Lepsämä is where I am going to live in Finland. I don't really know much about Lepsämä- I regrettably have not asked my host family much about the place. This is what wikipedia says, of course, a reliable source (I am absolutely being sarcastic):

Lepsämä

Lepsämä is a village in the municipality ofNurmijärvi, Finland. There is acomprehensive school in Lepsämä. There also used to be a shop, a bank and a post office. The former prime minister of FinlandMatti Vanhanen lives in Lepsämä. Lepsämä has grown in population in recent few years and in 2005 it was the most rapidly growing village in Finland (in relation to population size).

That's all I know about what the place I will call home. It seems quite like my home- outside of a mid-size city (Helsinki is bigger than Buffalo, about twice the size), and a village- very much like East Aurora. From what my host mother has said, even the weather is similar:  30C in summer, tops, and -30 in the winter. So like 90F in the summer and 10F in winter. 

My Finnish friend Matti Pousi said that Finland doesn't really have an Autumn, that summer just kind of turns to Winter in a matter of a weeks. Buffalo does the same thing in Spring. Here was the first day of Spring in Elma (near East Aurora):

So if Finland lives up to its snowy reputation, it will be exactly what I am used to.