Finland+Group+3

Hai, my name is Verneri, and im 15. My hobby is fencing, and I've had it as a hobby for almost 10 years now. We don't have polar bears here. :o The national sport is hockey (I think), but I've never seen any point in it, since we suck at it anyway. Finland is maybe the worst hockey country ever :(. We live i´n the southern part of Finland, and so we have the warmest climate in Finland, which is still pretty cold. I have a sister, a bit younger than me, and her name is dkfjgkaghigiuveerakahfuygy5udfawk (her name is hidden in there).

My name is Rainer and im 15 years old. I practise martial arts and play the guitar when I feel like it. I spend a lot of my time on a computer and I'm pretty interested in them. Because my parents are divorced, I have a lot of "half-siblings". My little sister and brother have the same mother as me, but a different father. I live with my dad, stepmother, my sister and my stepsister. I live in Espoo but my mom lives in Joensuu, which is about 300 to 400 kilometres away.

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We had the world record in overclocking computers :o We just recently had the worlds best result in 3Dmark2006 test We have lapland but you don't. :D We eat bears for breakfast. We kill them with our bare hands. We have more eurovision wins than you.

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Latitude is the principal influence on Finland's climate. Because of Finland's northern location, winter is the longest season. On the average, winter lasts 105 to 120 days in the archipelago and 180 to 220 days in Lapland. This means that southern portions of the country are snow-covered about three to four months of the year and the northern, about seven months. The long winter causes about half of the annual 500 to 600 millimetres (20 to 24 in) of precipitation in the north to fall as snow. Precipitation in the south amounts to about 600 to 700 millimetres (24 to 28 in) annually. Like that of the north, it occurs all through the year, though not so much of it is snow.

The highest ever recorded temperature is 35.9 °C (96.6 °F) (Turku, July 1914). The lowest, −51.5 °C (−61 °F) (Kittilä, January 1999). The annual middle temperature is relatively high in the southwestern part of the country (5.0–7.5 °C), with quite mild winters and warm summers, and low in the northeastern part of Lapland (0 – −4 °C).

Finnish Words. hei = Hi makkara = sausage Mitäköhän on ruokana? = I wonder whats for dinner ruoka = food satunnainen = random eläin = animal musiikki = music Kanada = Cananda koira = a dog kissa = a cat tietokone = computer peli = THE game Ulkomaat = Foreign Countries Ihminen = Human