SHOCKING THINGS IN FINLAND

                     FINNISH DIFFERENCES                 

 

Today I will talk about the shocking things for me in Finland, so let´s start:

 

1) Last Thursday i went to a mall at the city center, I saw that there was a conference in the first floor, i went there to have a look and try to find out what was going on. The man who made the speech was one of the ministers of Finland, I am not sure in which minister he works, but he is famous. The shoking part of it was that there was not so many cops around, just two, and everyone could participate and speak directly with the minister. In Spain that is something unbelievable, all ministers or politicians are very well protected by many cops and bodyguards, and you can´t talk to them.

 

2) One of my hobbies is swim, I have been swimming almost all my life, so I decided to buy a ten times bonus, being honest a bit expensive but I have to do some sport or I will become a hippo, anyway, I went there like two weeks ago for first time, at the entrance there was a paper with the rules of the swimming pool, I was very surprise when I read that i have to take a shower naked before go to swim. The astonished part for me was that finnish people are normally very shy, they don´t say hi to you even though they are your neightbours, but they are not shy to be naked in the shower or in the sauna, I don´t understand it. I was very embarrased being naked with people that I don´t know although they were from same sex. Another fact that surprised me too was that anyone was wearing flip flops,in my point of view that is unhygienic, you come from outside with your shoes and walk around the changing room with those while other people are not wearing any, I felt like an alien wearing my flip flops.

 

3) One key, they have only one key to open every door, from the outside door of your building to the storage room. I was sharing my apartment with another spanish when I was living in Jyväskylä and he could open the outside door, our apartment door and our storage room with just one key like me but he couldn´t open my room.What kind of witchcraft is this?