Laskiainen 2006!

Laskiainen 2006. The day of Finnish culture. Suomi Flags are flown on buildings, standing proud in the wintry air. 28 Feb 2006. Kalevala Day - Finnish national epic Day.

As i groggily woke up on my free day Tuesday, Marika suddenly messaged me and asked me whether i was going to Laskiainen. I wanted to go but given 'all the 2001 homework', i decided to give it a miss but upon further coaxing and the added incentive that she was driving :) (thx a lot btw) , i decided why not.. i jioed the other sg pple but they all muggers so i asked bob to come along too..

The place was near yenleng's house in Helsinki. It was the Kaivopuisto Park
You can see hordes of students from the whole Helsinki in their coloured overalls ( representing their sch and dept) all armed with sledges and funny structures to slide down the slope.














I came out of this unscathed but the next slide i went over a hump and got a sore butt.

Look at the different contraceptions used to go down. There was this competition judging the most creative but we missed it. There were also games like go round the stick 10 times and run to drink a beer.. We had a bun(with jam) break and some hot juice ( the lifesaver cos when u sledge ur jeans all wet lor) We met Aya, the Dutch gal who 'picked me up' at the sauna, Olli, Heikki, Nano n his spaniards there too.


Anyway here are the pics from the mexican dinner we had. On sat, we were supposed to do our assignment then once dinner time came, roberto asked us to go his place for dinner. So he took out dry meat.. pork floss with no taste and mixed wif 9 eggs and tomatos. i also brought my soya bean(from asian market) for them to try.. As opposed to Xavier who tried our pork floss and said ITS TOO SWEET... anyway the meal is called huevos machacados , scrambled eggs mixed with dry, shredded beef. After that, instead of completing our work, he went to watch munich instead!! in xavier's words, ' these crazy mexicans'