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It’s easier than ever to manage without Finnish in Helsinki

23 Oct , 2018 , 21:25 Peter Seenan

It’s Friday morning. I use Google Maps in English to check which number seventy bus I’ll take from Töölö to Viikki to get me there by eight. I board the bus and present a ticket I’ve bought on Whim, a […]

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Finland shocks

21 Sep , 2018 , 23:43 Peter Seenan

I was recently asked the question, what was your biggest culture shock going to Finland for the first time? I arrived in 2011 to settle in Helsinki having lived for almost a year in Finland during my Erasmus exchange in […]

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She walked out of Tom of Finland feeling sick

18 Jun , 2018 , 22:12 Peter Seenan
male posing black and white

A couple of years ago a close friend of mine attended the Tom of Finland exhibition at Taidehalli with her colleagues. One, a married mother, left in disgust explaining that she’d been made to feel physically sick. I was reminded […]

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Peter Seenan: In praise of women

3 May , 2018 , 20:36 Peter Seenan

Integration in Finland with Akademen Not long after I arrived in Helsinki I passed an audition to get into Finland’s oldest choir, Akademiska Sångföreningen, or to give them their full English title, The Academic Male Voice Choir of Helsinki. I […]

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Peter Seenan: I found a eulogy to my grandfather written 10 years after his death

11 Apr , 2018 , 19:12 Peter Seenan
Nave of Durham Cathedral

It’s strange the feeling when the office suddenly empties. Today it was apparent at half past three. There’s the distinctive staccato of laptops being hurriedly closed in thuds and claps and then in an instant a wasteland of empty desks. […]

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