Happy Independence Day, my motherland Finland (Suomi) 🤍 
The festive season in London is quite dazzling and brilliant. ✨💫⚡️ 
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES "If you ever doubt, either study or travel". After travelling in seventy or eighty-something countries and living in four, I really enjoy this new more ”settled” period (I still miss travelling though). Transforming my hectic digital nomad traveller lifestyle into a book-filled post-graduate student lifestyle has been a quite change already. Still, it has definitely the best decision that I've made (although I feel a bit overwhelmed time to time with all the new concepts, theories and readings, BUT, that's the name of the game 😆). Even though I was well aware that doing a master's in one of the world's leading institutions in the international development field would be a challenge, the reality is on another level. But I've noticed that I enjoy myself the most in very challenging environments, such as when travelling and working in extraordinary places, moving to a new country or now in academia. This is where you learn the most, as every day is a learning day. ⚡️ 
Sea, sheep, shorts and sun — a few things I kinda miss this crispy Monday in London🌻🐑Luckily, I find winter isn't long in England (especially after being born and bred in Finland).🥶 
Once the world is open again, Shanghai is one of the destinations I'll get back to as soon as it's convenient. Thankfully, I was lucky enough to spend an incredible, unforgettable month here exactly a year ago. As it said, New York City might be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and that's the reason why it is one of my all-time favourite cities. 🖤🤍 
I'm so happy that we managed to make a trip to Lake District just before the Lockdown 2.0 (which isn't that bad at all this time tbh). I've wanted to visit this national park since we moved to England five years ago, and we definitely waited for five years too long. There’s just something beyond magical about the English countryside 🍁 
This weekend we’re unwinding in the national parks of the north of England 🥾⛰ @aaltoalex 🤍 
NEW BLOG POST (In Finnish, sorry) ↠ Oho, päivitin piiiiiitkästä aikaa just blogiin syksyn kuulumisia (linkki biossa). Kaikkien kuluneen vuoden karikkojen jälkeen asiat taitavat olla paremmassa jamassa kuin koskaan ehkä aiemmin? Alla muutama poiminta: ↠ Kehityshommien opiskelu ja maisterijutut ovat vieneet ihan täysillä mukanaan. Paras fiilis on se kun löytää oman polkunsa myös akateemisesti ja sitä voi toteuttaa tunnetusti yhdessä maailman johtavista yksiköistä. ↠ Lontoo. Tässä kaupungissa kaikki on vähän sinne päin, mutta just se tekee tästä maailman monipuolisimman, charmikkaimman, hauskimman ja mielenkiintoisimman paikan asua, omasta mielestä koko maailmassa. Se tunne on verraton, kun nauttii omasta kotikaupungista 120% jopa näin pimeänä lokakuuna. ↠ Palkkasin PT:n muutama kuukausi sitten ja siinä muuten paras investointi, jonka oon ikinä tehnyt! ↠ Work-life-balanssi on muutenkin nykyisin. aika hyvässä jamassa. Saa tehdä kiinnostavia ja palkitsevia juttuja hyvien tyyppien kanssa, mutta myös vapaa-aikaa on enemmän mitä aiemmin! En vaihtais pois! ↠ ↠ Blogissa vielä syvällisempää pohdintaa. Klikkaa sinne!