I'm Edward Lundborg. I chose to go abroad to Finland because since a couple years ago I decided I wanted to go abroad. Falling in love with the idea of Finland was a bit more recent. I think that started last year when I broadened my musical knowledge a lot more and found more Finnish bands, one of which primarily used the Finnish language.
At some point I acquired a Finnish/English dictionary. I was fascinated by the language since it was so different from the surrounding areas. It felt like an Asian language that grew up in a place where an Anglo language should be, thus taking aspects of it. The challenge of wrapping my mouth over the new vowels was fun, too.
My family decided to go forward on the idea of foreign exchange about midsummer 2008. Over the time of the planning process I was in our school musical from December to March. This was when I received the AFS handbook, which gave me a lot of insight into the foreign experience.
About a month after I was called and I learned that I was guaranteed a spot to go to Finland. I was excited, but the call just moved us one obstacle closer to the goal. We learned the cost soon after. It was a doozy.
It was about a month later after that that I learned who my host family was. After trading emails with the mother of the family I got a little bit of the feel for what I might expect from them, personality-wise. My host mother to-be is a very nice lady and I'm sure to have a warm welcome to their family.
Later, thanks to Google Maps, I looked up the place where they lived and the school I was likely to go to. The school, named Lumon Lukio, or Lumon Highschool, is very similar to the charter school I go to now, only a lot more funded and a lot bigger. There is even a restaurant and internet cafe in the campus area. All it needs is to be free and it's heaven on Earth! It's even a quarter mile from a metro station that I can take to another station near my host family's home.
Now here I am posting on this shiny new blog. Probably not often until I actually get to Finland.
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