Lucia Gask at Uppsala
Went to Uppsala, a student town for the very 1st time in my 1 year in Sweden for the Lucia Gask. Everyone is either shocked or looking at me with the "loser...finger on their forehead" when they learn about my "extraordinary" situation of not being there at all, well in short, AIESEC in Uppsala is the strongest LC in Sweden, and they organise alot of activities as well, and they have around 25 trainees there, so there is always something happening, PLUS guess the main motivation is that alcohol is cheap there, as Uppsala is a student town, and they have a interesting concept called Nations, which really is a club with cheap drinks, and dancing. The Nations concept is organised accordingly to the different areas of Sweden, thus they have the Stockholm Nation, Norrland Nation ( north of land) etc, where students coming from these areas would come to this nation and have a huge drinking party.
Anyways went to the Lucia Gask last saturday where they have the traditional 3 course Swedish Smorgasbord, in the buffet style, needless to say i was stuffed
like a puff.And another common swedish tradition is singing drinking songs before finishing your snaps. ( which became too common for me), our table is full of international trainees and our favourite song is called "Heylango". It is fun no doubt but becomes irritating after a while when u HAD to be interrupted every few mins to SING! :P This was also the 1st time that i see swedes so obessed or preoccupied about formalities, doing it right, which is very rare in this society. For example, there should be a guy, girl seating arrangement, the guys are supposed to buy their dates Snap and when you toast, there is this rule of turning to your right, looking at your partner in the eye, back to the centre, looking at your opposite partner in the eye and then turning to the left etc. And vice versa, you then start with the left, centre and right to finish it off. Our swedish friends are actually pretty excited with all these formalities.:)
The climax of the whole ask other than the food, and the floors of the nation being opened up as a drinking/dancing haven, set in the early 1900s architectural building, is the Lucia performance. Imagine lights off, from the dark steps. this choir is singing and walking towards the hall, and being entertained by almost angellike voices singing Lucia songs and Xmas songs. How cool is that?
Anyways went to the Lucia Gask last saturday where they have the traditional 3 course Swedish Smorgasbord, in the buffet style, needless to say i was stuffed
like a puff.And another common swedish tradition is singing drinking songs before finishing your snaps. ( which became too common for me), our table is full of international trainees and our favourite song is called "Heylango". It is fun no doubt but becomes irritating after a while when u HAD to be interrupted every few mins to SING! :P This was also the 1st time that i see swedes so obessed or preoccupied about formalities, doing it right, which is very rare in this society. For example, there should be a guy, girl seating arrangement, the guys are supposed to buy their dates Snap and when you toast, there is this rule of turning to your right, looking at your partner in the eye, back to the centre, looking at your opposite partner in the eye and then turning to the left etc. And vice versa, you then start with the left, centre and right to finish it off. Our swedish friends are actually pretty excited with all these formalities.:)
The climax of the whole ask other than the food, and the floors of the nation being opened up as a drinking/dancing haven, set in the early 1900s architectural building, is the Lucia performance. Imagine lights off, from the dark steps. this choir is singing and walking towards the hall, and being entertained by almost angellike voices singing Lucia songs and Xmas songs. How cool is that?
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