Hello everyone!
Now we have sended everyone CDs with pictures, videos and the concert recordings by mail. We hope you will enjoy them and remember our week together
Here below in an other entry we have publishing the recipes from the 'War of cooks'. Now you can go and cook your favorite recipe!
Have nice winter everyone, cool regards from Finland!
Friday 2 November 2007
Wednesday 31 October 2007
War of cooks - Resepies
ESTONIA
KAMA
Food needed:
kama (about 2 teaspoons per glass).
keefir (one glass per person).
sugar (about 2 teaspoons per glass).
Equipment needed:
a glass and a spoon
How to make Estonian kama?
EGGBUTTER
Food needed:
eggs (one egg per person).
butter (one big spoon per egg).
water.
salt.
BUTTERBREAD WITH KILU
butter,
kilu (easiest way to use prepared fish).
plate.
How to make butterbread with kilu?
GERMANY
Potato salad with nince meat
Potato salad
You need:
- 10 potatos (for 10 persons)
- vinegar
- sugar
- one apple
- two onions
- two gherkin
- 4 hand cooced eggs
- salt and pepper
- majonaise
Boile 10 potatos for 20 minutes. Then they have to cool down before you can pell them. Put them in a dish. Now you take 5 tea spoons of vinegar and two tea spoons of sugar and put it in the dish. Next cut one apple and twon onions into pieces and put it in the dish and mix it al. Now you cut two gherkin into pieces. Mix it also into the dish. Then are four hard cooked eggs following. Put some salt and pepper in it - how much you like. Mix it up and wait 30 minutes. After that put four table spoons majonaise in it and mix it again.
Instead of majonaise you can also take some vinegar and oil. You can also taste the salat with some other incredians, for example tomatoes, cheese, corn or what ever you want to taste.
Mince meat balls
You need:
- 800 g mince meat (for five persons)
- two onions
- two eggs
- salt and pepper
- one roll (or toast)
- oil
Put the meat in a dish. Cut two onions into pieces and put it also into the dish. Put in there two (unboiled) eggs, two tea spoons of salt, some pepper and one roll as well. Mix it up with your hands and form balls out of it. Put some oil in a pan and fry the balls in it for some minutes from both sides until they are well done.
Enjoy your meal
POLAND
- 40 eggs
- 4 kg of slim sausages
- 3 soup spoons of marjoram
- salt, pepper
FINLAND
Whipped Berry Pudding
Amount Measure
3 cups cranberry juice -- bottled or canned
6 tablespoons sugar
1/2 cup uncooked cream-of-wheat
(A finnish dessert)
In a 1 1/2 to 2 quart saucepan, bring the cranberry juice to a boil over moderate heat. While the juice boils, sprinkle in the sugar, a little at a time, and then slowly add the Cream-of-Wheat, stirring briskly with a wooden spoon. Reduce the heat and simmer for 6 to 8 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the mixture becomes a thick puree.
With a rubber spatula, transfer the puree from the saucepan to a large mixing bowl. Use an electric mixer for the next step. (Although it is possible to make this pudding with a wire wick, it is scarcely practical; an hour of vigorous whisking might be required.)
Beat with the mixer set a high speed for 10 to 15 minutes, or until the pudding has tripled in volume, is a delicate pink colour and is very light and fluffy.
Poor into a large bowl, or individual dessert bowl, and keep no longer than a few hours before serving at room temperature.
Note: If you wish to make this dessert with a nontrade juice such as apple, strawberry or raspberry, add a tablespoon of lemon juice.
ICELAND
Egg's ala Iceland
5 eggs
5 tomatoes
2 paprika
some ham
1-2 dl ripped cheese
Pinch of Oregano
Pinch of salt and pepper
Instructions
ITALY
Ragu's sauce
Ingredients: miced meat, herbs, carrots, celery, onions, garlic, tomato sauce, pasta, a spoonful of oil, a pinch of salt.
Procedure: mince the vegetables, put them and the oil in a pan and brown them. When they are browned, add the minced meat and brown it too, adding half a glass of red wine. Then add the tomato sauce, the herbs, for example rosemary or basil, then cook them for about half an hour. After that take another pan, fill it with water and put it on the stove, when it has boiled put the pinch of salt and the pasta and cook it for five minutes. Then put the pasta in a colander and poor the water in the sink. Finally put the pasta in the pan where you have cooked the ragú stir them and serve them hot.
LATVIA
Potato pancakes
Igreadients:
3 kg potatoes
Approximately 0,4 kg flour (watch the texture of the mixture)
5 eggs
1 tablespoon salt
- Peel the potatoes and grate them
- Try to take away-some of the potato juice, take away as much as you can.
- Ass the flour and eggs and salt, stir well. The mixture should not be hard, but not too liquids as well.
- Heat the frying pan, pour a little oil on it and make little pancakes of the mixture and bane till golden brown from both sides.
KAMA
Food needed:
kama (about 2 teaspoons per glass).
keefir (one glass per person).
sugar (about 2 teaspoons per glass).
Equipment needed:
a glass and a spoon
How to make Estonian kama?
- Put about 2 teaspoons sugar into a glass.
- Put about 2 teaspoons kama powder into a glass.
- Then put the glass almost full of keefir.
- Mix it all together.
- And taste it - mmmmmmmmm
EGGBUTTER
Food needed:
eggs (one egg per person).
butter (one big spoon per egg).
water.
salt.
Equipment needed:
How to make eggbutter?
- Take some water to a pot. Put eggs into the water.
- Put them on a stove to boil.
- Boil the eggs about 10 minutes until they get hard.
- After boiling the eggs afraid them with cold water (put the eggs into cold water, but not for long time, because egg should stay inside warm).
- Wrip the cover off and put the eggs into the bowl.
- Take a fork and mash the eggs in small pieces.
- Add butter and mix again.
- Taste it with salt.
BUTTERBREAD WITH KILU
Food needed:
butter,
kilu (easiest way to use prepared fish).
Equipment needed:
plate.
How to make butterbread with kilu?
- Take a slice of bread, put it on a plate.
- Take some butter and cover the slice of bread with it.
- Take a prepared kilu and put it onto the butterbread (you can also cut it before in smaller pieces).
- Onto the kilu put a slice of boiled egg or a eggbutter.
- Enjoy and HEAD ISU!
GERMANY
Potato salad with nince meat
Potato salad
You need:
- 10 potatos (for 10 persons)
- vinegar
- sugar
- one apple
- two onions
- two gherkin
- 4 hand cooced eggs
- salt and pepper
- majonaise
Boile 10 potatos for 20 minutes. Then they have to cool down before you can pell them. Put them in a dish. Now you take 5 tea spoons of vinegar and two tea spoons of sugar and put it in the dish. Next cut one apple and twon onions into pieces and put it in the dish and mix it al. Now you cut two gherkin into pieces. Mix it also into the dish. Then are four hard cooked eggs following. Put some salt and pepper in it - how much you like. Mix it up and wait 30 minutes. After that put four table spoons majonaise in it and mix it again.
Instead of majonaise you can also take some vinegar and oil. You can also taste the salat with some other incredians, for example tomatoes, cheese, corn or what ever you want to taste.
Mince meat balls
You need:
- 800 g mince meat (for five persons)
- two onions
- two eggs
- salt and pepper
- one roll (or toast)
- oil
Put the meat in a dish. Cut two onions into pieces and put it also into the dish. Put in there two (unboiled) eggs, two tea spoons of salt, some pepper and one roll as well. Mix it up with your hands and form balls out of it. Put some oil in a pan and fry the balls in it for some minutes from both sides until they are well done.
Enjoy your meal
POLAND
The recipe for traditional polish soup „Żurek”
Ingrendients :
- 40 eggs
- 4 kg of slim sausages
- 3 soup spoons of marjoram
- salt, pepper
- Put eggs to another pot full of cold water. Since the moment of boiling , boil for 8 min. Then take off , peel and cut into halfs.
- In the other pot full of 2.l. of water add the contents of baggs “Żurek” into and mix it very precisely. Boil 6 l. water in big pot. Pour 2 l. of żurek into this big pot, mix carefully and still boil.
- Peel sausages, cut into small pieces, put into the big pot, mix and still boil.
- Add three soup spoons of marjoram, mix and boil for at least 5 min.
- Add half egg into soup bowls and pour delicious żurek soup :)
- Add salt and pepper as much as needed for obtaining a tasty soup.
FINLAND
Whipped Berry Pudding
Amount Measure
3 cups cranberry juice -- bottled or canned
6 tablespoons sugar
1/2 cup uncooked cream-of-wheat
(A finnish dessert)
In a 1 1/2 to 2 quart saucepan, bring the cranberry juice to a boil over moderate heat. While the juice boils, sprinkle in the sugar, a little at a time, and then slowly add the Cream-of-Wheat, stirring briskly with a wooden spoon. Reduce the heat and simmer for 6 to 8 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the mixture becomes a thick puree.
With a rubber spatula, transfer the puree from the saucepan to a large mixing bowl. Use an electric mixer for the next step. (Although it is possible to make this pudding with a wire wick, it is scarcely practical; an hour of vigorous whisking might be required.)
Beat with the mixer set a high speed for 10 to 15 minutes, or until the pudding has tripled in volume, is a delicate pink colour and is very light and fluffy.
Poor into a large bowl, or individual dessert bowl, and keep no longer than a few hours before serving at room temperature.
Note: If you wish to make this dessert with a nontrade juice such as apple, strawberry or raspberry, add a tablespoon of lemon juice.
ICELAND
Egg's ala Iceland
5 eggs
5 tomatoes
2 paprika
some ham
1-2 dl ripped cheese
Pinch of Oregano
Pinch of salt and pepper
Instructions
- Rinse tomatoes and paprika under cold water.
- Cut tomato's and paprika into small pieces. Leave one tomato for decoration.
- Break eggs into bowl and stir until well mixed.
- Cut ham into little pieces.
- Heat up frying pan with oil on it.
- Pour eggs into pan when hot and stir gently.
- Add tomatoes, paprika and ham.
- Spread cheese over the whole thing.
- Fry until well done and cheese has melted
ITALY
Ragu's sauce
Ingredients: miced meat, herbs, carrots, celery, onions, garlic, tomato sauce, pasta, a spoonful of oil, a pinch of salt.
Procedure: mince the vegetables, put them and the oil in a pan and brown them. When they are browned, add the minced meat and brown it too, adding half a glass of red wine. Then add the tomato sauce, the herbs, for example rosemary or basil, then cook them for about half an hour. After that take another pan, fill it with water and put it on the stove, when it has boiled put the pinch of salt and the pasta and cook it for five minutes. Then put the pasta in a colander and poor the water in the sink. Finally put the pasta in the pan where you have cooked the ragú stir them and serve them hot.
LATVIA
Potato pancakes
Igreadients:
3 kg potatoes
Approximately 0,4 kg flour (watch the texture of the mixture)
5 eggs
1 tablespoon salt
- Peel the potatoes and grate them
- Try to take away-some of the potato juice, take away as much as you can.
- Ass the flour and eggs and salt, stir well. The mixture should not be hard, but not too liquids as well.
- Heat the frying pan, pour a little oil on it and make little pancakes of the mixture and bane till golden brown from both sides.
Sunday 22 July 2007
Day 7. Friday 20th of July
The day started as usually, we all met for breakfast. Exept Elfa the assistant who had worked so hard that she had to sleep in that morning. After that we had this great finnish folk dancing. We all had so much fun running around in groups, trying out this new dance and listening to music that we are used to that.
After that the band had their rehearsals and at two o'clock the final rehearsal for all the bands were held. There was much excitement in the air however we Icelanders came fashionably late since we power walked to town to buy some snacks for the day. We didn't bother packing like we were supposed to do instead we all just mingled and waited for the big event...
The concert of all concerts "let's get musical". The concert was just excellent, the highlight of the concert was when one of the spanich guys sang "let me entertain you". He had this excellent Robbie Williams voice. We Icelanders also did well on the concert were Gudfinnur and Eyþór played base in one of the bands, Keli played the guitar and Dagny was in one of the singing groups. The concert ended with this ultimate song "we are the champions" were the whole hall sang togetgher. After the concert we all went for dinner, which was actually the best one we had for the whole week. Then we had our final night. Gudfinnur went for a sauna were the theme was "we are the champions of the sauna". Eyþór went for the international mingling with the Italians. And Keli got all so Finnish.
That is what is so great about this camp. You meet people from all over Europe and bond and get e-mail addresses with hope that we will all see each other again. There wasn¨t much sleeping during the last night because everybody had so much to talk about. We did our packing half an hour before the bus went since everybody were so tired after the big night. Now we are on the way to the airport, everybody are quiet in the bus and seem to be a bit sad leaving Finland.
For the whole, the week was excellent. However, the Pori jazz festival was of course the main highlight. We would like to thank the Finnish leaders for their tremendous effort in organizing and hosting this week. In conclusion, the moral of the finnish leadership is ,,to get of your ass and do stuff" and it got through to all of the groups since everybody participated this week.
With love and kisses...... Dagny the doll, Elfa the yndislega, Eyþór the shark, Iron- Gudfinnur and least and not last Keli the sex machine.
- Icelandic group
After that the band had their rehearsals and at two o'clock the final rehearsal for all the bands were held. There was much excitement in the air however we Icelanders came fashionably late since we power walked to town to buy some snacks for the day. We didn't bother packing like we were supposed to do instead we all just mingled and waited for the big event...
The concert of all concerts "let's get musical". The concert was just excellent, the highlight of the concert was when one of the spanich guys sang "let me entertain you". He had this excellent Robbie Williams voice. We Icelanders also did well on the concert were Gudfinnur and Eyþór played base in one of the bands, Keli played the guitar and Dagny was in one of the singing groups. The concert ended with this ultimate song "we are the champions" were the whole hall sang togetgher. After the concert we all went for dinner, which was actually the best one we had for the whole week. Then we had our final night. Gudfinnur went for a sauna were the theme was "we are the champions of the sauna". Eyþór went for the international mingling with the Italians. And Keli got all so Finnish.
That is what is so great about this camp. You meet people from all over Europe and bond and get e-mail addresses with hope that we will all see each other again. There wasn¨t much sleeping during the last night because everybody had so much to talk about. We did our packing half an hour before the bus went since everybody were so tired after the big night. Now we are on the way to the airport, everybody are quiet in the bus and seem to be a bit sad leaving Finland.
For the whole, the week was excellent. However, the Pori jazz festival was of course the main highlight. We would like to thank the Finnish leaders for their tremendous effort in organizing and hosting this week. In conclusion, the moral of the finnish leadership is ,,to get of your ass and do stuff" and it got through to all of the groups since everybody participated this week.
With love and kisses...... Dagny the doll, Elfa the yndislega, Eyþór the shark, Iron- Gudfinnur and least and not last Keli the sex machine.
- Icelandic group
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
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
Day 5. Wednesday 18th of July
Tuesday evening was really exciting. Although everybody was exhausted after trip to Rauma, we enjoyed it and it was a fantastic experiance. After dinner we had a while to relax and those more ambitious individuals have practised their songs in music studio.
Then the staff have nicely surprised us - they prepared sweets and fruits as a late snack. The atmosphere was really great and friendly. There were over 70 people in two living rooms and the cammon porpuse was only one - to consume delicious cookies. After a while it started to rain and fortunately everybody was inside - but it did not matter for some of participant, who put on swim suit and ran into the rain across the campus.
After a few hours of sleeping the next day begun. Then we ate breakfest and had many workshops, as usually. To choose were for example; beat-boxing, making soap, computer music making and etc. And the bands continued to prepared songs for friday's concert.
- Polish group
Then the staff have nicely surprised us - they prepared sweets and fruits as a late snack. The atmosphere was really great and friendly. There were over 70 people in two living rooms and the cammon porpuse was only one - to consume delicious cookies. After a while it started to rain and fortunately everybody was inside - but it did not matter for some of participant, who put on swim suit and ran into the rain across the campus.
After a few hours of sleeping the next day begun. Then we ate breakfest and had many workshops, as usually. To choose were for example; beat-boxing, making soap, computer music making and etc. And the bands continued to prepared songs for friday's concert.
- Polish group
Day 4. Tuesday 17th of July
Yesterday evening when we had free time after dinner me, Janis and Maris went to the shop in Eurajoki center, which is 2km from the camp area. When.we got in to the shop, we accidentaly knocked down a tower of some products. After the we came back from the shop, we were totally exausted. But the night was young and soon we started the war of cooks. In the war of coocks, we (the Latvian group) were making polish traditional recipe for soup called "Zurek", and the polish peaple were making our recipe for potato pankakes. After the cooking there was an amazing presentation, where each country introduced the food they had made. This whole show was very interesting, and all the food was very delicious. After the show, we were listening to italian music, and that was wonderful.
We couldn't wait for the visit to Rauma this tuesday morning. And all we wanted came true! Rauma is very beautifull city. We were eating finnish icecream, and that was wonderful. After that we were swimming in the sea, and the water was very warm.
We have a similar town to Rauma in Latvia. It is called Ventspils. Janis was very happy because when he went to City-market with Maris, he found a CD that he have searching for last five years. in the mean time the girls bought lots of souvenires, Mumins, it's a finnish symbol. After that we went to McDonald´s and had a great meal. After all the action, we got back to our camping site in Eurajoki safely.
- The Latvian group
P.S. Great thanks to all camp organisators. You are the best!!!!!
We couldn't wait for the visit to Rauma this tuesday morning. And all we wanted came true! Rauma is very beautifull city. We were eating finnish icecream, and that was wonderful. After that we were swimming in the sea, and the water was very warm.
We have a similar town to Rauma in Latvia. It is called Ventspils. Janis was very happy because when he went to City-market with Maris, he found a CD that he have searching for last five years. in the mean time the girls bought lots of souvenires, Mumins, it's a finnish symbol. After that we went to McDonald´s and had a great meal. After all the action, we got back to our camping site in Eurajoki safely.
- The Latvian group
P.S. Great thanks to all camp organisators. You are the best!!!!!
Tuesday 17 July 2007
Day 3, Monday 16th of July
Yo party people. You have started to read the blog chapter written by Icemaster formally Jürgen Dengo, writen from stagements from his group's participants. Hopefully you find something interesting and lot’s of fun here.
The campfire.
So yesterday we gathered around the fire to eat pancakes and have some fun. We got it all what we were waiting for and even more. None of my group-members who I talked to had never tasted pancakes fried on fire. Although they were fried in a pan and tasted quite similar to those I am used to eat in Estonia, It was still a new and exciting experience.
Märtin told us about an axident, where oil caught fire in the pan. He added, that it was very cool to see.
As the evening progressed people started to sing accompanied by the guitar. It isn’t something strange, but it came so suddenly that people just noticed it.
It was pitty that the organizers decided to woosh out the campfire, because soon people started to feel cold and left. But the nightlife didn’t end yet.
The Spoosh.
Actuelly I don’t know when it happened, but there was a cool moment. Darkside – the man with hundred voices – was walking and making sounds. One of the sounds was a soundd, which could be only pronounced in humanic way as spoosh. When darkside made that sound, Terhi pronounced it in the humanic way. SPOOSH. She was actuelly the one to discover the imitation like this. So it became the trademark of darkside and a very cool moment to laugh about for a while.
The nightlife.
Although the campfire was wooshed away, people stayed still in the place for some time. We told jokes to each other, spoke about various subjects and had a happy chance to just swing together on an old and unreliable swing near the campfire place.
As I said, night came and people started to feel cold outside. So the last people. Me, Italians and Konrad left the campplace, but instead of going to the sleeping building I found polish people in front of the house. Swinging and having just fun. I took my place next to Radec and we made beatbox and had lot’s of funny things to discuss about. For example, what happens to the people when they go to tentists. I also played jaw harp and when I by an axident struck the string against my teeth, I was immediately recommended to go to the tentist. Then I left the polish guys and went inside. Marko uibo told me about Aleks and Gerth to be in the livingroom, I went there and the discussion lasted until 02:30, when we all decided to go to sleep.
Next morning.
While I struggled to wake up for 8:30 to go to eat, the other half of the day went really well. Everyone from the Estonian group agreed that todays workshops where very cool. People who went to individual singing told it to be very helpful and good lesson.
My morning started with independent band lesson. We Practiced one song and then had a little jam for the end. Those who went to sing for example Mari-liis told that singing gives positivity. Aleks liked very mutch the workshop of free music making, where they played beatbox and acoustic bass together and rapped on int.
People who went to the creative movements workshop told it to be a great experience. In sports workshop people played a new style of volleyball. They playd also some arrow game, but I didn’t manage to play it, because we didn’t have time.
The nale of the day was shiatsu, where were about 25 people in a group. Everyone wanted to know, what it is.
And now I’m here writing this blog and waiting for the war of cooks.
- Estonian gruop
The campfire.
So yesterday we gathered around the fire to eat pancakes and have some fun. We got it all what we were waiting for and even more. None of my group-members who I talked to had never tasted pancakes fried on fire. Although they were fried in a pan and tasted quite similar to those I am used to eat in Estonia, It was still a new and exciting experience.
Märtin told us about an axident, where oil caught fire in the pan. He added, that it was very cool to see.
As the evening progressed people started to sing accompanied by the guitar. It isn’t something strange, but it came so suddenly that people just noticed it.
It was pitty that the organizers decided to woosh out the campfire, because soon people started to feel cold and left. But the nightlife didn’t end yet.
The Spoosh.
Actuelly I don’t know when it happened, but there was a cool moment. Darkside – the man with hundred voices – was walking and making sounds. One of the sounds was a soundd, which could be only pronounced in humanic way as spoosh. When darkside made that sound, Terhi pronounced it in the humanic way. SPOOSH. She was actuelly the one to discover the imitation like this. So it became the trademark of darkside and a very cool moment to laugh about for a while.
The nightlife.
Although the campfire was wooshed away, people stayed still in the place for some time. We told jokes to each other, spoke about various subjects and had a happy chance to just swing together on an old and unreliable swing near the campfire place.
As I said, night came and people started to feel cold outside. So the last people. Me, Italians and Konrad left the campplace, but instead of going to the sleeping building I found polish people in front of the house. Swinging and having just fun. I took my place next to Radec and we made beatbox and had lot’s of funny things to discuss about. For example, what happens to the people when they go to tentists. I also played jaw harp and when I by an axident struck the string against my teeth, I was immediately recommended to go to the tentist. Then I left the polish guys and went inside. Marko uibo told me about Aleks and Gerth to be in the livingroom, I went there and the discussion lasted until 02:30, when we all decided to go to sleep.
Next morning.
While I struggled to wake up for 8:30 to go to eat, the other half of the day went really well. Everyone from the Estonian group agreed that todays workshops where very cool. People who went to individual singing told it to be very helpful and good lesson.
My morning started with independent band lesson. We Practiced one song and then had a little jam for the end. Those who went to sing for example Mari-liis told that singing gives positivity. Aleks liked very mutch the workshop of free music making, where they played beatbox and acoustic bass together and rapped on int.
People who went to the creative movements workshop told it to be a great experience. In sports workshop people played a new style of volleyball. They playd also some arrow game, but I didn’t manage to play it, because we didn’t have time.
The nale of the day was shiatsu, where were about 25 people in a group. Everyone wanted to know, what it is.
And now I’m here writing this blog and waiting for the war of cooks.
- Estonian gruop
Monday 16 July 2007
Day 2. Sunday 15th of July
Hello, we're the group from Italy. We'd like to tell you about our day here in Finland.
We started our day with breakfast at 8:30. And after breakfast we had introduction with all of the countries with playing games. The games really lightened the atmosphere and after a while we got to know a lot of people. And later we started to work with everybody in a small and noisy room playing instruments. We tried different kind of workshops for example sports, body percussion and oakinova. In the workshops we were all divided in into five groups. And in the songworkshop we learned a song. After lunch the workshop work continued and we met a lot of nice people. It has been an interesting day with lots to do and now we're waiting to meet up with everybody and baking some pancakes. Some of the things that we were doing today we have never done before so it challanged our minds and also it's a good way to meet people and a good icebreaker in future conversations that we will have with the people from the other countries.
We only had one problem, that was that our bags got lost in our flight (hree of us). It's of course really unconvenient but we hope they will be found soon.
Lots of love from Italy.P.S. Hope the sun will come tomorrow!
- Italian group
We started our day with breakfast at 8:30. And after breakfast we had introduction with all of the countries with playing games. The games really lightened the atmosphere and after a while we got to know a lot of people. And later we started to work with everybody in a small and noisy room playing instruments. We tried different kind of workshops for example sports, body percussion and oakinova. In the workshops we were all divided in into five groups. And in the songworkshop we learned a song. After lunch the workshop work continued and we met a lot of nice people. It has been an interesting day with lots to do and now we're waiting to meet up with everybody and baking some pancakes. Some of the things that we were doing today we have never done before so it challanged our minds and also it's a good way to meet people and a good icebreaker in future conversations that we will have with the people from the other countries.
We only had one problem, that was that our bags got lost in our flight (hree of us). It's of course really unconvenient but we hope they will be found soon.
Lots of love from Italy.P.S. Hope the sun will come tomorrow!
- Italian group
Day 1. Saturday 14th of July
Hei, its the arrivale day of our music camp and 'so far, so good¨', we are just little tired after travelling. The main group travelled together from Helsinki airport and enjoyed the driving of our excellent busdriver Mr. Ilpo.
After all participant's groups had arrivaved in different times, we had a dinner (which was an hour late). Then we found our rooms and settled in.
After having familiarised ourselves with our accommodation, we enjoyed Jutta and the other assistants and leaders laying out some basics of the functionality of the camp.
Jutta, to her usual style, familiarised us with a few new terms for certain things for the camp. For example, 'bland' means a group of musicians playing the same song together. It's a shame we forgot to take our Jutta-English-Jutta dictionaries with us.
The rest of the evening was spent in excitement waiting for the rest of the participants to arrive. Then we had evening snakks in the accommodation building and got to know few of the other participants.
- Finnish group
After all participant's groups had arrivaved in different times, we had a dinner (which was an hour late). Then we found our rooms and settled in.
After having familiarised ourselves with our accommodation, we enjoyed Jutta and the other assistants and leaders laying out some basics of the functionality of the camp.
Jutta, to her usual style, familiarised us with a few new terms for certain things for the camp. For example, 'bland' means a group of musicians playing the same song together. It's a shame we forgot to take our Jutta-English-Jutta dictionaries with us.
The rest of the evening was spent in excitement waiting for the rest of the participants to arrive. Then we had evening snakks in the accommodation building and got to know few of the other participants.
- Finnish group
Tuesday 12 June 2007
The camp letter
You are welcome to the Let's get musical-international camp held in Eurajoki, Finland. Here is some detailed information about the camp.
Date: 14.-21.7.2007
Location:
Camp will be held in Eurajoki Christian Folk High School which offers beautiful accommodation only 2, 5 kilometers away from Eurajoki center. Rooms, where participants stay, are for 2-3 people. Almost every room has own toilet and shower. Some rooms share toilet and shower. A tactile map of the camp area has been sent to your group leader. Activities and dining are held in other buildings and outdoors.
Eurajoki is very small village around 240km from Helsinki to the West coast. Nearest town, harbour town Rauma is c. 15 km away and Pori 37 km. During the camp we will visit both of towns. From Eurajoki you can find little shops for food, drinks etc. but not anything bigger.
Information about Finland:
Finland is said to be a country of thousand lakes and it its very true, because we have lot’s of beautiful lakes here and forests also. Finland's population is about 5, 2 million people. Currency here is Euro and we recommend you to take care of your money exchange in your home country or at the airport. You might have heard that Finland is a very cold country with snow and ice, especially in the winter, but in the summer our weather is usually quite warm. However the weather can change a lot from sunny and warm to cold and rainy, so you should be prepared with warm clothes and an umbrella.
Arrival to Finland:
On Monday (14.7.) we have transportation from the airport to Eurajoki by bus. Meeting place and time will be agreed with group leaders after we know your departure times. On Saturday (21.7.) we’ll have bus transportation back to airport.
Participants:
Countries participating on Let's get musical-camp are Finland, Estonia, Italy, Germany, Iceland, Latvia and Poland. We also have a couple participants from Spain. Official camp language is English. You’ll find a list of participants in the end of this letter.
Program:
As you know, the program at the camp is around music and you have chosen beforehand either singing or band. Participants will be divided into five bands, and each band has an opportunity to practice their performance every day. The program consists of voluntary workshops, where others can choose what they like to do, while others are practicing their performance. You’ll choose your workshops for the next day every evening. There are also different kinds of evening programs, international evening, open camp fire and an opportunity to go to Finnish sauna. At the last night we’ll organise concert where all the bands and singing groups will perform.
As a group each country should prepare beforehand some evening programs.
War of cooks: Think one traditional food recipe of your country. Something which is possible and quite easy for others to cook/make in about 1-1,5 hours. One evening we’ll have a war of cooks, where each country will get recipe of other country to make.
International evening: As a group think something for entertaining the others. It would be nice if it is something from your country.
PORI JAZZ
On Thursday 19.7. we will do day trip to Pori Jazz festival. Pori Jazz festival is very big music festival in Finland. There are lots of different concerts around Pori in that time. Some of them are with free entrance and some are chargeable. We have tickets for Kirjurinluoto Arena where artist on that day are Al Foster, Gilberto Gil, Natalie Cole and Paul Anka. Kirjurinluoto Arena is the main stage of the festival. The amphitheatre type of setting allows you to have a nice picnic while enjoying great music. There is a variety of services available, including large restaurant tents and many different stands offering food, drinks, clothing, and cds.
You can also visit other parts of Pori for example on Jazz Street, which is
alive day and night with thousands of people, many different bars and restaurants and live music. The Jazz Street offers a hundred different kiosks and stands. Half way through the Jazz Street near the walking bridge, you can find the Radio Nova Stage featuring several free concerts and acts every day.
In Pori Jazz we may have a possibility to meet guitar player Teemu Viinikainen, who will answer our questions and tell more about his career as musician. Read more about this person: http://www.teemuviinikainen.com/en_html/index.shtml
If you want to read more about Pori Jazz festival, visit http://www.porijazz.fi/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,75/
Things you should pack to your bags
- Passport
- Clothes, and also sport clothes including swimming suit and a towel. Remember to bring warm clothes along with the summer clothes.
- Your own hygiene supplies (toothbrush and -paste, soap, deodorant, sanitary towels etc.), personal medicines
- A little backpack and a plastic water bottle
- Extra money if you want to buy souveniers or other things (We offer you breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, program, trips and traveling costs at the camp)
- You can also take a camera, musical instruments and anything else you feel you need
Insurance:
Please make sure your insurance covers your trip, your stay in Finland and your luggage.
Information about the camp Blog:
Our camp blog which is written every day in camp can be read in www.nkl.fi/nuoret/ Web site will be opened July 1st. Each country share their responsibility of this blog.
We're looking forward to seeing you in July!
For further information, contact: Jutta Kivimäki +358 50 596 5022 (also during the camp) or jutta.kivimaki@nkl.fi
Date: 14.-21.7.2007
Location:
Camp will be held in Eurajoki Christian Folk High School which offers beautiful accommodation only 2, 5 kilometers away from Eurajoki center. Rooms, where participants stay, are for 2-3 people. Almost every room has own toilet and shower. Some rooms share toilet and shower. A tactile map of the camp area has been sent to your group leader. Activities and dining are held in other buildings and outdoors.
Eurajoki is very small village around 240km from Helsinki to the West coast. Nearest town, harbour town Rauma is c. 15 km away and Pori 37 km. During the camp we will visit both of towns. From Eurajoki you can find little shops for food, drinks etc. but not anything bigger.
Information about Finland:
Finland is said to be a country of thousand lakes and it its very true, because we have lot’s of beautiful lakes here and forests also. Finland's population is about 5, 2 million people. Currency here is Euro and we recommend you to take care of your money exchange in your home country or at the airport. You might have heard that Finland is a very cold country with snow and ice, especially in the winter, but in the summer our weather is usually quite warm. However the weather can change a lot from sunny and warm to cold and rainy, so you should be prepared with warm clothes and an umbrella.
Arrival to Finland:
On Monday (14.7.) we have transportation from the airport to Eurajoki by bus. Meeting place and time will be agreed with group leaders after we know your departure times. On Saturday (21.7.) we’ll have bus transportation back to airport.
Participants:
Countries participating on Let's get musical-camp are Finland, Estonia, Italy, Germany, Iceland, Latvia and Poland. We also have a couple participants from Spain. Official camp language is English. You’ll find a list of participants in the end of this letter.
Program:
As you know, the program at the camp is around music and you have chosen beforehand either singing or band. Participants will be divided into five bands, and each band has an opportunity to practice their performance every day. The program consists of voluntary workshops, where others can choose what they like to do, while others are practicing their performance. You’ll choose your workshops for the next day every evening. There are also different kinds of evening programs, international evening, open camp fire and an opportunity to go to Finnish sauna. At the last night we’ll organise concert where all the bands and singing groups will perform.
As a group each country should prepare beforehand some evening programs.
War of cooks: Think one traditional food recipe of your country. Something which is possible and quite easy for others to cook/make in about 1-1,5 hours. One evening we’ll have a war of cooks, where each country will get recipe of other country to make.
International evening: As a group think something for entertaining the others. It would be nice if it is something from your country.
PORI JAZZ
On Thursday 19.7. we will do day trip to Pori Jazz festival. Pori Jazz festival is very big music festival in Finland. There are lots of different concerts around Pori in that time. Some of them are with free entrance and some are chargeable. We have tickets for Kirjurinluoto Arena where artist on that day are Al Foster, Gilberto Gil, Natalie Cole and Paul Anka. Kirjurinluoto Arena is the main stage of the festival. The amphitheatre type of setting allows you to have a nice picnic while enjoying great music. There is a variety of services available, including large restaurant tents and many different stands offering food, drinks, clothing, and cds.
You can also visit other parts of Pori for example on Jazz Street, which is
alive day and night with thousands of people, many different bars and restaurants and live music. The Jazz Street offers a hundred different kiosks and stands. Half way through the Jazz Street near the walking bridge, you can find the Radio Nova Stage featuring several free concerts and acts every day.
In Pori Jazz we may have a possibility to meet guitar player Teemu Viinikainen, who will answer our questions and tell more about his career as musician. Read more about this person: http://www.teemuviinikainen.com/en_html/index.shtml
If you want to read more about Pori Jazz festival, visit http://www.porijazz.fi/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,75/
Things you should pack to your bags
- Passport
- Clothes, and also sport clothes including swimming suit and a towel. Remember to bring warm clothes along with the summer clothes.
- Your own hygiene supplies (toothbrush and -paste, soap, deodorant, sanitary towels etc.), personal medicines
- A little backpack and a plastic water bottle
- Extra money if you want to buy souveniers or other things (We offer you breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, program, trips and traveling costs at the camp)
- You can also take a camera, musical instruments and anything else you feel you need
Insurance:
Please make sure your insurance covers your trip, your stay in Finland and your luggage.
Information about the camp Blog:
Our camp blog which is written every day in camp can be read in www.nkl.fi/nuoret/ Web site will be opened July 1st. Each country share their responsibility of this blog.
We're looking forward to seeing you in July!
For further information, contact: Jutta Kivimäki +358 50 596 5022 (also during the camp) or jutta.kivimaki@nkl.fi
Monday 11 June 2007
Up and runing
Month to go and here we have the Music camp's blogsite. Here can one find information about the camp and related things.
During the camp every partner group will write web-diary for one day, also we hope to put some nice pictures here.
If partner groups want, their webpage addresses can be included on the linklist and the same for participant's personal webpages or blogs.
During the camp every partner group will write web-diary for one day, also we hope to put some nice pictures here.
If partner groups want, their webpage addresses can be included on the linklist and the same for participant's personal webpages or blogs.
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