This weekend contains several holidays or celebrations which are completely new to me. We will be celebrating them all as a class, and I'm really excited about it.
Sunday is Chinese New Year. We'll be welcoming the year of the Tiger on Saturday night with a meal prepared by our classmate, Ada, from Hong Kong. Also, she'll be teaching us to make sushi rolls, so I'm really excited to learn how to make one of my favorite all time foods. I know sushi is traditionaly Japanese, but we're having it anyway because it's delicious.
Sunday is not only Valentine's Day, which is not really celebrated by most Danes, but also Danish Halloween. Saturday night I'll be attending a costume party where we'll be breaking open a wooden barrel of candy. Back in the ''old days'' (I don't know how long ago) it was tradition to put a cat in a barrel and beat it to death, but today they just pant a cat on the outside and fill it with candy. Danish candy is for the most part the same as American candy, but black licorice is really popular.
Today is not a holiday, but just Friday, and still we are celebrating. Every Friday at 2:15 a bar in the basement of the school opens and all the students go to drink and socialize. I'm glad to see college is pretty much the same all across the world.
Friday, February 12, 2010
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College universally gives students the best four (or five) years of their lives.
ReplyDeleteAnd beating a cat to death?! The vegetarian in me frowns.
Tell the Danes about Mardi Gras! You come from a city that hosts the second biggest Mardi Gras celebration in the country!
I remember reading about the cat thing in a book about festivals all over the world. It was my mom's book when she was a girl, so pretty old... but not THAT old. I wonder when the last time it happened was.
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