Christmas!

After 2 months of Christmas parties, the time has finally come. Danish people actually celebrate the birth of Christ on the 24th of December, and then have two or three 'Christmas Days' afterwards. I think they actually call them first Christmas day, second Christmas day, ect.

Today I will get to open my presents after dinner, which we are having and my host father's mom's house. In order to earn our presents, however, we must first dance and sing songs around the Christmas tree... how strange!

I have been out of school since Wednesday. On Wednesday, we had a 'fairwell' assembly with the whole school, and my class went on stage and sang a christmas song together. It was horrible! We have to be the worst singers EVER! Still, everyone else got to have a laugh, so it wasn't totally worthless. Afterwards we had another 'Friday Cafe' only, like, on Wednesday... that was nice since most of my class attended.

Through out this month, there have been many parties, that I guess I have not told you about, since I've hardly posted since I moved houses, but here is what has occured.

On the 9th, we had a 'Jule Frokost' or Christmas Lunch with only my class. We ate dinner, danced, sang, and played games until 1:30 in the morning. One thing we ate was Risalámande, which is this rice stuff with cream and nuts. There is one whole nut in the bowl of risalámande and if you find it you get a present. No one found it this night, because we only ate about 1/4 of the bowl. We also played a game with dice to get gifts. Everyone had brought 2 small gifts and we placed them on the tables. Dice went around and if you rolled a 6 you could take a present. I didn't get anything! After many hours of partying, everyone started to go home. I was staying over with my friend Lena that night so I wouldn't have to bother with a taxi, but it was a while until her dad would come get us, so I helped clean up. In cleaning up, I got to take forgotten gifts! Yay! It wasn't much, just a deck of cards and some candy, but hey, these things are important!

On the 10th and 11th I went with my host family to visit their family members, and the same things were done there! We ate the rice stuff, couldn't find the nut, and played the dice game! At one house we had æbleskewer instead of rice stuff, but it seems that these are big traditions.

December 16th brought about the Christmas Gym Fest. There was a band, and lots of drunk people that I knew. I also brought my host sister Amelie, so the night was a blast.

And now it is Christmas Eve!! (sorry this post is so random and all over the place... I'm a bit spacey today)