Tomas Sle­sar, a 37-year-old Slo­va­kian native, has been liv­ing in Oulu for 14 years. Com­ing from the north­ern parts of Slo­va­kia, Tomas found him­self grap­pling with the unfa­mil­iar­i­ty of Finnish sum­mers and how the sun nev­er went down and strug­gled with sleep­ing at first.