| This is dinner at my place. Left to right are Anna, Sam, Christiane, and Paul. | |
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Here we are making Christmas cookies. They lasted for about three weeks, I think, and that's after we ate a good portion of them on the same night that we made them. Left to right in this picture are Romuald, Juana, Lindsey, Christiane, and Paul. |
| Romuald and Lindsey were elected to decorate, once we discovered their artistic abilities at cutting dough. |  |
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Here are a bunch of internationals on the second floor of Tervasoihtu on a Tuesday night. The happy bunch in the center are the Italians. |
| Juana and Lindsey became two of my best friends in Finland. Juana, from Peru and Spain, was my flatmate. Lindsey, from Minnesota, was one of the first people I met on the first day of orientation. We spent many an hour having very in depth conversations about heavy subjects. Here, Juana and Lindsey are enjoying an evening at Tervasoihtu. |  |
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Aren't we cute? (A: Yes.) In case you couldn't tell, that's me, Juana, and Lindsey at (you guessed it) Tervasoihtu. |
| This is the last one at Tervasoihtu, I promise. That's Romuald messing with his camera, and Juana and I are smiling for whoever is taking the picture (Jason, I think). |  |