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.