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Greetings!

Finland is known to be the homeland of Father Christmas, who lives in Lapland in Korvatunturi (Ear Fjeld). But the weather here in Finland isn't much of a winter wonderland. It's time of polar darkness, which means that sun is up only few hours per day, if even that. And now when there's no snow, it's very dark. My home town got only thirteen hours of sunlight in November, otherwise it was dark and in the middle of the day maybe grey.


Every day at 5.45 my bell wokes me up - time to go to gym. I've tried my best to cheer things up; bright blue knit cap, pink shorts and violet shirt was todays outfit. But oh, it is hard to be bubbly and active when it's seems like eternal night would have taken over. Ten days it gets even darker but then it's winter solstice and it's starts getting brighter finally.

Now I have to keep my energy levels up and still try to keep away from sugar (not been so great at that). I've got a big reason to shape me up to the point of perfection, but that's a secret 'till my next post.

Hey, by the way, it's Santa Lucia's day in two days - 13.12! It's one of my favorite traditional days in December.


See you in a bit, hopefully when there's snowy enough to ski!