Und weil es so schön war, gleich noch ein paar mehr Gründe...
You don't think twice about putting the wet dishes away in the cupboard to dry.
A friend asks about your holiday plans and you answer "Oh, I'm going to Europe!" meaning any other Western European country outside Scandinavia.
The reason you take the ferry to Stockholm or Tallinn is:
a. duty free vodka
b. duty free beer
c. to party heartily...no need to get off the boat in Stockholm or Tallinn, just turn around and do it again on the way back to Finland.
Your coffee consumption exceeds 6 cups a day and coffee is too weak if there is less than two spoonfuls per person.
Your native language has seriously deteriorated, now you begin to "eat medicine", "open the television", "close the lights off", and tell someone "you needen't to!" Expressions like "Don't panic" creep into your everyday language.
Your notion of street life is reduced to the few teenagers hanging out in front of the railway station on Friday nights.
Sundays no longer seem dull with all the stores closed, and begin to feel restful instead.
You finally stop asking your class "Are there any questions?"
Your old habit of being "Fashionably late" is no longer acceptable. You are always on time.
You hear loud-talking passengers on the train. You immediately assume:
a. they are drunk
b. the are Swedish-speaking
c. they are Americans
d. all of the above.
You have undergone a transformation:
a. you accept mustamakkara (Black blood sausage) as food
b. you accept alcohol as food
c. you accept.
You understand why the Finnish language has no future tense.
You no longer have to search for the flushing mechanism.
You no longer see any problem wearing white socks with loafers.
You just love Jaffa.
You've come to expect Sunday morning sidewalk vomit dodging.
You know that "religious holiday" means "let's get pissed."
You've become lactose intolerant.
"No comment" becomes a conversation strategy.
You can't understand why people live anywhere but in Finland.
