Boreal Expat

Random thoughts of an American in Finland

Friday, July 14, 2017

Ron and Betsy Work It Out

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A lot of people have been claiming that the meeting Donald Trump Jr. had with a Russian lawyer who was offering damaging information on Hi...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Japanese Characters

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Something that greatly surprised me on our trip to Japan was how little knowledge of English there is the country. Now, I realize that mak...
Friday, July 7, 2017

Falling Drops Earth Moves

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I recently made a trip to Japan with my wife and grown kids, the first time we have been on holiday together since a trip to Paris in 2010....
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Trumpcare Obscenity

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Last week occurred one of the most shameful episodes in US politics. Even more troubling than the precipitous firing of an FBI director in ...
Monday, April 24, 2017

Language Learning, Or Not So Much

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I can’t say I have a head for learning languages. Not by a long shot. That’s unfortunate, since I ended up in a situation where being a fu...
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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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