Finns and fun

Sami and Elsis met me at Helsinki airport and took me to the huge World Village Festival, where we found some more hc-members longing to go to Kiljava for the big HC-party. They had had two wonderful days already, arranged by Elsis and some more members - I missed that part of the Helsinki Meeting because of Portugal.
Wow, what a crowd of crazy and friendly people we were! (You can see some of us on the pic, even better when you click it, and a lot more on the website.) They were coming from all over Finland and other countries, too, including India (well known Caesar aka Purplesage). It was great to meet my chat-friends Viivi, Tanjak and Pulina, and to find so many new and interesting friends.
The place was lovely, as well. Enough space for indoor and outdoor activities, tents were build up, the sauna was always nice and full, some guys even dared to swim. The sun never went down, and we enjoyed chatting and singing through the night until morning and time for (indian) coffee.
Around noon we went back to Sami's place, and instead of taking a nap I went online to chat a bit in HC. What a surprise to find Dan there, a guy from the States studying Phonetics in Finland, who kind of got lost in the early hours of the day at the party. We're gonna meet up in Helsinki tomorrow and continue our talks on languages and linguistics, and he'll show me around the capital. :-)
But for now it's a lazy afternoon and some sleep - finally.

23:30 h: After a short nap it was chattime again. Pulina and Viivi were sorry we hadn't spend more time together, so we arranged for some more meetings. Sami was sitting in his room and chatting with us, as well, and Theriel was online, too, so it was perfect to arrange our meetings. Monday at 7 p.m. under the balls (whereever that might be), and Viivi and her boyfriend who live in Riihimäki just round the corner from Sami's cute little house came over for dinner. We checked the content of the fridge, and waffles it was. We had a lovely evening eating and chatting - in real life, for a change.