AIESEC Timisoara Exchange Blog

Finland/Brazil

Posted by: dianaciobanu on: February 13, 2009

These days I was looking at the pictures I took last summer and this winter in my garden back home and I was amazed by how the same place can be so beautiful and dreamy in such different states of existence.  ) My garden is unrecognizable in the winter after you’ve seen it in the summer…because “different” just might be similar to “another kind of beauty”.  Not all the time diversity is for the best, but here’s the good side of diversity…

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Finland/Brazil

-average temperature 7 C/average temperature 25 C

-5 million people/184 million people

- it has 2 million saunas/it is a sauna )

-if you are invited to dinner you must be punctual/if you are invited to dinner it is polite to arrive 30 minutes or an hour late

-their national ice hockey team is considered one of the best in the world/their national soccer team is considered one of the best in the world )

-extended families live apart, ussualy families are nuclear/extended families live together often all kins live in different apartments of the same building

-they mix Pegan traditions with Christian traditions for example on Easter they make bonfires to keep the witches away/the majority is strictly Christian


Hope you liked it! Next one…Jamaica!!  )

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