Christmas in Sweden by Daniela Nkurunziza
I was curious about how different countries celebrate Christmas or how their Christmas time looks, so I interviewed Ellen Martinsson, an exchange student from Sweden, about Christmas in her country.
Ellen talked about how they have little Christmas markets where you can buy things to eat or to drink like homemade bread, homemade cider, or mulled wine usually with almonds. She also talked about one of her family traditions. Ellen is every year at Christmas time at her grandmother's house baking cookies with her cousins. Usually they bake Gingerbread cookies or St. Lucia buns. While the family is baking their Christmas cookies and buns, they listen to traditional Christmas songs. Moreover, the Martinssons meet at someone’s house to watch Christmas movies and just have an amazing time all together.
On December 13th they celebrate a special day called ‘’Lucia day.’’ On that day in her village the elementary and middle school are doing a parade in the middle of the day. But what is ‘’Lucia day’’ is a girl who has a crown above of her head with four candles. Lucia, isLatin and means light in English. It is a Christian tradition. The story behind Lucia is that she was a saint killed by the Romans because of her belief. It is said that St. Lucia took food to persecuted Christias in hiding, wearing candles on her head to light her way so she could have both hands free.
Swedish people celebrate Christmas on December 24th, not like here on December 25th, in the morning and in the middle of the day. When they first wake up they can open one Christmas gift. After that they meet the whole family and their grandparents' home and all Swedish people watch a short Christmas movie on TV at exactly 3p.m. Following, they are eating dinner and opening the rest of their Christmas gifts.
Ellen’s favorite thing about Christmas in her home country Sweden is thatshe really likes getting together with all her relatives, to have a good time and of course the Christmas gifts she gets
Ellen talked about how they have little Christmas markets where you can buy things to eat or to drink like homemade bread, homemade cider, or mulled wine usually with almonds. She also talked about one of her family traditions. Ellen is every year at Christmas time at her grandmother's house baking cookies with her cousins. Usually they bake Gingerbread cookies or St. Lucia buns. While the family is baking their Christmas cookies and buns, they listen to traditional Christmas songs. Moreover, the Martinssons meet at someone’s house to watch Christmas movies and just have an amazing time all together.
On December 13th they celebrate a special day called ‘’Lucia day.’’ On that day in her village the elementary and middle school are doing a parade in the middle of the day. But what is ‘’Lucia day’’ is a girl who has a crown above of her head with four candles. Lucia, isLatin and means light in English. It is a Christian tradition. The story behind Lucia is that she was a saint killed by the Romans because of her belief. It is said that St. Lucia took food to persecuted Christias in hiding, wearing candles on her head to light her way so she could have both hands free.
Swedish people celebrate Christmas on December 24th, not like here on December 25th, in the morning and in the middle of the day. When they first wake up they can open one Christmas gift. After that they meet the whole family and their grandparents' home and all Swedish people watch a short Christmas movie on TV at exactly 3p.m. Following, they are eating dinner and opening the rest of their Christmas gifts.
Ellen’s favorite thing about Christmas in her home country Sweden is thatshe really likes getting together with all her relatives, to have a good time and of course the Christmas gifts she gets