Video; Norway's National Day 2015

Hello everybody!

I finally finished editing and uploading the video from 17th of May. It was so much fun watching the clips again, and I really hope you will like it.

You can get to see how we celebrate our national day, so check it out.

And do subscribe to my YouTube if you wanna see more videos from Norway.

Until next time.. <3

17th of May; How I Celebrated Norway's National Day!

Hi everyone!

Yesterday was May 17th; Norway's national day! :D
I did not have the time to blog that day what so ever. The day was packed with fun and national pride. I had so much fun! We walked a lot, ate a lot and drank beer with great people.

The day started with a champagne breakfast together with some friends. We popped the champagne bottle, ate pavlova and watched the children's parade in Oslo and the royal family waving at the people + celebrations from all around Norway on the TV.

When we finished eating and drinking, we made our way into town to walk in the main parade together with our history student association. The parade was filled with all sorts of student associations, local associations, marching bands and other groups of people. Even the Norwegian stormtroopers group walked in the parade. It was really cool!

Stormtroopers!!

After a lot of walking, cheering and dancing in the parade, we went to take some photos with our student association. Also got to take some group photos with my friends. After the photos were taken people kinda scattered all over the place. We decided, true to tradition, to go stuff our faces with ice-cream and hot dogs. Yum!

Next up we just wandered around a little, looking at all the people and stall with food. Ended up getting myself a slice of pizza since, since for some weird reason a hot dog and ice-cream did not satisfy my hunger.

Then we watched the russetog (parade full of russ). Quite nostalgic watching them, made me miss my time as a russ. After watching them jump and dance around through the streets, we made our way over to a pub to get a beer. And after finishing one beer, we headed over to eat a pizza (everyone was quite hungry after walking a lot that day).

russ^^

When the pizza had been devoured, we headed back to the pub to grab some more beer and catch up with more people. And then we went home.

I have to say, jumping into bed was pure heaven after all that walking! Fell asleep once my head hit my pillow.

This year was my first time celebrating our national day away from home, and it was quite weird, but it was nice. Since I had my friends with me, it was all good.

Hope this was interesting for you to read, and maybe you learned something new about our celebration of the national day.

Until next time.. <3

Norway's National Day; A quick intro

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