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Hey there!

Here are some facts about me:

I'm half Swedish-speaking and half Finnish-speaking Finn, My mother spoke Swedish to me when I grew up and my Dad spoke Finnish... I went to the only Swedish-speaking school in my City -Tammerfors- which is a completely Finnish-speaking City in Finland. I was born in Jakobstad, on the West-Coast of Finland, in a very Swedish-speaking area.

I'm a mormon. I was baptized when I was eight. For the first 20 years of my life I lived in Tampere = Tammerfors and the ward was Finnish. It was a big change in Church when in 2001 I moved to Sweden (the Stockholm-area) and everything in Church was suddenly in Swedish :)

In January 2001 I started my University studies at the University of Stockholm and my major was already then: English <3 Later I also studied Finnish (as a native tongue)...

When I went to school in Tammerfors I was bullied from First Grade until the first grade in Senior High School -that means 10 years. In the summer of 1997 I became ill and when I tried to go back to school I could not do it, I was too psychotic. So I got admitted to a mental hospital in the city of Nokia, to a hospital named Pitkäniemi. There I stayed for EIGHT months. Then I recovered pretty well and went back to school and graduated from high school, one year later than my first class that I belonged to.My new class was much nicer. No one dared to bully me after the previous class literally put me in the hospital :P

I've become more aware of the lack of action by the adults in the situation. WHY did they not stop the bullies? The teachers did nothing. But I guess they have to pay in their own way for their lack of action. They will be haunted forever by my story -the girl who was bullied for ten years in their school and finally went crazy -literally crazy. They must feel a horrible guilt. I understand that.

This is all for tonight :)