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Santa Claus Village photos cont.. (Dec. 2007)
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Santa’s Office, Rovaniemi, Finland (12/22/07)
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Welcome to Santa Claus Village!
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Tonight we went to Santa Claus Village (Joulupukki Pajakylä) in Rovaniemi, Finland to watch Santa’s send off for Christmas gift delivery. I took lots of video clips of the crowd (huge with lots of kids), the stage events going on and the introduction of Santa Claus (or Joulupukki for you Finns). It really was a surreal experience. Kind of like Rovaniemi, Finland’s own version of the Macy’s Day parade in New York but bigger in a way- the real Santa Claus…there were so many kids. I can’t imagine sitting front row when I was a kid to watch Santa Claus ride off in his sleigh.
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So, I’m back in Rovaniemi, Finland for a few weeks and plan on dropping a few blog posts. I have been EXTREMELY busy this semester with school and as those dozen of you who read this blog can attest to, the blog has been pretty bare of anything the past few months. I’m on a little break so hopefully I can find time to post some videos, photos, and recaps AND, I plan on incorporating as much Finnish in my posts as possible to help me practice between courses and use all this newfound language I have acquired over the past few months…Don’t know the ‘past-tense’ yet so it should be interesting what I will be able to say.
So far, it is DARK but, very little snow which was very surprising! The whole ground is usually covered by this point in the year and there is tons of grass showing through everywhere….can anyone say global warming?!? Kind of weird. The four hours of daylight haven’t changed much though- the sun goes up around 10-11am and I would say it goes down right around 3pm…yeah, tad scary. And when the sun is ‘up’ yeah it isn’t really up. Looks like sunrise/sunset the whole time… Below you can see what 10am looks like outside of Matti’s parent’s window…Good thing all I’m really doing is reading and watching movies 
Great weather for relaxing!
Well, off to do…something. Celebrating a graduation today with family arriving so busy day…look for more posts (hopefully) later!
Hei hei!
-Angela
