{"id":1403,"date":"2017-02-10T15:04:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T13:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maailmanvaihto.fi\/en\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2019-03-06T16:01:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T14:01:29","slug":"blog-finnish-chronicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maailmanvaihto.fi\/en\/blog-finnish-chronicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog: Finnish Chronicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moikka people! My name is <strong>Halid Muratoski,<\/strong> 22 years old, coming from a country in the middle of nowhere called Republic of Macedonia (I know you googled it :)). I arrived in Finland in May. My assignment in here is to work with people with intellectual disabilities, in an institution called \u2018Lyhty Ry\u2019 for 12 months in the \u2018Lato\u2019 department. I promised to myself that I will be someday in this country. Here I am (in the photo on the right)! Follow my adventures in the pearl of the North, Helsinki. 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