Day 6. Thursday 19th of July

Wednesday - international evening
At 7 o'clock we were starting. We were in for an exciting four hours of live presentation from all national teams. At first Estonia playing some traditional songs was first to go cheering the crouds with a coupe of nostaligic country songs and a rapped performance by "the Dark Side". After that Italy got us all moving and thinking by presenting various tasks associated with their country. Most noticably each nation was aquired to name an Italien city, resulting in an astonishing high number of names been mentioned. Poland entered the stage with a Polonaise, a their national dance. A quiz followed together with practising the song "Hej sokoly" and a silent-telephone-game. The Icelandics were trying to convince that their jokes are actually funny bz translating them into English. To top this off they have also included a couple of typical bar songs from the island. Dancing was key in the presentation of our host country Finnland. Similarly Letvia made us dance in couples and presented some lovely country songs. As some of the audience was already falling asleep since we had pass 10 o'clock Germany had the privilege of finishing the program: Geography, Football and "Jodling" were the three displinces of the one and only "Eurajoki 2007 championship", won by the Polish. After the numerous presentations the leaders served us delicious hotdogs.

Thursday.
First we have to say that it was a very impressive day. After breakfast the bands and singing groups had their practice time. It was the first time when both singing groups combined their talents. Before lunch we had the possibility to play the kantele again while Riikka answered questions about singing. At 2 o'clock we departed to Pori Jazz Festival. At first, our hopes for nice wheater were disappointed: It was raining steadily until 5 o'clock. For this reasons Mikko and Hjalti prepared some pretty huge plastic bags to save our clothes from wettness.
Because of the huuge mass it was easy to get lost... as the time passed more and more fans seemed to accumulate in front of the stage and big screen. The first artist was the former drummer of Miles Davis Al Foster beginning at 3 pm. The next one was the Latin American Gilberto Gil who has written "No woman no cry". The line-up continued with Nathalie Cole the daughter of the famous Ned "King" Cole. Apart from various songs representing different stages of her carrier we were excited the most by a duett with her father who joined us via video-conferencing from high above. As charming as back in the fifties the headliner Paul Anka was the final star of the evening. Starting out with his greatest hit "Diana" he thrilled the audience not only with his own songs but also by performing swing-cover versions of famous rock classics by artists such as Jon Bon Jovi, Buddy Holy, Nirvana and of course the great Frank Sinatra. With the song "Twist and shout" the amazing program ended with a lot of noise also made by the impressed audience at about 10 o'clock, one hour later as originally planned. At the end of this day we fell asleep with the jazz music still playing in our minds.
- German group