It’s been great recreating ourselves to fit into the Finnish culture. My mom and I have been going on long walks and a couple of days ago, stumbled upon this really cute, homey coffee shop that we later brought the boys to so we could all enjoy live music by a three-person local band that was playing. It was very merry and comfortable to snuggle into a deep couch in the corner of the shop, and listen to the accents of the singers perform American songs from the 80’s.
We don’t have a car, so it would seem we walk everywhere we go -no matter how far truly- out of necessity. But really, we wouldn’t want to travel any other way. We have to walk across town to get groceries and not think twice about it. Mom and I were laughing earlier about how we would drive down to Costco back home, which was only down the road. We hope to bring this more natural, simpler, and healthier way of going about to CA, even though it’s harder because the towns are built in a really spread out way that’s really meant for cars. If you look at the streets here in Jyvaskyla, you would notice that the sidewalks are the same size as the road which is completely foreign to us because sometimes roads back home don’t even have sidewalks.
In all, I’ve really been enjoying my time here.
