Day 9 - Christmas Eve!

We got up early to go to the hospital here in Nuuk(were Hannes mother work) were we ate breakfast at 9 o'clock. It was snowing! - For the first time while I am here:-P All other days it has been clear and beautiful weather...
At 10 Santa Claus arrived at the hospital in a fire truck. Normally he arrives in a helicopter, but it snowed too much for him to land. Then he walked through the hospital with gifts to the patients:-)



When we got home we had to clean the house and church before the christmas service, which was cool! - We sang christmas carols in Greenlandic, which was fun:-)



Afterwards there were "kaffemik" in the house, a tradition were some of the people from church come by to get coffe and talk:-)

After that the preparations for christmas eve started and about 6 o'clock a guy named Ulrik walked through the door singing in Greenlandic, very cool:-) He was invited to celebrate christmas by the Østergaard family. He is from the
church and his family lives far away in another city in Greenland.



After a lot of eating, which I have to say has been a huge part of my vacation with this family:-P(well it is christmas)
we prayed after Lene shared something from her heart, worth remembering:-) Afterwards we sang chriatmas carols while dancing around the tree:-)

Then presents. I got one from the Østergaard family. Very nice of them, and unexpected! - It contained a necklace and earrings. The necklace was made out of raindeer and formed as Greenland. The earrings was made out of whale:-)

When we were finished John, Ulrik, Hanne, Lene and I played a new game called "Olsen bandens 14. kup" - It is a boardgame based on a series of 14 danish movies with 3 guys trying to rob different people, but they always fail and one of them ends up in jail everytime.

One of the tree almond-gifts which i got(Lene had planted it in my portion, very nice of her:-))