Independence Day

Cannot help thinking about a certain Hollywood production when typing that title. Though I have never seen the actual movie...Today is Finland's independence day and the country celebrates its 90th birthday. Cool, eh?

Last year we took a ride in Millennium Eye with Suvi and toasted with some cheap Mojitos but this year I'm celebrating my granma's bday (she's turning 70 on Saturday) and maybe even watch some Linnan juhlat (President's reception) from telly since I'm not invited, lol.

The reason I started to write this post in the first place was that I took a citizenship test made by the biggest Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat (http://www.hs.fi/english/) and wasn't too surprised to find out I would not qualify as a citizen. At the moment you don't have to pass any kind of test to get a Finnish passport but it's a common practice in many European countries such as Great Britain, Netherlands and Denmark. Questions have something to do with the country's history, legislation and everyday things like an emergency number but it's very likely even the country's own citizens couldn't answer them properly. In Finland, some of the MPs took the test and there was several of them who couldn't get the nationality ;P

So, go on. Do the test, if you dare! The first one is the Finnish one (only in Finnish, sorry folks) and the second the British one from BBC's site...

http://www2.hs.fi/extrat/hsfi/omaelama/kansalaisuustesti/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4099770.stm