As a part of my job in the Finnish-American Chamber of Commerce, Florida Chapter, I maintain the webpages, social media and the blog. I mainly post about the recent events, happenings and the press releases we send out. Recently, I made a blog post about the situation in Florida’s population, employment and job market and … More Florida tops recors in 2015

I am thankful to have many good friends in my life. I have been missing them a lot while living on the other side of Atlantic. I was lucky to get two of my dear friends Kreetta and Tina to visit me in Florida for one week! They arrived to Miami on Friday 4th of … More Myspys T&K in Florida!

The Finnish American Chamber of Commerce organized its 5th Annual Christmas Party on 10th of December. The party was held in restaurant Benvenuto in Boynton Beach. The event kicked off by a cocktail hour, which was in the bar area. After the cocktail hour we moved to the beautiful Garden Room, where the President of … More FACC 5th Annual Christmas Dinner

I got more visitors! This time a friend of my, Severine, from France. I met her during living in Vienna as well! It was actually a (very nice) coincidence that she and her friend were in Florida at the same time as me. She was travelling with her friend around Florida in the Keys, Miami … More Viva la France!

The Honorary Consulate of Finland and the Finnish American Chamber of Commerce at Lake Worth, were honored to organize a classical music concert at the Lake Worth Playhouse on November 7th to honor the 150th Anniversary of the most famous Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The concert was organized to bring awareness of Finnish music and … More Sibelius 150 Jubilee concert a success!

I got a visitor from Vienna, a friend of mine whom I met while living in Vienna came to visit me! Stefan was doing a trip with some of his guy friends around the US, starting from NYC and Chicago, and then continuing towards East Coast. Stefan had already visited some of the places the … More Grusse aus Wien!

First week of November was a very interesting one work-wise. We had a Consular worker from Consulate General of Finland (New York) with whom we made passports for the Finnish citizens. As the Lake Worth / South Florida area is buzzling with Finns, we made almost 60 passports during the week. And there would have … More I’ve got your passport!

We celebrated Halloween on 31st of October. We decided to have a pre-party at my place. I cooked us some nice steaks with vegetables and salad, and then we had some (dry) apple pie I made.Heidi also carved a pumpkin for us, which was nice! In the evening we went to one of the biggest … More Halloween – Ahoy!