Hello people of the world!
Today I thought I'd write about the big day of celebration in Norway; our national day!
Norway's national day is on the 17th of May every year. Which is like in a few days time!? So it is time to prepare for celebration. Every nation has a national day, and they are celebrated differently, and we Norwegian are no different. We take it all out. Our celebration is so full of joy and pride, and I think I can say we do celebrate it quite uniquely.
Children carrying flags and walking in parades together with marching bands. Stuffing our faces with ice-cream and hot dogs. Buildings and windows decorated with the Norwegian flag. Flags hoisted and waving in the wind at almost every house. Men and women wearing their Bunad; our national costume, or at least dressed really nicely. High school students wearing their Russebukse, which I've talked about before, running around passing out Russekort (mock business cards) to children who collect them, and they basically just run around blowing whistles and making loads of noise. Children running around with a potato on a spoon, throwing balls on cans stacked or potato sack racing. And people everywhere being happy and shining with pride for this country. This kinda sums up our national day, even though I most likely have forgotten something. I could probably sit here all night describing what goes on. But I don't have that attention span right now because I need to study for exams. But I think I will try to film as much as I can the 17th. And then you can see what it is like. Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.
I can not describe how much I am looking forward to this day. It is such a happy day where we celebrate our country, but also our royal family. They are very much the center of the celebration. It has been like that since we got our freedom from Sweden in 1905.
Hopefully I will get loads of great footage from the celebration. Now I need to go through my closet to find out what I will be wearing, because this might take me days to figure out...
Until next time... <3
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