a month to go

I don't really know how to start. I had all these great plans about how I'll make a blog about my exchange and how it'll be so cool and yay. I have spent the last two hours fiddling with the designs, colours, and fonts, and now I don't know how to start.

Often, I think it's a bit pretentious when Finns write in English, but I know that there will be non-Finnish-speaking people reading this - and I trust my Finns to be able to understand me. Besides, I'm afraid I'm just too lazy to a) make two blogs b) translate everything I say into one language or another.

Which is a bit embarrassing, since translation is my major. 

But really, what I'll probably end up doing is write a post in one language and maybe write a small summary in the other. Depending on the mood I happen to be in. 

Anyway, I finally got round to creating this blog that was prying on my mind for months, and what a better day to start it - today it will be exactly one month until I'm set to leave my homeland for Great Unknown Britain. I'm going to be studying English for two semesters at the University of Sheffield. 

Not sure why the map wants to show these places exactly, but hey! We like clarity, don't we? 

I'm under the impression that Sheffield is around the same size as Helsinki population-wise and (according to some statistics) the fifth largest UK city by population. Also, it has more trees per person than any other city in Europe (says Wikipedia)! 

I'm looking forward to my exchange year and all the experience it will give me. It's a bit scary leaving home, and I think I will be homesick at first, but I hope I will get used to and enjoy it soon. 

Let the countdown begin!