Hehe, four years ago when I was planning this blog, it helped me to get started when I realized that some of things which are ordinary and common-place for me might appear as exotic and interesting for people from another parts of the world.

When I was in the elementary school our teacher sometimes said that we are lucky to have been born in Finland as this is such a good country. As a child I thought that in all the other countries they probably say the same about their own country, and that Finland is no special since life is basically the same everywhere. But later I have realized that there actually might be some things which make us special in some ways. For example, in Finland we have about 53 metal bands per 100.000 people. That's almost two times more than in Sweden or Norway, and nearly ten times more than in the USA =)

But seriously, yes I think the more the ordinary people all around the globe get connected to each other, the better. We get to hear and to share stories from different countries and different cultures, always learning new details on how the life is both all the same and all unique everywhere =)