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	<title>The Erasmus Experience</title>
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		<title>Sami Yoik at the Reindeer Farm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The second of my edited Lapland videos, this is a Sami woman who's singing a traditional Yoik at the Reindeer Farm near Inari. Thanks to Matze for the audio track, the microphone on my camera isn't the best.

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		<link>http://www.jackhiggins.ie/finland/?p=293</link>
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		<title>Lapland Movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As promised, i've put together my video clips from the Lapland trip into this short movie. Myself, Irada, Matze and Mario are featured, most of the clips are from my camera, some from Matze's too.

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		<link>http://www.jackhiggins.ie/finland/?p=290</link>
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		<title>Last day in Finland &#8211; saying goodbye</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The worst thing about Erasmus is that it has to come to an end eventually. Today is my last full day in Finland, and after having an amazing time here for the last four months, I have to say goodbye to all the wonderful friends i've made, pack my things and get ready to go.
It's [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jackhiggins.ie/finland/?p=288</link>
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		<title>Christmas time in Helsinki &#8211; Colder than your freezer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had my final exam yesterday morning, in Java and J2ME. Apart from a few small parts of assignments I have left to do, college is over for the year! To celebrate, last night we had the very last Timpurinkujan dinner of 2009:

Estonian Black Sausage, Cabbage and Jam
Korean rice and spicy sauce with Beef and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jackhiggins.ie/finland/?p=280</link>
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		<title>7 Days of Night, and now back to frosty Helsinki</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The final day of the Lapland trip (Saturday) was spent at the Saariselka outdoor centre, southwest of Inari, up in the higher hills of lapland. We started off the morning with an hour-long snowmobile safari - it was incredible! There's no feeling better than speeding along at full throttle on a huge snowmobile, high in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jackhiggins.ie/finland/?p=264</link>
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		<title>Survival Course</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today´s course was how to survive in the Lappish winter, I dont think we would last very long outside if left to our own devices but we had a great time all the same. Morning started off with a lecture on general winter topics, outdoor survival and so on, after which we set off on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jackhiggins.ie/finland/?p=261</link>
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		<title>Ice and Fire at the top of Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last few days have been absolutely fantastic! Lapland really is incredible, we´ve done so much in such a short time. The main highlights so far have been the Reindeer Farm, the Ice Lake swimming, and the trip to the Arctic Ocean, all of which were absolutely brilliant and i´d reccomend to anyone to try! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jackhiggins.ie/finland/?p=254</link>
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		<title>Visiting Santa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our first day in Lapland - we met Santa at his office on the arctic circle, just north of Rovaniemi, the capital of Lapland! The place looked amazing, very seasonal, and on the way into Santa´s office there were lots of pictures of famous celebrities, such as Tarja Halonen and Conan O´Brien, who have come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jackhiggins.ie/finland/?p=251</link>
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		<title>Finnish Independence Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December 6th is Finland's Independence Day, (in 1917 from Russia) and to celebrate it every year the students of all the local universities have a parade along the main streets of the city centre. It's a really impressive spectacle, everyone has flaming torches, the students are all wearing their graduation caps, and carrying their society [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jackhiggins.ie/finland/?p=244</link>
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		<title>BlackJack released!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's my pleasure to announce the release of BlackJack version 1, the game that myself, Olivier and Mischa have been working on for our C++ project for the past month or two. It works for Mac or PC, and you can see a screenshot below. It was developed using the QT framework from Nokia, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jackhiggins.ie/finland/?p=232</link>
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