Norwegian Christmas traditions in Hawaii

Friday 7^thDecember, my roommate and I had a little gathering for some of our Norwegian friends at our place. Next week is our last week at HPU, and we have all our exams. Therefore we wanted to something nice before the craziness starts.

Every Christmas, we eat porridge, which is rice and milk cooked together, and we have cinnamon and sugar on it. There is some more traditions around this dish. A lot of Norwegians, put a boil of porridge on the balcony to the Santa Claus.

We aslo had a competition, which is another tradition we have, were we put one almond in the porridge, and the one that finds it. gets a price, which was a chocolate snowman. I guess this game started to get kids to eat up their porridge. At least that worked on me because I wanted to win so badly. 

We listened to Christmas music, had on Christmas hats and drank red wine. It was a fun night. The Christmas traditions are different here in Hawaii. It is fun to experience something new, but it was nice to do some of the Norwegian traditions too.

Video interview with Agnes

 















One of the assignments we have had in the class I’m taking; writing for the new media was to make a video of a classmate. I did a interviews with Agnes Østengen(22) from Norway. She is studying to become a journalist, but her big dream is to become an author. I wanted to know a little more about this dream, and find out why she has let go of it now when she has become older. 

Honolulu City lights. The major goes Gangnam style

Some friends and I went to Downtown. December 1^st, to see the Honolulu city lights. We hadn’t little knowledge on what was going to happen, but we knew there was going to be a parade and some entertainment. When we got there, we realized how big this thing was. The streets were filled with people.

There was different booths were you could buy different food, and there was a lot of huge Christmas decorations. The Christmas tree had fishes on it, and one of the decorations was a Shaka Santa Claus- real Hawaiian style! Then there was some speeches, and live musical performance. It was really fun to watch.

Then the Electric Light Parade along King Street started. The parade showcased fire, police and emergency vehicles. It was fascinated how much work they had put into some of these things. One of my favorites was a marching band playing “Gangnam style”; and suddenly the major, Peter Carlisle, joined the dance with the Hawaii Pacific University dance team. It was really funny and unexpected.