Christmas lunches
In Denmark almost every workplace has a Christmas lunch and a lot of them serve traditional danish Christmas food. And that means pickled herring, eel, salmon, ham, porkroast and Ris a la Mande. We also went to a family Christmas lunch with greatgrandma with the entire family and to one after Christmas with the other side of the family. The first time she tried almost everything - I could see it in her eyes that there were things she was to polite to spit out again.
Somehow she also got the impression that we eat æbleskiver at every Christmas gathering we go to - well almost true.
She claims she gained several pounds in december ... that is what it is like to be an exchangestudent.
Church
Most Danes go to church at the following events: Baptisms, Confirmations, weddings and funerals. Occasionally some go to church at Christmas - per her request we went too. She liked it but commented on how different it was - before the service there was a lot of talking - she thought that was strange :).
I love Christmas and it has been a joy to share our Christmas traditions with her. Reason number 7 for having an exchangestudent.
