Finland+Group+5

 We are Kaisa and Tuuli from Finland. We are both ninth graders in Mankkaa school and we both live in Espoo. Kaisa is sixteen and Tuuli is fifteen. We are girls. Kaisa’s hobbies are dancing, scouting and playing the piano. Kaisa has a dog called Poju. Kaisa has a mom, dad and a little brother. Tuuli’s hobbies are sailing, riding and she also plays the piano. Tuuli has a mom, a dad and a older sister.
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 __Finnish Easter foods:__

Easter is a big festive season in Finland. Markets are full of chocolate Easter eggs and mämmi. Mämmi is a traditional Finnish Easter dessert. It's dark brown and looks very interesting. It is made of water, malt and ryeflour. It doesn't maybe look very delicious but it is really good with cream and lots of sugar. Finnish people also eat lamb with mint jelly and paskha at Easter. Paskha is a dessert which is made of butter, sugar, sour cream, eggs, raisin, almonds, vanilla and candied fruits. Mämmi

Paskha

Do you have any easter traditions in Canada?

Word list: Easter = pääsiäinen lamb = lammas a dessert = jälkiruoka  **__FINLAND__**

There are 5.3 million people living in Finland. That isn't very much because the area of Finland is quite big, 338.145 square kilometers (130.558 square miles). The population density of Finland is 17.4 people per square kilometer. Most of Finnish people live in southern Finland, where the three biggest cities, Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa are located. Helsinki is the capital city of Finland. The population of Helsinki is about 600 000. Other big cities in Finland are Tampere, Oulu and Turku. Lapland is north to Oulu.

 

Word list: Finland = Suomi population = väkiluku suoth = etelä capital city = pääkaupunki 
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Word list: Europe = Eurooppa **__CLIMATE OF FINLAND__**

The weather in Finland is very varied. In the summer the weather can be either hot (30 Celsius degrees) and sunny or mild (10 Celsius degrees) and rainy. But usually the weather is quite warm, about 20 Celsius degrees. In the winter it used to be cold but nowadays the weather is often very mild and wet and rainy, especially in the south. But there's usually always snow in Lapland in the winter. Last winter it was cold and we had lots of snow, even in Helsinki. Finland is a very northern country but the Gulf stream warms up the weather. Yli means over and alle means less than. The map on the right shows you the average temperature in Finland. Those numbers are Celsius degrees. The amp on the left shows you the average rainfall of a year. Those numbers are millimetres.

Word list: climate = ilmasto weather = sää cold = kylmä warm = lämmin summer = kesä winter = talvi wet = märkä snow = lumi the Gulf stream = Golf virta average temperature = keskilämpötila rainfall = sademäärä As you can probably see we use letters Ä and Ö very much.

 A picture from Lapland. A picture of the Helsinki cathedral