for the first time we attend the fifth semi annual two thousand and eleven finland summer festival i wonder what it is they win fifty if you break you go back to twenty five so it makes somebody do a little math calculations while they're playing ok yeah i guess we'll see how how and they have had numbers pretty spread out so i don't know so as they got to scoring or keeping track of their how was this game played exactly like you just count like if you knock one pin down it's worth whatever the number is written on there if you're not this together and you can find the website up polyglot games dot com ok well thank you very much for taking us a little bit about the game and so we understand a little better no problem you will see where this is a little booklet describing all the people well we've been doing for many years and you know i was the editor for this work was actually my name's nancy says she assumed i'm not finished so that your heart finlandia the music they were singing in there today is just wonderful and so you know we always try to protect produce chances always that's our bought a lot of bees and by himself created all the different combinations to make these networks in there somewhere over here on the table so we and and also here on this side so he unfortunately he was one of our major dancers has been from the beginning of the he passed away last year and we miss him very much i've been down for about three years or star and it's it's been a lot of fun we do performances and really easy to learn very gentle and we're looking for any dancer so come along and united finish kalama brothers and sisters lodge number eleven here in seattle what does that lodge do is a fraternal organization that was began a hundred seven years ago mostly to support the immigrant men who came to this country looking for a better life in gave them a sense of family and also helped them if they were injured or sick there were some benefits too in terms of some actual financial benefits for membership again and looking out for the immigrant when they first came to us in years to know it nowadays we meet on a regular basis we participate in festivals like this one we tradition still it is a constant struggle there's a big struggle because young finnish families and folks here in the seattle area are mostly living on the east side and so it's not convenient for them to meet over here it's difficult for them to give up a sunday afternoon to you we've got a growing family raising a family so it is a struggle for us to all we participate again in events like this kind of keep we support financially some of those organizations so we have a connection with the younger fans but it is a challenge and a struggle for want them to know that we are the the only finnish choir in the seattle area we are looking for new members constantly we have a lot of fun and no need to speak spanish she learned through damp and then carving the design into it by hand much very interesting photo and i have with me this woman she is a swedish speaking fan the picture that you that you photographed first was a picture taken in one thousand nine hundred when after they had been until you write colorado a backup digress just a moment and when they got there my grandfather found a farm that he wanted to buy land and it was grandmother said you know still america he called and that's why we're here today because of my myself we went to finland actually to find my grand are fine my grandmother as a young girl and i didn't know her name and so we had to go to the church rectory and find i here they get a national newsletter general chapter foundation probably a link on that one y finished studies here and there and you can actually if you'd like to learn more about all things finish including the folk dance groups or chorus or pretty much anything please visit fins north west dot com that's  i n and s and w dot com and the sixth semiannual summer festival will be in the summer of two thousand and thirteen likely august and in the meantime you could visit finland summer festival dot org and seize a few pictures from the festival please be sure to visit my website adventure t v dot briefless dot com for a gala updates information and links and as always thank you for watching adventure t cultural festivals