I have lots of good memories from last week: My friends and I had another Asian dinner, Thanksgiving, and Tivoli at Christmas! Asian dinner was a success, as usual. It consisted of munduguk, fried mundu, tofu and bean sprout panchan (by me), adobo (Merianne), spring rolls (Ben), pajun (Paul), lychees from a can (my host family had never seen lychees before), and a delicious desert made from macaroons, alcohol, oranges, and homemade whipped cream (Jette). This time it was at my host family’s house, so I was really excited to show off my home and family to everyone.
For Thanksgiving, my host mom, Jette, was nice enough to cook a lot of food, and my family even got a turkey. I felt so lucky! Turkey is really rare here so you have to pre-order it. The menu was: spinach/artichoke dip, baked brie, green bean casserole, homemade cranberry sauce (me), savory sweet potatoe pie, stuffing, gravy, turkey, homemade pumpkin pie and whipped cream (from real pumpkins), and a store-bought chocolate pie (Paul). Yum! Paul and Ben were able to come and join in and it was a really fun and good time.
DIS subsidized tickets to Tivoli’s comedy show, Crazy Christmas Cabaret, and it was hilarious. The show makes fun of all types of people (especially nationalities), and there were crazy accents and outrageous costumes, and audience participation. It was great. But what I like even better was just being inside Tivoli. It really looked magical. There were so many Christmas trees and all the little shops were decorated with festive accessories. They were selling all of the traditional Danish Christmas snacks like glogg (apparently warm red wine with spices) and aebleskiver (spherical Danish pancakes). And I was skipping around singing holiday tunes. The whole atmosphere was just hyggeligt, and it really felt like Christmas had started.
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