Haters!

I start again by telling you guys how happy I am all the time!! But I am, can’t help it!! Here I hear everyday “yeeeh you saved my day, thank you for being here!” I ask what do you guys mean? “You’re always so happy, smiling, dancing, singing, laughing… you’re just full of joy all the time and you give us lots of energy.” So weird that in Finland people tell me “You look scary, are you planning to kill us, you always look so angry and negative.” What should I think about all this?

I am a person who is annoyed all the time, or at least I thought that I am. But here I’m not upset, of course, sometimes, but rarely. I do not know whether it is the pleasure and the positivity because of the sun or the heavenly beautiful ocean or the people that are living here. They always smile and are sincere. I feel mentally better here than ever before, and here I can be completely myself. In Finland I usually cannot be. Finnish people are so condemning and negative. Of course not all but 80%. I am afraid of the moment when I have to share the hate. Depression will probably be total. But the joy is that I’m graduating from the school and with good results.

And now I can say that, after all, it’s time to be proud of myself when I started planning a job abroad I was thinking that I would be with my backpack in the airport saying “I could have enjoyed being here”. Well, we know it never happened. Work and break have done good to me, it has all been worth it. I was thinking I could never arrange this all by myself, the school would have needed to help me finding a job and a place to live but I organized everything by myself. Maybe I’m not totally jerk! The school had limited this international training period to take place in Europe, but it seems that I could present things right since I ended up in the Caribbean instead of Spain. I love working with the sea, it calms me and the sea inspires me and gives me energy and its colour shakes my soul.

I’ve learned a lot and got to know the cultural differences which are huge. I could almost say that this is exactly the opposite to Finland. Not just in terms of weather but ALL. In many cases, I have been confused here; is this how things are going and no one has to address them. It has been said to me several times that you are coming from the most accurate rules country in the world. And now I really see it. Of course in Finland things are better not to argue, but if you love nature and independence this is a paradise. <3

Marketing has been my work here and I have learned a lot. Of course, something I already knew, but I can say that here I have truly learned so thanks to Sari and the school headmaster, this has been a useful journey, instructive and given me a lot. And I promised you when I left that I create: INTERNATIONAL connection and I feel that I have managed to do it.

On the first working day I started looking for business partners and got many companies to work with us and yesterday it was the first fruit I sold a paradise island package to two Finns. My boss was so proud of me, and maybe I could be as well. Great! Life is wonderful. Life would be magnificent if I got my babies (=my dogs) here, but somehow one day 😉 I don’t want go back home anymore.

Yesterday, I again went to get Finland deeper into the Caribbean map. I tell you, here baseball is a BIG THING. In every professional team there are at least two Dominican players which means that baseball is taken here seriously. Yesterday I went to watch the game in the evening and it was awesome, it felt the same as watching sm-league ice hockey in Finland. There were awesome vibes and I enjoyed with full breasts. I was laughing and dancing and so were some of the players. When one game ended, the teams caught me and started taking pictures of me. I was wondering what the hell is going on. Each team in turn photographed me, what the fuck? Now, at least Finnish Annika has been with the baseball teams in the pictures, I was not really excited about it, but I was trying to be polite.

In the morning, one or two of the gues came to talk to me about how I inspired them and how they got good energy of me. I asked them why the teams wanted to take pictures of me because it looked like a hell of a shit. They said they wanted to show everyone how wonderful and awesome I am. I’m still a little confused about all this. But I’m happy if I’m able to inspire people. However, I do not want celebrity, even though it has already been said that I’m a celebrity here. I’m wordless, but I am a person who also requires own privacy. Yet, to be able to inspire people is quite intriguing, right?

xoxo<3 Caribbean lover <3