You can say that the Christmas in Norway starts at the first of December. Because that’s when we start the “countdown” to the 24th of December, we start to decorate the streets with Christmas trees and Christmas decorations. We also start to bake Christmas cookies, hang up the Christmas calendar (a special calendar that starts at the 1st of December and counts down to the 24th of December, and every day you have to open the calendar and there you get a little gift, usually chocolate or candy). Also almost all of the TV canals start to send Christmas cartoons.
Then at the 23 of December the whole family is usually together, and we decorate the Christmas tree, and put all the presents under it.
Then on the 24th of December, we celebrate Christmas. We usually start the day by going to church (not everybody does that) and then go home and watch Christmas cartoons, and eat the candy from our Christmas stockings. At lunch it’s normal to eat a traditional Norwegian porridge. And we sometimes have a little game that is called “find the almond in the porridge”. We put only one almond in the porridge before serving the porridge, and then the person who get’s the almond in the porridge, wins a marzipan pig. It’s kind of an old tradition, so not many people really know why we do this.
Then at around 6 o’clock we have the traditional Christmas dinner, it usually consist of salted and dried rib of mutton, potatoes, sausages, mashed potatoes, and foxberry jam.
Then after the dinner we open all the presents, and then we have dessert. And the rest of the evening we have fun, enjoying the company of our family, and maybe watch a little bit TV. (it’s always a lot of Christmas cartoons and series on TV at Christmas, and a lot of them are series they send every Christmas, so it is kind of a tradition to watch some of them).
Then at the 23 of December the whole family is usually together, and we decorate the Christmas tree, and put all the presents under it.
Then on the 24th of December, we celebrate Christmas. We usually start the day by going to church (not everybody does that) and then go home and watch Christmas cartoons, and eat the candy from our Christmas stockings. At lunch it’s normal to eat a traditional Norwegian porridge. And we sometimes have a little game that is called “find the almond in the porridge”. We put only one almond in the porridge before serving the porridge, and then the person who get’s the almond in the porridge, wins a marzipan pig. It’s kind of an old tradition, so not many people really know why we do this.
Then at around 6 o’clock we have the traditional Christmas dinner, it usually consist of salted and dried rib of mutton, potatoes, sausages, mashed potatoes, and foxberry jam.
Then after the dinner we open all the presents, and then we have dessert. And the rest of the evening we have fun, enjoying the company of our family, and maybe watch a little bit TV. (it’s always a lot of Christmas cartoons and series on TV at Christmas, and a lot of them are series they send every Christmas, so it is kind of a tradition to watch some of them).
Ingvild Slevolden, 12º A, aluna do Programa Intercultura
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