Spanish Nurse in Turku

Firstly, I should say nowdays to find a job in my home country being a nurse is difficult for young people, you have to pass a public exam and usually health system only call you to work covering night shift or holidays from older proffesionals. So it is a great opportunity to apply for a nurse job in Finland due to the fact that they need a lot health proffesional. However, there is a big problem and that issue is that you have to be fluent in Finnish language. I haven´t finish nurse degree yet but I know a Spanish friend that has already finished and she is now working in Pori. She told me that her first idea to write the curriculum for England, like many of the classmates who had studied with me, but it was in January 2012 when her grandmother happened to tell me that she had seen on the news that in Finland they needed nurses.  She sent her curriculum, then they confirmed that She was among the 52 nurses chosen to go to the west of Finland. The Finnish company that chose them...

The best place to experience a Sauna is Finland because Finland is the country that invented it. Foreign people may believe that Sauna is a luxury activity or they have never done it before. However, for finns people is a daily experience and they used to feel relax everyday. For those who do not know what is a sauna. A sauna is a small place or room usually made by wood in which, there is steam and very high temperatures are reached, so the skin starts to sweat and all waste substances in the body are purified. After this you usually take a cold shower. Normally the Finns have the saunas in front of the lakes or in their own houses and they bathe naked there. When noticing the contrast of temperature the organism enters a state of maximum relaxation and with a great well-being.  When I tried for the first time here in Finland I felt really overwhelmed with the heat and steam because of that I only be there 5 minutes, but after that I could swin in the lake and I have t...

Today, I am going to write about one cultural issue that is shock to me and in my opinion is really amazing. Is unique in the world for Nordic Countries Everyone has the right to roam Finland’s forests and countryside freely, no matter who owns the land, thanks to a legal concept, it is known as Everyman’s Right. This is brilliant because you can enjoy outdoor activities like walking o swimming and noone can prohibited to you the access. By contrast, in my country for example most of the natural areas are prohibited because the owners of the land do not permit free entrance so sometimes its difficult to freely enjoy outdoors.  However, there are some rules that you must accept, for example You don’t need a permit to fish with a simple hook and line in Finnish waters, although a permit is required for other kinds of fishing. You cannot used motorized vehicles but another example of freedom is that you are enable of camping whatever you want generally. Berries, mushroom...

Firstly, I  should say that in my first days here I were shocked because here all young and older people goes to recycle cans and plastic bottles to a certain machines. My surprised was capital when I see that the machine "rewarding" you with money! For every can they give you 15 cents!  In my opinion, this is a great system that encourage people to recycle more and more. In my country we don´t have this type of system and we need more effort in the authorities specially politicians who have a poor formation about climate change and recycling culture. Finnish Government say that b everage container recycling programmes work well because of a monetary deposit system. Recovery rates are near 100 percent. " For recyclable aluminium beverage cans and plastic bottles, recovery rates are 96 percent and 94 percent. Finland also leads the way on paper recycling with a recycling rate of 93 percent in 2011, which is very high by European standards". Their infrastucture...

The recent history in Finland starts in 19th Century when nationalism emerged. This nationalism was go by the highly distinctive language, culture, mythology and folklore. In 1917 was declared Finland Independence. After that a civil war between two sides desvastated Finland. This two "sides" were the Read Guards and the White Guards. The first one were paramilitary units of the labour movement on the contrary, the White Guards were completely opposite to the comunism way of thinking of the Red army.  The White ones were victorious.  After the internal affairs stabilized, they build good relationship with Sweden and Britain but there were a lot of tension with Soviet Union. In the Second World War Finland defended against Soviet Union. Finally, they ended ceding karelia and other parts to Soviet Union. In the latter half of its independent history. The Country expanded the welfare state along his citizens also,  Finland joined the  European Union  in 19...

Compared to my home country, Finland has a low rate of non-working people. In   July 2018   reports the number of unemployed persons was 183,000, which was 24,000 fewer than July 2017. The unemployment rate was 6.5%, down from 7.5% in July 2017. However, it is a really big challenge to find a job for foreign people.  The biggest and most important issue for a foreigner is usually language. There are very few jobs where it is possible to work without knowing any Finnish, and for reasons of occupational safety alone it is vital to be able to communicate. Local authorities, universities and and many employers provide immigrants and their families with  language training , either free or at very low cost. The level of Finnish skills necessary for a job depends greatly on the nature of the work, but on average  six months  of intensive language training should provide enough skill in Finnish to get by at the average workplace. But, if you are able to s...

I realised being here in Finland that there are certaing racism underlying. This has not happened to me, however, in my stay here I have seen some uncomfortable moments seen this happen specially with people from Africa and countries out of Europe. Most of Finnish people are always ready and trying to help foreginers and really open mind but there are a little part of the population that they believe their are supeior to foreign people specially Arabian and African people.  I saw in first person last week when I was playing football with some inmigrants friends and we needed two more players to complete the match properly, so we asked two Finnish young boys that were playing football alone and they answer us that they didn´t want to play with us. It was pretty shocking!! In my opinion, this type of racism is growing in Europe specially in Northen Countries due to the fact that the refugees crisis united to certain economic crisis in Southern Countries. The best prove is th...