of Turku being the second largest university, there were an immense amount of English speakers. At no point did I feel out of place, or abnormal for having an English conversation. In...