Julefrokost

Julefrokost, literally translated from Danish means Christmas lunch, but to the Danes, who take Christmas very seriously, it means meeting up with friends, family and people they haven't seen in awhile for a meal in the month of December, in the lead up to the 24th December, which is the day that they celebrate Christmas.

The law school Julefrokost was held last Saturday night at the Studenterhuset.

In the lead up to all the goodbyes we'll have to say in the next 2 weeks, at least it won't be painful for the both of us when parting ways since as we literally live 3 streets away from each other in Sydney. Yes, it is a small world after all. We can get together over a (decent) coffee and reminisce about the great ole days in Kobenhavn when our family and friends grow tired of our exchange stories.

Danish law tutors give us a warm welcome to the evening.

A welcome drink to start the fun flowing. Everything is coated in sugar in Denmark.

The boys lookin smart, Sam and Kristian

Lovely French ladies, Alex and Lise. We managed to endure "Introduction to Danish Law" together, the most useful subject in the world!

Andrej, Sashi, Sushila, Tez

Another lady I'll see back at home =)

It was lovely to see everyone dressed up..a rare opportunity when you're on exchange! All dolled up, Helena and Em

Sare comes in disguise by donning her glasses. The preppy look works well I must say! =)

They catered for about 20 pieces of rugbrod (ryebread) per person which is clearly the standard for a Dane, but not for an international. When Princess Mary defended herself against tabloid news about her sudden weight loss by attributing it to adopting a traditional Danish diet, I first thought, "Pffft, she's obviously just given into the media and spotlight pressure to be thin!" but after living here for a few months I totally believe and symphathise with her! The lashings of rugbrod was intended to go with the starters, which consisted of plain cold herring, cold herring with mayonnaise/egg dressing, battered fish and different salads.

The main course was awesome though: A traditional Danish Christmas meal of ham, pork and frickadellas..lots of red meat basically. Too bad for those who thought the starter was the main course and stuffed themselves silly with rugbrod and cold fish. A clear indication of what we have grown to expect of a Danish meal =P

Rice pudding with cherry topping for dessert..yum!

Being taught a Swedish drinking song..only the Danes and Swedes had any idea what was going on really..SKAL!!!!

Serena and a little French monkey popping up behind

Aussie girls looking gorgeous, Tez and Em

We were all asked to bring a gift worth 10-2odkk to play the present game! This is where you place all the gifts the in centre and 2 dice are sent around the table. Everytime you roll a 6 you are allowed to take a present from the centre and once all the presents are gone from the centre, you can start taking presents from each other. I would rather have exchanged gifts so that everyone went home with something but the Danes were quite intent that we play it this way. I think alot can be revealed about someone's personality in this game!

One of the lessons learnt in this game is that the biggest and nicest presents aren't always necessarily the best...

As Sushila found out, appearances can be deceiving!

Sushila with her lovely random doll that grows grass hair when you water it! and Tom with his gnome shot glass?? I think that's what it is anyway...

Last Sunday saw the official lighting of the Christmas tree in the Radhusplasen (town hall square). Its a 100 year old tree standing 22 metres high and covered in lights and red and white paper hearts.

Santa climbs up a fire ladder to light up the tree only it was slightly out of synch and the tree light up before he touched it with the sparkler ignited! oh well..good try santa..

Philipp mocks the horizontally challenged. Girls in Germany are obviously much taller since I think by Asian standards I'm not thaaat short!

So..one more exam on Thursday and then I'm done! Finito! The End!

Can't wait =)