Heh, another thing plfffft, getting used to eating here. Sure they have mcdonalds, hesburgers, and normal stuff too but I have found myself eating much more like everyone else...IE my sandwhiches are pieces of the ruisleipä(finnish rye bread, its dark, a little dry but I fell in love with it), with butter and cheese on them. I now have develpoed an affinity for pasta with ketchup as well. Its very good. And the sausages of course. Best eaten after a drunken sauna. (A word of warning, you sauna naked here, so dont be shocked if you see a bunch of drunken assholes walking into a hot room naked, and then standing on the porch with no pants on, still drunk.) The salmiakki might also take some getting used to...the candy is usally not too friendly with foreigners, its licorice tasting but a little more bitter(but i like it), the Salmiakki drink kicks a lot of ass...if you like Jager or Sambuca you should be able to handle the taste, but it is still different.
And of course, kebab. Kebab fucking rules. As does grilli food, but as expensive as it is, its all that is open after the bars and the nightclubs close so you take it anyway.
Public transit rules here. Where I live now in Leppävaara(a district in Espoo, you will notice there are a lot of district type things here, so when someone says they live in Vuosaari, they live in Helsinki. its just a district.), is right by the train station, but I might be either moving to a district in East Helsinki(like Itäkeskus, Kontula, Vuosaari-the Metro gets you in the center, but it stops early...after that, its cab or night bus), Kilo, Tuomarila, or Espoo Keskus(all districts in Espoo reachable by train), but Olari seems to be a good area thats cheap, also in Espoo but it only runs a bus. But the bus runs well.
