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I'm not happy to be in Canada at the moment. I missed Finland's second ice-hockey world championship celebrations, because I'm stuck here in Vancouver. Meh. The whole country has gone crazy, because of this championship and I really would've like to have been a part of it. Last time they won was 16 years ago when I was 15, so I was too young to go celebrate, and now I'm on the other side of the world. But that's life eh?

I even had trouble when I tried to watch the game over here. I thought they'd show it on tv, but when it was time for the game to start, there was NOTHING on tv. I was totally pissed off and I was swearing like a drunken sailor. Tried to watch the game on internet - I knew where I could watch it, but so did other Finns abroad. The site refused to work for an hour, so i missed the first period of the game. Luckily nothing happened in the game. When i finally got to login on the website, the audio and video were quite crap and it kept stopping every couple of minutes, which lead to me swearing even more. I got to see the rest of the game, but it wasn't as good a quality as i had hoped. But who cares about that now - WE BLOODY WON THE ICE-HOCKEY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL AGAINST OUR ARCH ENEMY SWEDEN 6-1!!!! SUCK ON THAT SWEDEN!!!

This is as big of a deal to us Finns as it would be to english people to win the World Cup in football. So you can imagine how I feel. Here are some pics so you can see what this win means to Finns

100 000 people celebrating in Helsinki (www.iltalehti.fi)

(www.iltasanomat.fi)

 

 

 Video of the team and adoring fans... and the President of Finland

People seriously partied all Sunday night/Monday morning and Monday evening and... are probably still celebrating. Lucky bastards :D

In other news... nothing much to report. Leading a quiet life before running off to Cuba next week. We did try out the sauna here in Finnish Home last Saturday, but that's about it. Rock n Roll baby!! ;)