Taivas

I was on my flight from Amsterdam to Helsinki and it was my first trip to Finland. There was a Finnish girl next to me and we were talking about the Finnish culture, language and other stuffs ;)

There was when I learned my first Finnish word over the clouds. I asked her to tell me a word in Finnish. She looked out of the airplane window, where there were all sporadic pure clouds on the blue background. Then she took a sip at her red wine and said “Taivas”.

I thought that Taivas means sky but she translate it paradise. However, after a few months living in Finland I learned there is just one word for both sky and paradise.