Finnish family looking for friends

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MurMur
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Finnish family looking for friends

Post by MurMur » Fri Aug 15, 2014 12:11 am

Hi all!

I'm probably not the most typical member here since my family is all Finnish. We moved to the area of Leppävaara, Espoo and we don't have many friends with kids over here. Of course, new friends without kids are welcome, too!
Both of us, me and my husband, speak English fluently and sometimes we feel that we are a lot more social than average Finns :mrgreen: Signing up to this forum felt like a good idea. Let's see what happens!

We have three daughters: 10-, 4 and a 3-year-old. The oldest one studies English and Russian at school. Me and my husband are in our late 20s, we are both engineers and we are interested in music as in playing instruments (saxophone, guitar, double bass for instance), composing and singing. We are also keen on travelling, cooking, cycling, IT, board games and hiking. I'm more like the one who is going everywhere and attending many events in the downtown and hiking in the woods with the kids and a tent, whereas my husband feels more comfortable around his computer programming and composing.

We'd be happy to invite people for a dinner or hang out at a playground. We are also happy to help recently moved people with some basic running things or help with learning Finnish language.

Our kids are used to people who don't speak Finnish. Only the 3-year-old might be a bit shy at first :)

Feel free to send me a message if you got interested. I hope to hear from you soon :)



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ram316
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Re: Finnish family looking for friends

Post by ram316 » Thu Aug 21, 2014 10:32 am

Good to see your post!
Hope you already have few friends, we are interested to be but I am right now in Helsinki, may be we can find some time for family hangout sometime in next month.
We are interested to more social contacts.
Me and my wife are in mid 20's, newly married.
Take care!

sweta.koski
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Re: Finnish family looking for friends

Post by sweta.koski » Wed Aug 27, 2014 2:02 pm

Hi there. Feel free to contact me :ochesey:
I live in Kerava with my husband. We got married last year and don't have any plans for children yet. I take care of friend's kids once in a while when I have free time. We both are working in social field and do lot of sports. If you are planning to come to Kerava then let me know. By the way, I'm from Nepal and my husband is Finnish. I love meeting new people :D

Kaisa555
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Re: Finnish family looking for friends

Post by Kaisa555 » Sat Sep 27, 2014 7:08 am

We have also moved in to Finland lately, about a year ago:) Nice to meet new friends!

MurMur
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Re: Finnish family looking for friends

Post by MurMur » Mon Sep 29, 2014 12:30 am

Hi all!

Nice to see all these messages here :) I already got a private message too but it seems that I'm unable to answer that because I'm so new here. :cry: I really would like to contact you all three. Maybe you could send me your e-mail address to my inbox? (I can read them but not write back, haha)

Anyway, I was thinking about why not to have a meet-up at some park or a cafe or some other nice place?
It's getting quite cold though. Any ideas?

Amigerm
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Re: Finnish family looking for friends

Post by Amigerm » Thu Oct 30, 2014 4:10 am

Hello murmur,

We are an American/German family with a 10-year old boy. We will move to Finland next year. I would love to already make some friends before we actually get there. I have so many questions and we are not sure, what area to search in that is know for great school for foreigners, great family life and an abundance of hobby offers.

We also, love to make music. I sing, play piano, while our son plays the drums and sings as well. My husband loves music and is literally a walking music encyclopedia. We love to travel, having fun experiencing other cultures and of course the classic - American BBQ's. :D

Please let me know, if you are interested. We could exchange private emails and go from there......

hugs,

MurMur
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Re: Finnish family looking for friends

Post by MurMur » Tue Nov 04, 2014 3:44 pm

Hey Amigerm!

I just returned from the States. I spent about 3 weeks in the Bay Area :)
It seems that you guys could be a perfect match for us, haha. I'd love to exchange e-mails!

Everyone, feel free writing me an e-mail to [email protected]

For some reason I still can't write any private messages here :roll:

greyshift
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Re: Finnish family looking for friends

Post by greyshift » Mon Dec 15, 2014 8:14 am

Hi Finnish Family looking for friends :) My son and I are planning to move to Helsinki for school next August and are looking for some friendly Fins to teach us a little about the place. Sage (my son) is 6 and will be 7 before the next school year starts. I'm really looking forward to having him participate in the world famous Finnish education system. I'll be studying math and/or physics at the University of Helsinki, so, as you are engineers, I think we could find a topic or two we could connect on :) Anyways, take care and enjoy your awesome country! Let me know if you want an email address so maybe we can be pen pals :)

Kevin

P.S. We are hoping to visit in February so that Sage can take the English test for Ressun Peruskoulu. If you like, have a look at our fundraiser here: http://www.gofundme.com/ivxcsc

yashu83
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Re: Finnish family looking for friends

Post by yashu83 » Tue Jan 13, 2015 2:17 pm

Hi MurMur and others,
Loved to read the posts. My husband and I are both Indians and very eager to meet new friends. I've been living in Finland from 7 years, but unfortunately I do not know much Finnish. I had some great Finnish friends in Tampere, since the time I moved to Helsinki, not many friends to socialise. If this post is not old and you guys are meeting and organising, please let me know. I can make some lovely Indian food :)

Eager to hear from you!

Best,
Yashu

eva.cross
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Re: Finnish family looking for friends

Post by eva.cross » Wed Dec 07, 2016 7:12 pm

I am looking for a family, which would like to visit the Czech Republic and, in turn, has provided accommodation to our family during a visit Finland. We are able to accommodate a family in our house in South Moravia, give food, make tourist trips around the Czech Republic and in Prague. I'm 42 years old, my husband is 43 years old and sons 13 and 12 years. [email protected]

Best, Eva Křížová

Dan3
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Re: Finnish family looking for friends

Post by Dan3 » Sun Jan 15, 2017 5:02 pm

Hi MurMur! We are a Russian family in our mid-thirties, our kid is 5. We'd love to hang out with you =)


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