I have not been here for some time. It is quiet now here. Just would like to chat with people.
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We had the opening of the Christmas street yesterday, more people than usually, it was nice to ride my bicycle.
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Hi mjseu, are you the American guy from Norway?
No, I am a Finn who spent many years (13 years) in America. I could have become the US citizen, but I never returned the citizenship applications.
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I am Australian born german. I don’t want to go anywhere, i don’t even have a passport. I got two citizenships. How you have been treated coming back to finnland?
I do not have a passport either, in my younger years I travelled a lot, 35 different countries and 35 different US states, sometimes I would like to travel somewhere, maybe Tallin in Estonia, I should get a passport, within the EU, the EU ID card is okay too.
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Seems you are settled now. A friend of mine travels a lot. I ask people to bring me a liitle rock from the county they visited.
I have not had any problems after I returned to Finland, I came back in 2002 after spending over two years in my auto in America after I went through a divorce. People here like to speak in English, even cashiers at grocery store speak some English, yesterday there was an American man at the store and a female who worked at the store was able to communicate with him.
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It feels good when i have an opportunity to speak with German Tourists. Its the time of the year again. I can travel everwhere with an Australian ID card.
I suppose you speak German, in the past I tried to study German, Russian is more useful here because we are so close to the border.
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Can you travel to different nations with the Australian ID card?
I heard german is good for engineering books. I find European languages are richer in words as English.
When I was in America I was able to travel anywhere with the US driver’s licence, I had the US Green Card but very rarely it was asked, maybe just once one person asked me to show my Green Card. I had the driver’s license both from Georgia and Florida.
I think a lot of formal rules changed since your last visit. I don’t know, just what i saw on reality tv shows
You are probably right, many things have changed since 911. I think that the 1990’s, the decade, was good in the US. Back in 1999 I was on the cruise to Bahamas with some people and there was a young girl from Columbia whose the US Green Card was expired and the immigration official just told her to renew her US Green Card in Miami after the cruise.
It was more of a free life back then. It seems we turned into some sort of star wars society. All the strange foreigners.
Yes, somehow the 911 and events after that changed many things, the Internet was also different.
It seems the internet is the greatest invention after the wheel. This is only the beginning.
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Thanks for Al Gore and his legislation initiatives in the 1980’s, without these initiatives the world would not be as it is now. Personally I do not like to some changes such as Facebook, but Twitter is good.
In this morning I had a chat with one person, he is using his smart phone to pay all bills, I suppose many people are doing so. Technology has brought many new ways to our daily lives. Even I have the 4G internet connection and it is possible to watch movies on the net, we have one library service with which it is possible to watch two movies a month on the net.