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Writer's Block: Globetrotting
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Finland. Not that I don't love Canada, but I'd like to see Finland, and I understand that most people there speak enough English to take pity on a poor traveler whose entire Finnish vocabulary consists of "Olen pahoillani, mutta olen amerikkalainen". (I am told this means 'I am very sorry, I am only an American'. Or close enough to that meaning that it generally makes Finns I meet online laugh and be reasonably friendly towards me.)
Finland. Not that I don't love Canada, but I'd like to see Finland, and I understand that most people there speak enough English to take pity on a poor traveler whose entire Finnish vocabulary consists of "Olen pahoillani, mutta olen amerikkalainen". (I am told this means 'I am very sorry, I am only an American'. Or close enough to that meaning that it generally makes Finns I meet online laugh and be reasonably friendly towards me.)