Pictures from Kristin

These are my favourite pictures from our camp. I made these on the second day. I just love Finnish nature...

Love you and miss you all!

Take care,

K.

i wanna thankyouuuu

I want to thank you all wonderful campers! This camp was something amazing. This was my first camp as one of the leaders and you guys made it the best experience of my life. Congra!

I hope that you are all now safe home. Or anyway safe somewhere.. Although I wish more that you would still all be here in Finland. I think that all agree that the last day was reeeally hard. But 'cause it was so hard to say goodbyes, it means that we became close to each other. I couldn't stop crying in two days. But now when I look all the lovely and funny pictures and videos we have, they bring also a smile to my face.

We have to continue keeping in touch so our new friendships will last. You can all write here to the blog whatever you want. I love you all, and I miss you! I don't know how I can keep living without you.. Maybe I'll figure that out someday.. Please, write here to the blog!

There's no words to describe what I feel so I just say: I love you sooo much!!!!
KIITOS!!! <3

Linne
(Finland)

Tuesday the 5th

Our fifth day at the camp was dedicated to forest. First we of course took our instruments and practised for the concert, but after lunch we went orientiering. We got a short lesson about reading and using a map. We dived into the forest in eight groups. There was a roup in the forest that we could follow. Each group got an "emit" to control their time. We saw some Finnish forest and even found blackberries!
The exhausted athletes left for a "savusauna" (smoke sauna) five kilometers from Särsjärvi. This time boys got the honour to go to sauna first. It was a dark place with a huge "kiuas" and black walls. When boys were in sauna, girls saw some Finnish plants, trees and berries and the other way around. After girls had also enjoyed the "löyly", we saw our dinner digged out from ground. It was rubber roast, rosvopaisti in Finnish. The food was delicious: moose, kanttarelli-sauce, potatoes, lingonberry jam and salats. We ate a LOT!
After singing "We wanna thank you" to our hosts, the bus took us back to our camp house.

Day 4: Monday, 4. Aug.

Again and again we woke up with a wonderful whistle =Pp (before going back home one of the leaders might be killed for this.) However, there was also music=) After a ''herkullinen'' breakfast, we started to play again in order to be ready for the concert. Each group (tried to) practise their songs hard...

We ate salmon for lunch and Iina (our perfect group leader) didn't like it.

Then, the canoeing, (we don't know if it is correct spelling) a very wet experience, was the programme for the afternoon.We enjoyed a lot, but our arms are still hurting=) We need our hands for playing our instruments, but they are still insisting about making us do sports.

For dinner we sang the "food song" that we sing before every meal. (oh please... someone should change it!!!) We cannot stand it anymore=) We ate rice with chicken and carrot salad with pineapple and "punajuuri".

Girls sauna started at 6.30 pm. Hahaha we enjoyed a lot (sauna-lake-sauna....like an endless procedure=Pp) Our lovely leaders hit us with "vihta" without mercy=) The whole sauna room was full of leaves when we left to let the boys in =P

We had last camp fire full of sadness and "tikkupulla". Linne, one of the leaders, and some of us came back inside to prepare hot tea for others, because it was freezing though fire.

Even if we were completely tired, we danced and sang and played and laughed and ... till one o'clock.

Then of course we slept like babies for waking up the next day with full of energy.

Photos pt.1

Here's some photos from sunday. It was a great day by the way. :)



-jyri-



(the author of these photos)

Day 3: Sunday, 3. Aug.

After a musical wake-up call and raising the flag of Finnland, we had some breakfast.
At 9:30 we started rehearsing for the concert on Friday, and had a lot of fun, there was music everywhere. We ate for lunch some chicken legs with rice(a big compliment for the kitchen!!!). Until the tea time at 3:00, we had free time, which we passed with playing soccer, or just chatting, or some of us even went to sleep(hmm, let us guess why...).

Then the big COG (Campmusica Olympic Games) started.Everything was perfectly organised. We had a lot of official guests, in person: the mayor of Padasjoki, Heikki Jaakkola, Pirkka Ahola, from the Lions Club and Susanna Paavola with her husband. We took part in the disciplines like throwing a gumboot as far as possible, playing Darts and Mölkky, tearing ropes and throwing raw eggs. Everyone enjoyed the games and we laughed a lot.
At the end of the COG the mayor of Padasjoki hold a little speech, and he offered us a nice present: A pin of Padasjoki and some chocolate mints(mmhhh...)

After the dinner, the girls could go first to the sauna (today 90 minutes!!!), followed by the boys, and we enjoyed being together. We took down the flag, and went to the bonfire, to grill delicious sausages. The evening faded out with chatting, laughing, making music and dancing at midnight...

Saturday 02.08.2008

It was a beautiful sunshine morning when one of the group leaders blew my ears out with their whistles. After the wake up call all of us proceeded outside to raise the proud standing Finland flag, then we proceeded to breakfast, ate something and then me and my band members hit the basement and played something. It was that day when we started our progran for the concert, than played a little more, had fun (just for information it's always fun in the music camp) and lunch I really don't remember what we had for lunch, but nevertheless it was delicious.

After lunch we had some physical activities, and played some games.

Then we stayed inside and had some conversations and told some jokes.

Of course we play all the time but it's all fun.

The nights are joyful because everyone is sitting arround and just talking, total silence is at 1 a.m.