Saturday 27 April 2019

April 2019 - Finland

This is the final break I have, as I have finished 5 years of med school and am slated to start work officially in May. Not looking forward to my hospital nor posting, but what's decided is decided and I just have to work through it. I decided on Finland because I happened to come across a tweet from Finnish women's hockey national team goalie Noora Raty to USA goalie about seeing her in Finland. And then I realised that the semi finals and finals of the IIHF women's hockey world championships would be on 13th and 14th April, literally the weekend after my last day of school (aka the day I signed my contract T_T). And it could be one of my only chances to see these women's hockey heroes play live, and for a chance to watch a USA-Canada game live (which didn't happen, but more on this later). So I convinced my friend to go with me to Finland, and with just 3 weeks left, we booked the flight tickets on Finnair, costing us about $1.4k+ per person (youths get a discount!) from Sg to Helsinki, and another $400+ from Helsinki to Rovaniemi. We also booked an airbnb for a 5 night stay in Helsinki, and the beautiful Arctic Light Hotel for a 2 night stay in Rovaniemi.