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Eurovision song contest 2007! toukokuu 12, 2007

Aihe: Stories of life — Eija @ 10:49 ip

Jyväskylä +5 degrees Celsius, partly cloudy.
Sunrise 4:28 am, sunset 10:02 pm.

Now that I was writing the sunrise and sunset times, I remembered something I do everyday: I wake up at the same time with the sun! And I don’t do it in purpose! You can imagine that it isn’t always that nice.

But what I really wanted to write about is Eurovision Song Contest 2007. It’s actually happening right now! Eurovision song contest 2007 in Finland! You don’t maybe know this, but Finnish people are crazy about Eurovision. It truly sounds strange, but that the way it is. Last year we finally got what we have always been hoping for: We won the contest! :) What make the winning little bit funny, is that our candidate, Lordi divided opinions beforehand, but after the won they have raised to the whole nations heroes.

Here is a picture of Lordi (From Wikipedia):
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Even though in the Western Europe the Eurovision song contest is considered quite funny and ridiculous, in Eastern Europe people take the contest really seriously. Although there always are those who make fun with it! And I don’t blame them! Good example of this is Ukraine’s candidate:D

Picture of Ukraine’s candidate (From Yle’s official Eurovision pages):
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It’s really unique to follow the contest which is held in Finland. Of course I’m hoping that Finnish candidate, Hanna is going to win, but somehow I doubt it. My other favourites are Georgia’s and Sweden’s candidates, Sopho and The Ark. Let’s see how the contest ends… :)

Finland’s Hanna (From Yle’s official Eurovision pages):
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Georgia’s Sopho (From Yle’s official Eurovision pages):
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Sweden’s The Ark (From Yle’s official Eurovision pages):
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