Muuttostressiä

Aikaa muuttoon on muutamia päiviä. Tällä kertaa muuttoa on helpottamassa muuttofirman lootat, mutta jonkunhan nekin on pakattava. Ja sitten on siivottavakin koko lukaali. Rojua ja rompetta tuntuu olevan joka sopessa. Kohta tuntuu siltä, että koko maallinen omaisuus täällä lahjotetaan pois ja ostetaan uudet Savukoskelta (tai sieltäpäin...).

Tällainen pikamuutto toisellepuolen Suomea samalla tehden töitä on kyllä melko haasteellista. Kaksi edellistä päivää on etsitty asuntoa ja tehty muita järjestelyjä ja kun ne on kondiksessa olo himpun liian rentoutunut. Stressin purkaantuminen ei tee nyt tässä vaiheessa liian hyvää. Nukku Matin kutsu kello 17:15 ei ole niin loistava asia.

Tuntureiden ja porojen kiilto on silmissä. Joulupukillekin on kuulema tulossa postia vietäväksi ihan Englannista asti. Täytynee visiteerata kun siinä naapurissa asuu ;-)

Yes you read that right...

OK. North. From Tampere, where we have lived since the summer of 2002 when Henna and I came back to Finland.

To Savukoski, which in English means Smoke Rapids.

Yes we are staying in Finland, and yes we will be living in the Arctic circle. Not all that far past the "line" but far enough for now.

As you can see from this screen shot from Google maps, Savukoski is 898Km from where we live now.

So why are we going to live there. Well. Henna. Henna is to be, for the next 10 months, the history teacher in the comprehensive school found at that address in the picture above! Tuesday (22/09/2009) was a very long day for all of us as we waited to hear if Henna had been fully excepted by the relevant boards in the area. Never really any doubt in my mind of course!

So we are off, next week! That's right, we will most likely need to be fully moved to there by the 1st of October. So the next 7-10 days are going to be some what hectic to say the least. We have lived in this apartment for the last 4 years and one month so there is a mountain of stuff that needs to be sorted and then packed.

We have made this blog to document and share our adventures over the next 10 months and we hope that you will all enjoy reading about our experiences in Lapland, Finland style, over that time.

Before I leave I want to share some facts with you. The municipality of Savukoski covers an area of 6,496 square kilometres and has a border with Russia that runs for approximately 67 kilometres. With a population of around 1200 people that makes Savukoski one of the most sparsely populated municipalities in Finland with just 0.19 inhabitants per square kilometre! Due to it's location the Reindeer out number the humans by ratio of over 10:1...

For more info, see here, here, and for sunset/sunrise times and other related data see here!

Thank you for reading, everyone. Hope to post maybe once more before the move then as soon as we can after arriving and then hence forth at least once a week from then on!