Gran Torino

I watched Clint Eastwood's movie "Gran Torino". I actually liked it! I've always thought that all Eastwood movies are just old western. So here is the thing. Walt Kowalski is a war veteran. In the beginning of the movie he is at his wives funeral.
I liked Walt as a person. He is cynical, but he's also really humouristic person.


Thao is young, asian man. He lives in Walt's neighbour. Thao is pretty shy person. He doesn't really stand up for his rights. His cousin's gang is terrorizing him all the time on the movie. 


Sue is Thao's sister and later Walts good friend. She is really strong person.


The movie made me feel anger and sorrow, but also joy and good feelings.


Overall, really great movie with great and interesting plot.

Around a world

I have been visited only a few countries in my life. These tours have been the holidays with my parents and some school tours. Also I go to every year somewhere in the Finland. Oulu and Helsinki are my most visited places. But now  I'm going to tell you my trips of abroad. 

First I have visited several times in northern Norway. We rent with my parent's a camper and we drove it all the time. We visited in Utsjoki, Alta, Hammerfest and Vesisaari. I see a lot of landscapes and i fell in love that place. It was so beautiful and fresh. Everywhere I go I see mountains, green and water. On the beach in Arctic Ocean I collected some seashells and dried craps. 

On second tour to Norway we drive on our own car. We visited in Kilpisjärvi, Tromsso, Narvik, Lofoten and Haparanda. We spent our nights in cheap cottages and in some hotels in port. The trip is better than my first trip to Norway, but most of time I have been fever. So that doesn't be nice... There I again saw amazing landscapes and we also fishing in Narvik. But we didn't catch anything. Here is some pictures from Norway and a top of one mountain, Saana in Kilpisjärvi.

But the best trip ever was a one school trip. I was on eight grade when our drama teacher told to us that we do a one project on abroad. So we had to do one play with Polish, Turkish, German and Italian people. I and other 4 student's go to Germany and there we started to work with it. I spend whole week in host family, who's daughter was a part of project too. In days we do that play and in evening we spent time with other Finnish and German people. The tour was the best trip ever, because I really have to speak English and i got a new friends! I also saw Germany otherwise. It was so friendly country and everything was so cheap. And i don't have to pay anything, because school cost our airline tickets and we sleep in our families. On that trip I visited in Kempen, Düsseldorf and Köln. 

Yeah, chocolate fountain

I have been visited in Tallinna in Estonia too. But that trip was a one big disappointment so I don't want to tell you anything about that. 

Chocolate pieces (Mokkapalat)

Today i made some chocolate pieces and here is very easy recipe for that! :) 

First i take some ingredients and put them on the table. 

I need these thing for base:

200g butter

4 egs

3dl sugar

6dl flour

4rkl cocoa 

4tl baking powder

4tl vanilla sugar

2dl milk

And frosting: 

50g butter

0,5dl coffee

4dl icing sugar

2rkl cocoa

2tl vanilla sugar

And then let's start baking!

1. Put the oven to heat up 200 celsius. 

2. Melt the butter. Cool it. 

3. Froth the egs and sugar

4. Mix together flours, baking powder, cocoa and vanilla sugar. 

5. Add the milk and melted fat to the egg-sugarmixture. Mix. Add the dry ingredients through a sieve and mix. 

6. Pour the batter into a greased or lined baking dish. Bake in the oven about 15-20 minutes. 

7. Prepare the frosting. Melt the butter. Add melted fat, coffee, powdered sugar, cocoa and vanilla. Mix.

8. Spread frosting on cooled slightly over the base. You can sprinkle on the top example sprinkles. 

Then just enjoy and eat them all! :) 

Music

I like music very much. There is something magical. Listening to music relaxes and lets you forget the unpleasant things. I listen to music every evening and sports activities. I don't have a favorite style of music. Anything goes expect classical and hard heavy metal. But i like classical to some extent, but i get headaches for heavy metal. 

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Some cultures have their own personal music. I think that Finland does not have one. It is varied in different places. Maybe in the north Saamis have their own music. In Finland some people like rap, some pop, but i think we don't have one big common music style what separates us from other countries. 

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Hannu Hautala

Hannu Hautala was born in 1941 in Töysä, and he has been living in Kuusamo since 1979. 
Hannu Hautala's jorney from a village shopkeeper's son for an internationally reknowned nature photographer was a long and hard. 
Hannu Hautala's interest about photography started a very young age. He always dreamed of a camera of his own.
In the mid-fifties Hannu bought his first own camera with money he earned by picking lingonberries. These days there was not much literature on photography, which means that he have to learn everything by himself.
Hannu Hautala was always been happy about fact that his parents didin't force him to go to secondary school. He said that:
  - All of the time I would have had to sit at school and learn nothing, I was          able to wander in nature. 


Hannu Hautala left his home at eighteen year old. Because his parents sent him to in a gardening school in Pyhäranta. In 1960, after school, Hannu go to the army an there he worked on a tank mechanic. 
After work for army he started to working for a dirtmoving company as a catepillar driver. He said that:
 - I was making money hand over foot, and in weekends I took a taxi home to Tuuri to photograph, that way the working week wasn't so bad. 
Fate intervened in Hannu's career, when he fell of the machine and broke his shinbone. 


Then Hannu met his wife Irma, who was working as an office manager in a gardening company in Helsinki. They have short relationship and then they have Christmas weddings in 1971. 


From the mid-eighties to the 21st century, Hannu's books have been published also in Swedish, English, French, Japanese, Russian and Italian. 
The new nature photography centre in Kuusamo dedicated to his lifework keeps him busy in addition to his photography, which is still a priority of his life. 
 - For a photographer, every minute spent away from nature is a wasted minute. 

Some photography's about and from Hannu Hautala:

Independence Day

Independence Day was in 6. December 2011. 
My Independence Day was so normal. I didin't do anything special. In our family we don't have some traditional things what we do then. In Independence Day we have castle ball here in Finland. It's in our presidential palace. My dad watch that one classic finnish movie 'Unknown soldier' every Independence Day. I actually haven't seen it... In Independence Day we also eat sautéed reindeer. I like it so much! :)