Ei se mitään, oon opettanu ATK:ta, osaan auttaa. Tuo quote toimii varsin epäloogisesti tällä foorumilla. Jos esim. haluat quotettaa Sannan viimeistä lyhyttä viestiä, niin paina sen viestin oikeassa ALAKULMASSA olevaa sinistä +QUOTE nappulaa (et paina oikeassa yläkulmassa olevaa nappulaa, koska se on edellisen viestin quote-nappula). Tämä nappula muuttuu tällöin punaiseksi -QUOTE nappulaksi. Nyt suunnistat koko ruudun alareinaan ja painat oikeassa alakulmassa olevaa ADDREPLY nappulaa. Tämän jälkeen näet tyypillisen vastausruudun jossa koko edellinen teksti on siteerattuna. Voit lyhentää sitä sitaattia, mutta älä koske hakasulkujen sisällä olevaan tekstiin. Esim tässä sitaatissa hakasulkujen sisällä oleva teksti on: quote name='snorkies' date='Feb 28 2008, 11:14 PM' post='1620394' ja se quotetus päättyy /quote komentoon. Jos tämä olisi HTML tai XML-koodia voisin selittää paremmin, mutta tämä on BBS-koodia joten jos tuota selitystä on vaikea ymmärtää niin yritä huitoa ympäriinsä. Ton jälkeen kun osaat quotettaa yhtä viestinpätkää opetan quotettamaan yhtä viestiä moneen kertaan .



Noita timelinejä on olemassa itseasiassa kaksi erillaista. Se toinen on tuossa mun signaturessa oleva timeline, se toinen löytyy kun painat tästä. Tuota sun signaturessa olevaa timelineä voit muokata kun painat My Controls nappulaa joka löytyy YLHÄÄLTÄ keskeltä sun ruutua (skrollaat tietysti ensin kuvaruudun yläosaan). Tämän jälkeen katsot VASEMPAA palkkia jossa kohdan 'Personal Profile' alta löytyy kohta 'Edit signature'. Painat sitä. Sitten alat kirjottamaan sun valkoseen ruutuun tekstiä. Se on varsin helppoa. Esim mulla lukee hääpäivä muodossa "06/06/06 Got married" ja noin. Väriä ja fonttiakin voi muutella ja pelleillä muuten vaan jos haluaa, itse yritän pitää timelineni mahd. selvänä jotta kaikki ymmärtää (ihmiset pyytää multa jatkuvasti tilastotieteellisiä laskelmia, joten se auttaa jos oma timeline on ees jotenkin selvät, etten aiheuta lisää sekaannuksia) .



Täällä on varsin rauhallista. Asutaan n. 3h päässä Kanadan rajasta. Suurin ongelma täällä on se, että Massachusettistä tulee kaikki New Hampshireen shoppailemaan koska täällä ei ole ALV:tä lainkaan (eikä sen puoleen tuloveroakaan). Joten monet NH:n suuremmat kaupungit kärsii Massin ongelmista kuten rikollisuudesta. Emmä tiedä, kysele tarkemmin ni vastailen .



Mää pelkään kans ihan hirveesti piikkejä. Tosin noi rokotukset ei ollu kovin pahoja lopulta. Se neula sattu paljon vähemmän mitä muistin kun olin lapsi. Yks syy siihen on siinä, et 20-vuodessa neulat on yhä kaventuneet.

Heips vaan

Mun äiti ja sen miesystävä tuli meidän häihin kesällä 2005. Ne teki roadtripin Kaliforniasta tänne ja menivät sitten takasin eri reittiä. Muita sukulaisia tai kavereita ei sitten Suomesta tullutkaan. Oli ajoittain vähän orpo olo, mutta tärkein juttu oli, että äiti tuli häihin, ja toki tunsin siinä vaiheessa jo hyvin miehen kaverit ja perheen. Minä oon myös ainoo lapsi, ja vanhemmat erosi, kun olin pieni. Mun Suomen pään kavereista meillä ei oo mun muuton jälkeen täällä käynyt kuin yksi.

Kuulostaa mielenkiintoselta toi sun tuleva asuinpaikka. Mihin pitää lentää, että on lyhin matka hankkiutua sinne saarelle? Entä minkälaista siellä on talvella?

Utah on moneen muuhun paikkaan verrattuna aika rauhallinen. Vuoret on tosi kauniit täällä pohjoisessa ja etelässä taas on ihan länkkärimaisemat. Kesällä on mun mielestä ihan liian kuuma ja heinä-elokuussa lämpötilat kipuaa usein about 40 celsiukseen. Talvella taas tulee lunta niin maan keleesti ja vuorilla onkin paljon hiihtokeskuksia. Kuis se sun siippa nyt niin Utahin yliopistossa opiskelua vastaan oli? Monien ennakkoluulo on, että täällä ei oo kun kasa mormoneja. Kyllä meitä ei mormoneja ja erilaisia vähemmistöjäkin täältä löytyy paljon. Täällä on myös aika edullista asua ja kai siihen kesäilmastoonkin ajan kanssa sopeutuu Täällä on yllättävän monia suomalaisia, tosin suurin osa niistä on vanhempia mormoninaisia, jotka on muuttaneet tänne 30-60 vuotta sitten. Hyvä puoli pienessä suomalaisyhteisössä on se, että pääsee aina silloin tällöin höpöttämään suomea niin paljon kuin sielu sietää

Mukavaa päivää sinne ja onnea piikityksiin

T. Sanna

Yey, my case for removing of conditions was approved today

Congrats on the quick processing!

Hi everyone,

Been posting on VJ for about 1 year now....never really noticed this forum until now. I'm just curious...to those who're already in the U.S. what do you miss most about back home??

Here's my list:

Rundstykker
Real cheeses - I'm sick and tired of cheddar
Real butter
Chocolate that doesn't taste 'fake'
Free healthcare and education
People that can actually drive
People that doesn't think Denmark is the capital of Sweden!!


Tine

Good for you . Can you apply for citizenship next year or will that have to wait? (I'm not sure about how K-visas function, I know I can apply for a citizenship 2010.)

I don't miss many things from Finland that much. But then again I've only been here for four months... Still, I don't think I'm ever going to witness a culture shock since I've been quite well pre-adapted to American life. Also I never really thought that things in here are so great either... I dunno, here's my short list of things I miss:

- My little dog, a miniature Schnauzer
- High fructose corn syrup free chocolate (Hersey's btw. sell "real chocolate" with real sugar only)
- High fructose corn syrup free soda (can be found from smaller soda manufacturers or in some stores as "Mexican coke" or "Jewish coke")
- Other stuff without damn high fructose corn syrup (e.g. Breyer's ice-cream is about the only ice-cream with real sugar only, LU brand cookies don't have it either, neither do most candy you find on the so called "Brittish aisle"). I really dislike that you find HFCS in stuff like ketchup etc. I always have to go to great lengths to avoid it. The good thing is that ones you check out the brands you can always safely pick them up without having to eat that nasty stuff.
- People that drive safely, although the roads are neat and wide with multiple lanes and the cars are new and safe etc. I still do freak out myself every ones in a while, especially when entering high ways
- Salmikki (very close to the Dannish saltlakrids)
- Rye bread (nearly impossible to get)
- Atheism, I really liked how atheistic Finns are and how even those who believe in god keep it to themselves and tend to have a "meh."-attitude towards religion. In here you run into deeply religious people all the time. The only good thing is that they don't have a state church in here like they do in Finland...

In general I'm way happier in here than I ever was in Finland. I love the fact that you can shop 24/7 and that you get a high wage. I also love the quite low taxes and that I don't have to pay for all those "great government ideas" that I don't support and don't use at all anyway...

You can get rye bread mix at IKEA!

Hi there everyone



Chocolate and good cheese are on top of my list too. You can get good European chocolate from quite a few super markets here though and some stores have a pretty good international cheese selection. The good ones naturally cost more... Utah doesn't seem to be big on dairy products. I miss e.g. quark and all the great light cooking creams from back home. I made quark myself once but let's just say that wasn't a success.. Utahns are scary drivers too. I hate driving on the freeway or in rush hour traffic. That's because of all the crazy people out there who supposedly have a driver's license Oh and btw, one of my coworkers thought Finland was the capital of Denmark



Yup, I have my mum send me a bag of salmiakki every once in a while. Luckily the local Dutch store has "liitulakuja"...*drools* I sometimes get rye bread from the Russian bakery. It's not quite the same but it does the trick for me.



I LOVE going to Ikea. I'm more interested in the food market than the furniture though I always stack up on Marabou chocolate, lingonsaft, pärlsocker (for baking), vaniljsocker (for baking), vaniljsås etc. Can't get al the good stuff that cheap anywhere else here.



I sure can. I'm thinking I'll wait for at least 2 years though. I need a break from the immigration stuff

I LOVE going to Ikea. I'm more interested in the food market than the furniture though I always stack up on Marabou chocolate, lingonsaft, pärlsocker (for baking), vaniljsocker (for baking), vaniljsås etc. Can't get al the good stuff that cheap anywhere else here.

Marabou About my favorite chocolate in the world!! Why oh why dear God is there not an IKEA in North Carolina??!! I love IKEA by the way. Back home my entire apartment was straight out of IKEA.

None of the stores around here really sell anything Scandinavian. Except Danish cookies which are kinda nasty. Oh well I once saw 'Danish' cheese at a Sam's Club but we don't have a membership so.....

Oh and yes drivers over here SUCK! I'm tired of people pulling out in front of me on the highway and hitting my car!

As for the religion part. I married into a family with not 1 but 2 preachers. Needless to say I miss people keeping their religion to themself - what ever little they have in Denmark.

The food section alone is worth the trip "To the mothership"
The furniture is for viewing, not buying. It brings back memories of studentkorridorsliv when we used to have "put-furniture-together parties" and get lots of hardware left over that no one could find a reason to use

I don't bother using quotes now, since I will be replying to a lot of what you guys said at random.

First I don't fully get it why you guys have had such a trouble finding good cheese? Yes, the cheese in the cheese aisle consists of 100-different types of cheddar and nothing else, but most stores seem to have a separate aisle. Our current store (Stop and Shop, a chain that exists only in Northern New England) has mozzarella, parmesan, pepper cheese, blue cheese and brie at least, which means pretty much all the cheeses we commonly use. When you add cheddar to the mix to use instead of Edam or Olterman (or other common cheese) you have pretty much all that you need . Or am I missing something in here?

We don't have an Ikea in New Hampshire either, which is rather strange considering the fact that this is one of the least taxed state in the union (the only one without an income, or a sales tax) and Ikea tends to like those kinds of places . The closest Ikea is south of Boston, about 2 and a half hours drive away. We go there occasionally to buy furniture and to buy some candy, preserve and müsli. I especially love the gooseberry (karviainen/krusbär) preserve. I'm a little sad that the cloudberry preserve they sell still has stones in it, it really sucks. My wife is very fund of the lingonberry one which she says tastes more authenthic than the ones on sale in here. It may be that the lingonberry preserves in our local store have that damned corn syrup again . Our Ikea also had a lady who could speak real Swedish, it was really pleasent and I do love it how all the books on their shelfs are Swedish. I could just use Ikea as a library actually . It's also strange how much better the Ikea assembled furniture is in comparison to the same found in say Tarkeg or Wallmart. Our assembled furniture from these stores always look like a bunch of retards would have done the handy work . Albeit neither one of us is very good with handywork, the result should still look better. Like our bookshelf is bent in more than one way and it looks like it could fall over any second .

My wife doesn't have the rye mix, but she has real rye flower which she mixes into almost any food she makes instead of mixing wheat flower only, so I do get my fair share of rye (of course it's not the same). I'm a little sceptical towards the rye bread. Has anyone of you tried this? Does it work well? I've heard that real rye bread is extremely hard to make...

There's also a scandinavian store in Concord (about a half an hour from here) but it's fairly expensive and sells mostly Swedish and Norweigian cooking equipment.

*Hump* *hump*

...sorry

...I meant to bump it

Anyone here?

Hei hei.
I am Norwegian, hubby is American. He is from Seattle and I lived there for a year when I met him. Now we live in Norway but in a few years we will move back (most likely). The Pacific Northwest is beautiful. Good luck with your visa application!

Hi, I am here in U.S. and my Fiance is in Malmo, Sweden. We are miserable and I hope this goes as quickly and smoothly as possible.

Just have faith in god! And everything will go just fine!
I wish you good luck !!!

Thanks! I just wish I could have sent it to the VSC instead of CSC! What a difference!

Hi im new to this forum. i have the love of my life over in finland. im looking for any information that would help to bring us together. Were looking for any kind of advice for you guys out there who have done this before. thanks in advance for any help you can give.

And that would be me...

Heippa kaikille munki puolesta! Tässä nyt lähinnä mietitään, että mitä tehtäis ja miten edettäis. Näyttää hirveeltä koko prosessi, huh huh... Lykkyä tykö kaikille!

Mrs. Bean, tervetuloa joukkoon iloiseen Ja lykkyä myös sinne. Oottekos te jo naimisissa? Siitä nimittäin aika pitkälle riippuu, mitä viisumia haetaan. Kannattais varmaan käydä tsekkaamassa tän saitin Visa Faq-osio.

Welcome aboard everyone and good luck!

Hello ?!

Yup, it's definitely been pretty dead in this thread lately Any ideas for a good topic?

QUOTE(SanDan @ Jul 5 2008, 11:37 PM)

Yup, it's definitely been pretty dead in this thread lately Any ideas for a good topic?

Hello sanDan!!!
Well not really… but how are you doing??
Nice to see that someone is life here…. There isn’t that many Scandinavians around here…
Where in Finland do come from??

Hej Alexandra_v

Well, you did come up with a topic: Where is everyone from? I was born and raised in Helsinki. How about yourself? And where in the US are you/will you be moving?

Hei and Hej and what have you everyone!

I feel really bad for not checking out this thread for ages. I've been mad busy. Plus trying hard not to think about visa stuff until we heard something, 'cos it was makin' me blue. BUT NOW WE HEARD SOMETHING! Just yesterday our I-130 got approved and we couldn't be happier. It 75 days, that's pretty fast don't cha think, what with the stuff that's been goin' on?
Hope everyone else is doing good, with their jobs, babies and hey, those pesky visa applications and status adjustments.

Oh and to answer Sanna's question, I'm a Helsinki girl myself, though grew up in Kuopio, but I was born in our fine Capital.

Thanks for all the good vaccination etc. info SanDan and Stabu, I'm almost done with mine. Pesky quicksilver-laden toxins...

Congrats snorkies! Onneksi olkoon

Hello san dan!
My history is complicated! To be honest with you I don’t even know where I’m from!
Was born in Angola ( Afrika) moved to Portugal when I was 1 year old, Then to Sweden when I was 12 years old and from Sweden to USA ( Florida – Fort Myers ) stayed there for almost a year and now I’m back in Sweden waiting from my visa!
Hopefully I will go back to Florida in October!
How is everyone doing around here?

Snorkies
Congratulations!!!!