Lucia och Jul

Lucia: Lucia is a tradition where santa lucia the saint of light or something comes and spreads light to Sweden since it is really dark this time of year. So on December 13th Lots of people go to church and then you sit in the dark, church bells ring and you hear some very beautiful music. Then Lucia appears walking down the aisle wearing a white robe, red sash, and candles in her hair, with the choir behind her. Its very beautiful. The songs are so wonderful and the whole presentation is so eerie, but really cool. I got to take part in Lucia with my rotary club, so one lunch i dressed up as lucia candles and all, with 6 girls singing behind me. It was really cool and everyone was telling me it was jette fint! very nice. I went to 3 different lucia torgs and they were all magnificent. Me as Lucia

December has been busy.

Jul!! Christmas is celebrated very different here. First off its all celebrated on christmas eve. So i woke up and 'tomten' (santa) came, he left clues around the house leading to the presents, so that was different, but fun. so then we opened gifts. Then we ate breakfast. we had julgröt, which is rice porridge or something. Its very good. They hide an almond in it and if you find the almond you will marry next year. I got the almond, so i guess i am getting married soon :). Then we chilled and Fikad! SO many good cakes and so much chocolate and good glögg and everything, so good, i probably gained like 5 pounds from eating so much. Then after fika we watched Kalle Anka! Kalle Anka is the swedish name for donald duck and hes more popular than mickey mouse! But thats a tradition for like 50 years here and you watch it and sing along and it was so fun!! i am going to start watching it every christmas eve at 3.00! Then when that was done we did the gift exchange. You buy 2 gifts and put them in a lottery and write a poem about them. so that was cool, i would have liked it better if i knew what the poems meant, but it was still fun. I got some tomten and a fly swatter, yeah it is random hehehe. Then we just hung out and then ate Jul bord! so good, really good food, like ham and potatoes and sill (not so good) salads and so much more! it was really good. yeah that was basically christmas. It was strange though waking up on christmas though and it just being another day. Santa comes here usually, after kalle anka and he knocks on the door and asks if there is any good children at home? Then yeah thats santa, not he comes in the chimney, so it was different. God Jul!

Jul

Jul Bord
Gifts
Kalle Anka
Fika
Breakfast