Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Christmas arrived, quietly and cheerfully.
I was wandering around the downtown area, trying to feel the Christmas in Lund.
I guess people were all going home, circling around table to enjoy their Christmas feast, chatting and having fun for the grandest festival in a year.
It was extremely silent on the streets, though there was a few people like me who was taking pictures. This is the only and last Christmas for me in Lund. I like this small town. It filled with all the good memories of my study life here.
During Winter time, it is getting dark early as usual. But Lund, at the Christmas Eve, is getting more quiet than I had expected as almost all the shops' window lights turned off at 5 o'clock.
There were people gathering in the big Cathedral downtown, praying for happiness. I would like to pray for the health and happiness of my family and my friends.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Corridor Christmas Party!

We had a Christmas party last night. It was so much fun. I didn't expect that as I am not a party animal. I seldom go to parties unless I know that it will definitely be fun.
What we did last night was we 13 corridor friends gathered together, cooking, eating, drinking and having fun. Though we share one kitchen, we seldom have a chance to meet all the people.
Someone said it was the first time we made it. Each of us cooked one dish and we shared food with each other. Very much like a buffet, we queued for food though only 13 :). Fetched food and drinks and rotated seats from time to time, we got chances to talk to each other. My Swedish friends made exactly the food that they will have for Christmas at home. It's very interesting to know what are they going to eat and to do during the Christmas time.
It's a tradition in Sweden to sing before drinking. I think it's fun and helps a lot to warm up the atmosphere. Last night, we sang a lot and drank a lot, though for most of time, I was just listening to them singing as I barely know a word about Swedish.
After dinner, we circled around our tiny Christmas tree, hand in hand, dancing. That's a very fun part of the party. I didn't know they did like that before. Everybody was happy at that time, though some said mainly kids do that dancing and they haven't done that for quite many years. Most of them couldn't recall some lyrics of the dancing songs.
Yeah, party was all about eating, singing, drinking and dancing.
But what a Christmas party last night!

When Christmas comes to town

When Christmas comes to town, Santa is on its way, it says.
It is a lie or it is not a lie! Coz every year Santa is too busy to show up for most of us.
However, we should keep the wish that one day Santa will find us.
It is not necessarily the Santa who sends out the gift wrapped in red and green. It is the one who cares about you and helps you make your wish come true.
So is there such kind of Santa around?
Yes, it is you and it is us who will be someone's Santa and vice versa! Your Santa will come around sometime somewhere.
Are you ready to be a Santa?

Chocolate Christmas Coming!

The calender just turned December.
My corridor friends made a Christmas chocolate house.
What a cute little yummy house!

X'mas is coming!

Still have 6 weeks to go for X'mas.
However, my corridor friends can't wait to warm it up earlier than previous years.
"This year we would like to make it earlier and have more fun," said Stefan, a very nice Swedish guy from Stockholm. He is the one who handles almost all the stuff in our corridor.
Usually, they start counting down four weeks before X'mas by adding one candle each week on a candle plate. So when there are four, X'mas is there.
In the past week we've already had two glogg parties for X'mas. We had cookies and dried grapes. And the heated glogg wine is very much like traditional Chinese medicine to me. It is very sweet.
We also bought X'mas chocolate canlendar, though it is November:) I opened the 6 of Dec and found a Santa on the back of the calendar.
Expecting X'mas!