I Survived A Year in Finland

I survived a year in Finland despite:

living in a 3-bedroomed apartment with a 6-person family

sharing a room with my sisters

living without a car

being without a dishwasher

being without my American buddies

not having twizzlers

not having a clothes dryer

having a broken hair dryer

not being able to go to a library full of books in English

having to put layers and layers on to keep me alive in the -4F temperatures in the winter

living with my crazy family

I survived a year in Finland because:

I had Pihla

Jenni

Serina

Milla

Saku

Annu

Jyväskylä youth,

because of many hilarious conversations with Katie,

skyping with:

Hannah

Emilie

Kimmi

because for christmas I received packages from

Lexie,

Hannah,

and the young women of Athens,

because I had the gospel,

the scriptures,

the urge to try to better myself this year, and was helped by the examples of: the young women leaders of Jyväskylä, the young women of Jyväskylä, my friends at school, my español amigas

because I knew that at the end of the year, I would be able to go home, with new experiences, new friends made, and a better understanding of things that I needed to learn.

Thank you everyone for being supportive during this year, especially when I wasn't so willing to see the positives in this year. :)