the land of metal

Guys, today is the independence day of Finland! It has been exactly 93 years today, that our glorious little country won the war against the mighty Russia {well, Soviet Union}. And yes, it makes me very proud indeed. Our itsy pitsy country with population only four million at the time, won against one of the greatest powers ever known to men. We're just that cool.

So in the spirit of today, I wanted to share some nifty little facts about Finland

1. in Finnish, Finland is called Suomi
2. there is more lakes in Finland then the rest of the world has combined! {no joke. thousands and thousands of lake}
3. Armi Kuusela was the first person ever to win Miss Universe
4. Nokia is our pride and joy {even if I love my iphone...shh!} but did you know that they first started with rain boots and car tires? {I have these ones but in orange}
5. Almost every good pair of scissors come from here too {which, you kow, is interesting if you sew} Fiskars does other thigs too, like ax and tree prunners. But who cares
6. Finnish is thee hardest language in the world. No joke. Forget about Chinese! We will mush the words together and our monotonic speech will put you to sleep
7. We have a woman president, Tarja Halonen {yeah, the one from Conan O'Brien. don't judge}
8. Our prime minister Mari Kiviniemi is also a woman
9. Like Moomins? ours {the Swedes will try to tell you otherwise. all lies}
10. Finlands educational system has been ranked the best in the world for the last fifty years. We're all just a bunch of nerds
11. The sun never sets during summer, which is reeeally cool. But thean again, it's pitch black in the winter time. Boo
12. the Finlandia Hymn was done by Finnish {duh} composer Jean Sibelius {check it. it is Magnificent}
13. Any literature fans out there? Kalevala, Finland's national Epic is the most epical epic ever! The whole thing is writen in poem form and is like this thick. Like THIS THICK. {it has been tricky to translate into any other language, because every single line in it, is constucted from eight syllapyls. Everysingleone}
14. We do pretty bad ask music. HIM, The Rasmus, Finntroll, Nightwish, Apocalyptica {my favourite from these. looove the cellos}, Children of Bodom, ect. Of course this might be because we suck at any other kind of music... yeeah. That was embarrassing
15. Santa is from Finland! {let's all go see the Rare Exports. it looks fun}

Right now we are about to make some yummy food with moma and I can't wait to have all that deliciousness in my tummy. After that we will spen the rest of the night watching {and maliciously criticizing the dresses he he} the independency ball at the presidential castle.
I hope you will all enjoy this beautiful December day as well!

kiss kiss