It all began a long time ago...

Once there was a Finnish girl with a weird fascination for the neighbouring monarchy called Sweden. She wanted to take a closer look and decided to spend one semester as an exchange student in Malmö, located in Southern Sweden. She met some great people, had the time of her life, and thought it was a city she could consider living in. During her studies in Malmö högskola, she attended a lecture about comics and flipped through a magazine that contained a comics reportage about the comics festival of her hometown, Kemi. Despite hardly ever visiting the festival, for a moment she felt like home.

Four years later, by a twist of fate, she returned to Malmö as a representative of that festival. She was quite happy with her life, studying in a university and living in a city she loved. But during that weekend in Malmö, she was introduced to a long-haired Danish comics artist - and nothing would ever be the same again.

Now it's been more than six months of travelling back and forth about once a month, spending sleepless nights talking on Skype, maxing out our phone bills and longing, longing, longing. But there's light at the end of the tunnel: in less than ten days, I'll be flying to Copenhagen to spend my summer in Malmö. It'll be a whole new experience in so many ways, and I'm both super-thrilled and a bit frightened. This blog will be a way for me to reflect on things, and for you to follow my adventure in the Swedish society. Välkommen!

But first, there are so many things to take care of. The least of which isn't booking the flights. Is it even possible to book a one-way flight these days?