The effects of globalisation in my country

Finland is a free market-economy and therefore it is open to globalisation. For starters, many huge companies have invested in Finland. An advantage is that they bring more competition which leads to reduced consumer prices. It’s quite common that the sub offices are run by Finnish managers.

The second point is that Finland itself has produced several big companies, later developed into global businesses. To name a few of the biggest ones, there are Nokia, Stora Enso, UPM-Kymmene, last two are paper manufacturers, and KONE, which is an elevator manufacturer.

In the 1990s Finnish businesses started translating and using the titles inside the company in English to ease globalisation. My personal touch with globalisation was working at McDonald’s for one year at the beginning of the Millennium :)

Class Report

In our class, there are several nationalities among 21 students. Most of us come from Asian countries like China (6), Korea (6), Taiwan (2) and one from Japan (1); a few come from Africa (two Ethiopians, one Somali) and Oceania (one Tongan, one Samoan) and one from Europe: Finland.

Currently most of our classmates have permanent residency and a few of us are either citizens or international students.

As in our class is a great variety of different origins, the list of different hobbies is quite long, and here are some of them: someone plays computer games and another goes to church; most of us listen to music and some of us like reading books.

This was only a small glimpse of what kind of people we have in our class. I’m looking forward to learning more of my classmates’ history – and why not the present. Cheers…

About me

Hi!
I’m a Finnish guy from Suomenlinna, which is a historical seafortress by Helsinki. I’ve been in NZ since July -07 and my status is an international student. My hobbies are sailing, photographing and doing sports. At Mt Albert campus there are good facilities for doing sports, and staying at the Residential Village gives an opportunity to use them for free.

My family is very dear to me. My parents, two brothers and four sisters, and their relations are all living in Finland so unfortunately I won't see them for a while.

How about education and employment? I’ve been studying a Bachelor’s Degree in Boat Industry in Kotka. Before my BD studies, I finished a Skipper course in Turku Navigational School.

My work history starts from the summer of -97 when I was 15 years selling ice cream in the corner of Piper Park, in Suomenlinna. Since then my other jobs have been e.g. deckhand, sail maker, boatbuilder etc. My future career will be somehow related to water.

As a first language I speak Finnish. Other languages I know at least a little are English, Swedish, German and Estonian. Spanish is in process ;)

Ok, read you later...