Thursday, December 2, 2010
1 December
I still haven't heard much about St. Nicholas Day or St. Lucia, but the first of December in school was all fun. Robin took a small gift to school, which was added to the class advent calendar and each day a different student gets to take a gift home. The class will have secret nisser/elves, which is a new concept to my kids. The good news is that she can leave the gift by his cubby instead of figuring out which tall, lanky boy with short hair wearing a bjorn sweatshirt is the one she is assigned. Arlo's class has an advent calendar made by their big buddies and each day they burn part of the advent calendar. They will bring in a small gift just before Christmas vacation and have some sort of party. In a few weeks the whole school will go to the cathedral to sing carols and to hear the Christmas story (no sermon), although it is not mandatory.
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Are the kids enjoying all these Xmas activities or is it making them feel weird since they're the only ones around who don't celebrate Xmas?
ReplyDeleteWe found it really weird in Germany that Xandie had to be in either Catholic or Protestant (religious studies) or ethics ("other" ) class at her school.
ReplyDeleteSo, while the Cath-Prot kids went to their separate religion classes, the rest of the kids (Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, agnostic, atheist and anyone else) stayed behind and learned about getting along together, being kind, creating art, singing folk music and having a great time.
This could definitely be a whole post, but in general religion is not a common topic, maybe because the ethnic Danes are secular Lutherans. As with many other European countries, Denmark has many Muslim immigrants, meaning my kids aren't the only ones not celebrating Christmas. The kids seem to be enjoying the activities, maybe because of the cultural exchange aspect. Or maybe they do feel weird and don't say anything because they weird in other ways, too.
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