Reliving history

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A group of 24 Finnish medical students and engineers, accompanied by four professionals in their fields finally completed a trip of a lifetime. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, who made the trip 78 years earlier, the crew of 28 arrived in the DR on 1 January 2008 aboard the Goleta Helena. The trip took three months and according to Finnish Vice consul Pasi Kapanen the trip was longer than the one taken by Christopher Columbus. Finnish officials were so excited about the crew's arrival in the DR that Finnish ambassador Mikko Pyhala flew from Caracas, Venezuela, where the embassy is located, to meet the crew at Santo Domingo's Don Diego dock. Pyhala also thanked Higher Education, Science and Technology (SEESCyT) Minister Ligia Amada Melo de Cardona for her help in developing a scholarship program for Dominican students to study in Finland.

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