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	<title>Treasured Moments</title>
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		<title>Homebound</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three months of D.C. and American life packed into two big suitcases (plus a third one sent to Finland last week&#8230;), some last-minute shopping and I am ready to board the plane. I am stressing out about stuff, but otherwise I&#8217;m good. As I mentioned before, this change feels different than before. It is not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matleena.wordpress.com&blog=418439&post=497&subd=matleena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting ready to let go.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last 4 days of my three-month stay here in D.C. are at hand and I&#8217;m getting ready to go back home. This time around, I feel different, though. When I was getting ready to leave T.O. after my exchange, I felt sad, unhappy, and wasn&#8217;t ready to go back at all. Now, I feel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matleena.wordpress.com&blog=418439&post=493&subd=matleena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://matleena.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/getting-ready-to-let-go/</link>
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		<title>Come rain or come shine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The D.C. weather is a topic worth discussing. It is always on the lips of someone, and there is always something to be said about how it is outside. When I arrived here in August, the weather was sizzling hot, a bit too hot to be exact. As the temperature climbed close to 40 degrees [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matleena.wordpress.com&blog=418439&post=488&subd=matleena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://matleena.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/come-rain-or-come-shine/</link>
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		<title>For richer for poorer&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last two months of D.C. life have taught me quite a bit about the American society. What I&#8217;ve observed, learned, and seen is that America is like a two-edged sword. On one hand, there is materialism, a lotta money, bling-bling, expensive cars, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Juicy Couture and what-not, and then, on the other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matleena.wordpress.com&blog=418439&post=483&subd=matleena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://matleena.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/for-richer-for-poorer/</link>
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		<title>Proud Finn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made my very first appearance as an Embassy of Finland intern at the 2009 Euro Night last weekend. The Euro Night is a concept created by the French Embassy here &#8211; it is a chance for the European countries to introduce their food and drinking -culture to the Americans and to the folks here [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matleena.wordpress.com&blog=418439&post=475&subd=matleena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://matleena.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/proud-finn/</link>
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		<title>The Big Apple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A year and a half after my first trip to NYC, I found myself at a Times Square hostel again&#8230; this time around, the bus trip only took four hours and we managed to cram a lot into two days!
We took the Megabus from D.C. and the trip went surprisingly fast. The bus was a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matleena.wordpress.com&blog=418439&post=471&subd=matleena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://matleena.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/the-big-apple/</link>
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		<title>The Beach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent the last two weekends traveling around the country&#8230;and I&#8217;ve managed to travel through six states in total&#8230;Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York (and D.C.)! 
Last weekend a group of Finnish au pairs and then a few of us Finnish interns hopped on a diplomat car and drove to the South, to Virginia [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matleena.wordpress.com&blog=418439&post=467&subd=matleena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://matleena.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/the-beach/</link>
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		<title>Future prospects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The greatest part after free vodka tastings at work is the fact that I&#8217;ve gotten some questions answered. I came to D.C. as unprepared as possible in terms of what working for the Foreign Ministry was going to be like. Although there&#8217;s still a lot to learn, and mysteries to unravel, I feel that I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matleena.wordpress.com&blog=418439&post=463&subd=matleena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://matleena.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/future-prospects/</link>
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		<title>Hail the hero of health care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a Friday night sushi and movie, we journeyed to Capitol Hill on Saturday for a totally different kind of occasion. My roommate Natasha and I decided we wanted to pay our respects and see the funeral progression of late Teddy Kennedy. On our way there, it became apparent that it is definitely good to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matleena.wordpress.com&blog=418439&post=460&subd=matleena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://matleena.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/hail-the-hero-of-health-care/</link>
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		<title>Learning American&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I arrived in the States, I swore to myself my pronunciation would not change. I&#8217;d savor the Canadian vowels and keep my expressions as Canadian as possible. Little did I know that I&#8217;d be living with an American, and I can&#8217;t help it -she&#8217;s taught me new expressions that have come part of my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matleena.wordpress.com&blog=418439&post=455&subd=matleena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://matleena.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/learning-american/</link>
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