Boreal Expat

Random thoughts of an American in Finland

Friday, August 17, 2012

The Olympics

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The Olympic Games in London are over, and so is our two-week stretch of staying up late every night to watch the competitions. Finland end...
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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Stalin's Kudzu

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Being from the southern US, I am all too familiar with a sight you often see traveling through Dixie – places where a single type of veg...
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Tiny Seeds of Summer

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In the last week or so, another little sign of seasonal change has been in the air. Literally. It’s hard to miss the flecks of brown stuff f...
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Monday, August 6, 2012

Another acceptable loss?

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Sixteen days. That’s how much time has elapsed between the mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, which left 12 moviegoers dead, and the next ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Old Spice Tales

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Aftershave in a classic "buoy" shape. I hesitate to admit the following, because – despite heroic attempts at self-delusi...
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Kent Tankersley
I’m an expatriate American living in Finland, where to my utter surprise, I’ve somehow spent half of the fifty-odd years of my life, so far. Time does have a way of sneaking up on you. As an American and long-time resident in a foreign land, I often feel pulled between two worlds, no longer completely familiar with the land of my birth after so many years and yet not always a full-fledged member of the society where I’ve made my home. Call it the dilemma of the expat. You gain new experiences when you stray far from home and broaden your horizons, but you lose something as well. Finland, an unassuming country on the fringes of Western Europe, is not the most obvious place for someone from a tiny town in North Georgia to find themselves. How the hell did I get here? And why do I stay?
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