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Now will you see how Norwegian Christmas in my hostfamily is. This is our "official" family foto which was on all the Christmas cards.

Lille Juleaften (small Christmas Eve) is the evening on the 23 December. My hostmother decorated the Christmas tree and Harald, Anne Marit and me were playing settlers and drinking a Juleøl (Christmas beer). On this evening I was before by my girlfriend. We watched some movies, for example "Home alone". It was nice because I saw this movie maybe 5 years ago the last time. By the way Harald won this game. Anne Marits comment: "Harald wins allways, when we're playing a tactic game".

This is our Christmas tree. He will stay til ca. 20 days after Christmas Eve. Because it is a fresh tree likes Anne to have it that long.

This is the Christmas gang :-) without Thorvald. I want to thank Anne, Thorvald, Anne Marit, Harald, Tormod and Nina for this homy evening. The food was very good. We ate ribbe (rib from pork) with medisterkake (meatballs) and vegetables. For dessert ate we fruitsalad...delicious! :-)

After eating sat we in the living room and sang some songs. We were waiting for..

..the Julenisse. You can see him on this picture. It was really funny because he tried to speak German but unfortunately should he practise it a little bit more. ;-)

This is the Norwegian traditional costume called "bunad". Here a list of the presents I got: A poster with a picture from Prekestolen which I took, a teddy moose, cookies from my granmother, a scandinavian guidebook, DVD from a comedian, a Norge bottle, a Halden book, money, CD from my favourite band "Gotthard", tickets for a musical in Oslo opera house, "moods of norway" pyjama pants, prekestolen tourist T-shirt, chocolate and a lot of cards. I want to thank everyone who sent me a card! :-)