Smile Ye Fin(e)land

[lauwo-the-poet]

True. But I am suspecting that you are still in the honeymoon period, and you will be more negative later.

Be aware that the honeymoon period was over for me, and I will tell you how horrible my honeymoon period in Finland was. For 8 good months I stayed without "friends", no TV, no Computer or 24hrs internet. No social life for me though almost everybody around me was socialising. Come weekend I go to a club or pub there is no one to talk to or hang around with. Trying to break into Finnish people's social circle in terms of befriending them was like attempting to cut through a cash safe vault with a kitchen knife. But If I only dwell on being negative, whine and complain about all this it will do me no good. I'd rather try to figure out the nitty gritty of the whole Finnish silence-distance concept, and then i will stand a better chance to be able to deal with it.

[lauwo-the-poet]

Since you asked for an opinion - and now don't be offended - your poem seemed more than a bit laboured, syrupy and embarrassing to me. "Cuteness of your culture"?

I dont write to please any one, and I dont expect everybody to agree with what I am writing about, so i dont get offended by any kind of opinion on my work, always appreciate. The majority of Finnish people's social attitude is weird, and this is what contribute the cross section of the Finnish culture. This weirdness, which makes it "unique" is what I have termed as "cuteness" come on Finns like any other people in the world are proud of what they are and what they have - culture, beautiful nature-full country, civilisation etc all these goes into what culture of a people is.

[skandagupta]

"..But If I only dwell on being negative, whine and complain about all this it will do me no good. I'd rather try to figure out the nitty gritty of the whole Finnish silence-distance concept.."

Forsooth,right you are and i aint on chemicals either


typo