Free Lunch!

It's been awhile since I wrote in my Finnish Blog - so here I am!

I previously mentioned that elementary school starts at the age of 7 up until they are 19. So there are still the standard 12 grades and the education system here is quite excellent I've been told.
Well get this - students (during elementary school straight until graduation of high school) get free, nutritious and HOT lunch. Everyday until they graduate high school. That means - no purchasing of lunch bags, ziploc bags, thermoses or having to remember to pack a lunch for your kid everyday- Monday through to Friday. This also means not having to find mold in a forgotten lunch container, missing lids to plastic containers or having your child starve because they forgot their lunch bag on the bus or on the counter.
WOW. In Canada there's presently talks (if it's not done already) of having to pay for supervision in the lunch rooms.

Oh I got my hospital bills for when I delivered and stayed there. Including V�in�'s ICU visit. Per day worked out to be approximately 30 Euros (1 Euro = ~ $1.50 CDN)....these bills should be corrected tomorrow when I go to the Neuvola as I finally got paper work from the Kela stating that I was covered since August.
As well - hurrah! I finally got my Kela card!

Today I went to the S-Market downtown and Tim had requested "Finnish Danishes"on the grocery list. The running joke being that danishes are a food as well as the proper term for someone from Denmark. However these "danishes" (the edible kind) are baked by Finnish people.
Anyways - I got a bag with a couple of freshly baked danishes (mine is sitting near me on the table waiting to be gobbled up) and just noticed that the label says:

"PIKKUWIENER"

The Finnish language is a tricky one...many multiple words are combined into a single word. For example a street in English might be: "Tulip Street"
However in Finnish - it's all one word. The street I live on is "Valajankatu".
"katu" being the "street" or road.
Which makes it quite difficult while trying to translate documents in Finnish (presently working on that now) as the word on the paper may not be written as is, in the dictionary!
I may have to learn Finnish fairly soon.