With coming to Finland came not only the fun things, but also the less fun things. I had to figure out how to get a bus ticket, which station i had to go to, and how i would get to my place of internship for the coming 5 months.
Of course i got lost a LOT in the beginning, but i have to say, thus far the Finnish people are very kind. Whomever i dared ask for directions pointed me in either the right way, or even walked me a little of the way to make sure i got to my destination.
Of course i heavily appreciated it because getting around in a country where you dont speak the language is quite confusing.
Another less fun but nessesary part of coming to Finland for an internship is the Migri. Aka the migration office.
As an EU citizen you do not have to apply for finnish citizenship if you work here for 3 months, but if you work longer then that, you will have to visit the Migri to get a Finnish social number, which you will need if you want to use a travel card and do not wish to get in trouble with the law.
So of course it is a very important part of internship in Finland! But the biggest downside of it, is the getting there.
Appointments are hard to get, but if you cannot wait untill they have a spot for you, then you can always queue up.
The biggest bummer of this system is that there are only 50 spots that they hand out for the day, and you have to stand in line to get a ticket.
They start the queue at 8 in the morning, but advise being there around 7.
So in my timely nature i got up at 5 (sob), and was out the door by 6, so i was at the migri at 6:45. And there were already people there! I do not even want to know how long they had been standing there, but i knew for sure the hour and 15 minutes i had to spend standing in line outside in the snow was more then enough for my taste.
All in all it was an exhausting endeavor, but something nesseary. I am unsure how other countries go about immigration, but i hope that this little short at least helps future interns bound for Finland prepare for this part of it :).
greeds.inferno
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15 Apr 2020
February 28, 2017
With coming to Finland came not only the fun things, but also the less fun things. I had to figure out how to get a bus ticket, which station i had to go to, and how i would get to my place of internship for the coming 5 months.
Of course i got lost a LOT in the beginning, but i have to say, thus far the Finnish people are very kind. Whomever i dared ask for directions pointed me in either the right way, or even walked me a little of the way to make sure i got to my destination.
Of course i heavily appreciated it because getting around in a country where you dont speak the language is quite confusing.
Another less fun but nessesary part of coming to Finland for an internship is the Migri. Aka the migration office.
As an EU citizen you do not have to apply for finnish citizenship if you work here for 3 months, but if you work longer then that, you will have to visit the Migri to get a Finnish social number, which you will need if you want to use a travel card and do not wish to get in trouble with the law.
So of course it is a very important part of internship in Finland! But the biggest downside of it, is the getting there.
Appointments are hard to get, but if you cannot wait untill they have a spot for you, then you can always queue up.
The biggest bummer of this system is that there are only 50 spots that they hand out for the day, and you have to stand in line to get a ticket.
They start the queue at 8 in the morning, but advise being there around 7.
So in my timely nature i got up at 5 (sob), and was out the door by 6, so i was at the migri at 6:45. And there were already people there! I do not even want to know how long they had been standing there, but i knew for sure the hour and 15 minutes i had to spend standing in line outside in the snow was more then enough for my taste.
All in all it was an exhausting endeavor, but something nesseary. I am unsure how other countries go about immigration, but i hope that this little short at least helps future interns bound for Finland prepare for this part of it :).
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