Yesterday, the highlight for most Finns was on. It was itsenäisyyspäivä, or independance day for the non-Finns among us. While during the day nothing really special happens, because the fun starts in the evening, I was looking forward to this day. Because me and my friends would make a special dish from our home countries. So we had a Dutch starter, a Finnish main course (it is their day after all) a German side dish and a Swiss desert. The combination of the dishes was perfect, although we didn't knew that before. Between the preparing and the actual dinner, we went all together to sauna. As is a custom on this day. (and every other average day in Finland.)
The highlight of this day and for most Finns of the year, is the presidential reception and in particular the red carpet ceremony. In this ceremony, the president shakes hands with al the 2000+ guests. This whole thing is so boring that is really fascinating to see. The only thing they do is shaking hands and walk away and then wait till everyone is in, meanwhile they broadcast the whole handshaking thing. All man where costumes, all women dresses. While the African woman were awesome as always, most Finns wore black dresses. While some Finns felt like a tomatoe and dresses herself up to a tomatoe. Also a woman felt like she was still a chick, so she wore a black dress with a giant chicken. This was the highlight of the whole thing in my opinion, for the rest it was plain boring.
Even the afterparty was boring, were some Finnish artists sang some songs there were a lot of discussion about the dresses. Unfortunelly, not with the chickendress. After the afterparty, we shut down the tv and all 5 of us went into living mosaic mode on the couch. While we lay there for more then 90 min, changing positions in our living mosaic piece.
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