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Mengan - Meng Sun | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 5 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=264371] | 2008-04-08 16:53:59
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Finland was a province and then a grand duchy under Sweden from the 12th to the 19th centuries and an autonomous grand duchy of Russia after 1809. It won its complete independence in 1917. During World War II, it was able to successfully defend its freedom and resist invasions by the Soviet Union - albeit with some loss of territory. In the subsequent half century, the Finns made a remarkable transformation from a farm/forest economy to a diversified modern industrial economy; per capita income is now on par with Western Europe. As a member of the European Union, Finland was the only Nordic state to join the euro system at its initiation in January 1999. To be updated
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När Viking Line bestämde sig att locka kunder att storspendera på deras imponerade fartyg med 11 däck och 2500 hyttplatser med casino, pub, bar, sauna, minimart etc, plus en invardrar-arbetskraft med uzbeker och afganer, allt för att klara av den tufffa konkurrensen, räknade de nog inte med en sak: snåla folk som jag. Som deras nyblivna medlem fick jag åka gratis och t.o.m. en 4persons hytt då jag reste ensam. Alltså, genom att ha mig som medlem så har Viking Line tjänat in sammanlagt 0 kronor, plus förlorat inkomster från 3 andra kunder. Det kändes nästan lite kriminellt när jag låg [View Full Entry]
By MacKenzie H
April 6th 2008
April 6th 2008
Easter Basket, Boat Trip, and District Conference
Europe » Finland » Ostrobothnia » Vaasa
Hey everyone. Wow, it's really been awhile. Sorry, I guess I've just been busy. It's really hard to find time to write in here these days. Between school, basketball, and hanging out with my friends I feel like I'm always busy. Anyway, here it goes. On March 11th I went to the theater and saw a really cool show. It was called "Kvinna på halvtid" (Part-Time Woman). It was what is known as physical theater which is where there is more movement and sort of dancing type of stuff than talking. At first I thought it was going to be really [View Full Entry]
MacKenzie H - MacKenzie Hovermale | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 4 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=268954] | 2008-04-27 08:55:11
By goodmorningfinland
April 4th 2008
April 4th 2008
District Conference!
Europe » Finland » Southwest Finland » Naantali
This past weekend was our rotary district conference in Turku! We have 23 exchange students in our district, but Ellen was in Germany so we had 22 of us! Rick came over from Aland Friday night and stayed over with me at the Ahti's house. The next morning Lapa, our treasure, and Ossi picked us up and drove us over to the ICT building in Turku for breakfast and a meeting at 9am! All the exchange kids met there, and after eating we got a couple hours free time in the autitorium where we were supervised by two awesome swedish speaking [View Full Entry]
goodmorningfinland - Stephanie VonAncken | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 24 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=271442] | 2008-04-30 09:37:08
Huomenta Kokemäeltä... Viimeiseen asti on pakattu, sekä laukkuja, että tänne muutettuja tavaroita kaappeihin. Kahdeksalta on sovittu että Pappa tulee hakemaan meitä. Mummu pukee täällä Lauria, Henkka voimistelee lattialla, Juha pistää viimeisiä tavaroita talteen. Se on menoa sitten. [View Full Entry]
Merilokki - J & T & L & H | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=261829] | 2008-04-06 21:28:27
By goodmorningfinland
March 30th 2008
March 30th 2008
Ama and I around Naantali and Muumiworld!
Europe » Finland » Southwest Finland » Naantali
Ama and I walked around A LOT this past week and visited Muumiworld! We also went all around the harbor and Hanna Aiti found a guided tour for us around the harbor and old town!!! It was a lot of fun, and I LEARNED A LOT!!! :) [View Full Entry]
goodmorningfinland - Stephanie VonAncken | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 69 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=269692] | 2008-04-24 18:31:08
By goodmorningfinland
March 28th 2008
March 28th 2008
Picnic Cruise to Aland Island!
Europe » Finland » Åland Islands » Mariehamn
Today Ama, Hanna aiti and I went on a Viking Line picnic cruise to Aland island (aka, half way to stockholm!). We boarded the nine story ship (same one from my trip to Stockhold for the vanhojen ristely) in the Turku harbor at 8 am. We put our jackets up then found a nice place to sit on the sixth floor. We talked and bought steph a kiddie cup with a light stick inside, my very own plastic cup AND some sukulaku! (the only salmiaki like thing i actually LOVE!). We walked around and went shopping at Tax Free and some [View Full Entry]
goodmorningfinland - Stephanie VonAncken | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 77 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=273589] | 2008-05-07 17:54:27
Tässä vaan harjoittelen... Haluaisin jonkun www. osoitteen taimiten googlatessa löytyy tää meidän tuleva reissu. Siis kun toisilla on ainakin tälle joku nimi... vaikka the reissu... niin miten sellaisen saa???? Ei kun yritystä ja kokeilua. [View Full Entry]
Macit matkustaa - jaana meurman | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 2 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=260286] | 2008-03-27 12:34:25
It's cold. Very cold. Too cold. It's windy. And it makes it even more cold. To make things worse, one of the biggest snow storms of the year, supposedly, hits the country. Yippee! So it's cold here in Finland. And everybody is saying to us, it's been the so warm! And the sad thing about it is that they're right. I read in the Finnish weather forecast's webpage that it has been the warmest winter ever. The thing is, March, is supposed to be the beginning of Spring. Not the beginning of late winter... Oh well. One has to cope with [View Full Entry]
Jayblank - Jani and Carolina | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 4 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=260452] | 2008-03-27 22:48:01
By goodmorningfinland
March 26th 2008
March 26th 2008
New Mexico Evening at Kala-Trappi
Europe » Finland » Southwest Finland » Naantali
Today Ama and I spent from 10:30 am- 3pm cooking at the summer pizza kitchen at Kala-Trappi (my rotary restaurant). Ama had brought an ENTIRE suitcase full of tortillas, cans of whole green chilies, red chilie powder, green chili powder, guac, and lots of herbs. As she cooked I was her sue chef, running outside in the crazy blizzard to the main restaurant and getting whatever she needed! They provided us with all the meat, vegetables and cheese we needed! We had fabulous tunes blasting from my ipod all day and had a LOT of fun dancing and coooking, and testing [View Full Entry]
goodmorningfinland - Stephanie VonAncken | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 30 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=268212] | 2008-04-20 11:24:47
Today we went to Laitila where Hanna Aiti's parents live! We first went to Hanna Aiti's mothers house where we greeted the sunlight outside, looked at her flowers starting to grow through the snow, looked at old photographs, ate chocolate eggs, and had a wonderfully FINNISH meal! Potatoes, Lamb, Silli (herring), eggs and salad! Then we drove over to Hanna Aiti's fathers house where Kari and Marja-terttu served us a beautiful display of all sorts of desserts, including pasha...(ama's favourite!). I bird watched from the living room window with some sweet sweet binocs. and completed one out o [View Full Entry]
goodmorningfinland - Stephanie VonAncken | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 25 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=268294] | 2008-04-24 17:36:19