Contrary to popular belief, we did actually come to Canada for work! So first off, let me start by sharing some fantastic news – Joonas is now the newest, full-time employee of a small, local acoustics company! Getting to this point was a bit of an uphill struggle but fortunately all of his hard work […]

So I had promised people that the next post I would do would be about work over here, because alot of you have asked whether I’m actually doing the thing we came over here to do. Once I have more time, I will write a post about work and try to convince you all that […]

Meet Molli! She is the newest (and possibly cutest) member of our little family.  On the way home in a diaper box:   Second day, she still seemed calm and innocent and slept in one of our laps all day:   She’s getting used to us now and follows us to wherever we’re sitting so […]

We’ve now had our first visitors here in Canada! My parents arrived two and a half weeks ago and left last night. It was a lot of fun having them here and it was sad to see them go yesterday, but I’m sure they will be back! For the first week of their visit, I […]

After alot of back and forth with the bank and the car dealership we were finally able to get a car here in Canda. Although even after all these calls and emails, neither the bank nor the car dealership were of any use to us financially so we had to rely on other forms of […]

Kuten varmaan edellisistä blogeista on ollut luettavissa, isäntäperheestä on tullut hyviä ystäviämme. Nyt kun vielä saatiin perheen isäkin reissusta kotiin, tuumittiin ettei kummallakaan taholla ei ollut perjantaille juurikaan tekemistä, joten päätimme alkuviikosta tehdä perjantaina yhdessä ruokaa. Talon isäntä tekee kotoa töitä, ja ilmeisesti perjantaina puolen päivään aikaan alkoi työnteko hänen puolesta riittämään. Olin juomassa lounaskahvia […]

Wow, it’s been ages since I’ve had the chance to write anything and quite a bit has happened since last time! On July 11th I officially started working at McMaster and so far it’s been good! I have to say that getting off to a start has been challenging but I guess that’s the way […]

Ennen muuttoa meitä varoiteltiin siitä, että tämän maanosan omituinen suhtautuminen varallisuuteen saattaa estää meitä niin sanotusti pääsemästä alkuun. Koitan avata aihetta sen verran kuin sitä itse olen itse ymmärtävinäni.  Osa 1. Valivalivali… Täällä päin varallisuutta ei niinkään mitata kysymyksellä ”kuin paljon nousee?” – tililtä rahaa siis, vaan varallisuutta mitataan niin sanotuilla ”luottopisteillä” määrällä Joka käytännössä […]

Bugi has two new friends! Bullet, the husky/german shephard mix in the middle, is from next door and comes over to play through a hole that has been cut into the fence between ours and the neigbours properties solely for this purpose and Ziggy, the labradoodle, is from downstairs. They are both crazy cute and […]

We’ve been here now for 9 days and so far it’s been excellent! I started work this week, which has been really fun. I still haven’t got my ID or access cards sorted but hopefully I’ll get that all figured out by the end of the week. Our group works at the chemical engineering department […]