You may remember me mentioning ESN – The Erasmus Student Network- in one of my earlier posts. It’s this great student run organization that spans the entire European Union, with chapters in nearly every university across the continent planning a number of great events in both competition and cooperation with each other. One of these…
Consider this the Finnish spring break – but with less sun and bathing suits and more Saunas and negative temperatures. I’ve got the week off of school, and since I’m still on a mission to see all the Nordic countries while here, three of us booked a trip to Oslo for five days. We had…
The Link enlisted me back in September of 2015 to write about film and movies. Perhaps you remember my inaugural post about one of my favourite independent romantic comedies Ruby Sparks. Since then my contributions here have dipped further into the cultural realm with the occasional album review and now, circumstance has cast me as…
I would be lying if I said I didn’t expect some sort of ceremonious “crossing into the arctic circle” roadside sign or border on our trip up north. There was no such indication. When we drove through Rovaniemi, we stopped at Santa Clause Village, the “official” home of Santa Clause. Across the street…
During Ski Week here in Finland – a week off of school at the end of February- I took off to Lapland to soak in life above the Arctic Circle. Check out the video recap below in Vlog #2 of my semester abroad here in Finland. Fair warning: it’s a long one, and if you…