[Shari28088]

I think many Americans have the idea that Finland (if they even know where it is) is like Canada - snow-covered year-round (which is, of course, wrong about both countries). I am part Finnish, and while I have never been there, my parents have done genealogy research there, and I have e-mailed a distant cousin in Tuusula. I know you have lots of mosquitoes in the summer (at least where my cousin lives), and that your summers are not as long or as warm as ours. In school, Finland was not a country that we learned about or heard much about. (That is rather interesting, since I live in Michigan. The Upper Peninsula is full of Finns). It's not a place that many people here dream of visiting, unless we're part Finn. People just think 'Scandinavia' and imagine snow and reindeer. That may be true for a part of Finland, but certainly not the whole country.

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Name : Shari28088, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Lutheran, Age : 29, City : Canton, State : MI Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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