Julehygge

The word for Christmas in Danish is Jul (pronounced 'yool'). To "Julehygge" is to spend time together with friends, family, coworkers, etc, during the season: eating foods spiced with christmas spices, drinking gløg and other Christmas drinks, singing together, lighting candles together, going to church for advent (which we have yet to do). As December came, David and I began to decorate our apartment and prepare to julehygge with our friends, family and colleagues.

Decorations have gone up all around the city. Here are some from the windows of stores on Strøget.













Recently they also had an international festival on Strøget. Here is an English confectionry (look at all that candy!!! My teeth starting aching at the smell of the place!) and a South African stand with Beef, Venison, Ostrich, Bison, and Wild Boar burgers. David had the wild boar. It was really neat to be at an international festival. We miss having variety. "Ethnic" food here is shawarmas and pizza. Yep, we got shawarmas, pizza, or falafals on most corners. It was actually mostly french, british, italian, icelandic, and south african.










On Friday I went to a Christmas dinner at my colleagues apartment. Almost all of us from work were there and we had a great time! We ate amazing food and I made mom's apple crisp for dessert. I didn't realize that the dessert that I made WAS dessert. There was no other dessert. They loved it!!! I presented it with Canadian flags:) After eating, we also played a gift game. We had all brought a small wrapped gift (work $5). There was one dice, which each person rolls, one after another. If you role a 6, you get to pick a gift from the table. After all of the gifts are picked, then the game changes. The timer is set for 5 or 10min. Each person roles, one after another. If you role a 1, you pick someone else's gift to give to another person. If you role a 6, you get to steal someone else's gift for yourself. After the time is up, you unwrap. After playing the game, I got a little stuffed frog:) This game seems to be very common amidst Danes.














Yesterday, our friends, Kasper and Camille, came to visit. Here's a picture to prove that we do indeed have Danish friends:) We made some traditional Danish food for them cause they'd been in Argentina for a month eating nothing but steak and veggies (which, of course, being in Denmark and having no good steaks around, we were very jealous of). We had a great time catching up and seeing pictures of Argentina.























Finally, I wanted to put up a cute (tho a little fuzzy) picture of Lærke (the baby) and Line. I made the hat that Lærke is wearing. She is such an adorable and sweet little baby:) I also made some little booties for her.






Neways, I gotta get ready for bed. It's been a relaxing weekend, but it's time to prepare for a week of work. OH, I didn't tell you. This month, at work, we have food catered. Every day we get warm food for the kids. It's so delicious every day *yum* I can't wait to see what we'll have this week:)

Heather:)