I Was Certainly Not A Bad Girl This Year

Just got Christmas Presents! There might be the best presents ever, arrived in the best time ever! I even got homemade Christmas candy! Ive never felt so happy about candy before. Im gonna do like they do in the movies; Im gonna stay up all night eating it all by my self watching cute boys on some romantic movies... and tomorrow Im going to write down my New Year promises... and next year Im going to be the healthyest girl ever lived. What a plan!!

Oh, I actually wanted my classmates to have a taste of the famous; You-Cant-Stop-Eat-While-You-Have-Started-Fudge... but thats allready too late ofcourse. Im sorry guys, but hopefully youll understand why..!

OMG There Is Just Three Days Left Of 2012

 

I'm eating a Lucia bun.

LUSSEBULLE

 

Here comes some more pictures from my Christmas to my mum, and everyone else;

 

Grandpa John and Grandma Johanna with their Christmas presents.

(Johanna got the beautiful Glitter- Hat)

Drunk Father Filip, my brother, are welcoming his old father John.

. . . are you following the relationship in our strange little family?

Our joyful mother Cornelia started our Christmas performance by singing;

"Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas" while John played piano.

 I forgot to mention yesterday; there were lovely strawberries on the Christmas buffet at Nordica.

That was not my favourite thou.

My favourite was the meatballs and the bread. . . together. . .  that's a meatball sandwich!

I Love Meatball Sandwiches!

 

"Have yourself a Merry little Christmas Everyone"

 

Waiting for the show to start . . .

 

The first floor of the The Three Self Church

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So, what am I up to these sunny days before New Year?

Well, I am preparing pictures and stories for our Reflection & Portfolio Presentation that is at Nordica tomorrow.

I am trying to learn the lyrics to the songs Im going to perform on New Year together with John, Ellen, Linnea and our Chinese friend Adam.

I'm feeling super grateful having the great opportunity being here in China with my dear classmates.

I'm preparing for the Gangnam Style dance lesson that I'm going to have at New Year.

I'm longing for my Swedish friends, not sure why I do that these days . . .  but I do.

 

That's my life nowadays.

 

Take Care and Be Chill

 

Lot of Love

Olivia

 

 

Merry Christmas Everyone

It is Christmas until New Year so I’m not too late, right? Hope you all had a great Christmas Eve. My Christmas was like none else. I'm still not sure if it has been Christmas seven times this year, or has it been Christmas at all? My calender says that its the 27th today, so it must have been Christmas at least one time. Anyway here comes a quick summary about my last days; We have done two performances at Nordica about how we are celebrating Christmas in Sweden. We were singing, dancing and acting. I think there were around 300 persons in the audience. We also sang some songs in the huge Three Self Church on Christmas Eve in front of 3000 persons. We had a movie night at Newman’s the day before Christmas. We had games and lunch at Newman’s at the Christmas morning and we ate a fabulous Christmas Buffet at Nordica on the Christmas day. Yeah, well that was the quick version. Don't have time to write more, have to prepare for our huge New Year event. Gosh, its an other year next week.

 Mine and John´s homemade duet at the Three Self Church.

We even got our own improvisation dancer to our song who danced while we performed.

Beautiful.

 

 Our Class- choir singing at the Three Self Church.

The huge screen in the background is not the only one... there were at least four more of them. 

We were everywhere!

On stage at Christmas Eve

Grandma Johanna, Big sister Linnea and Baby brother Ellen just got their Christmas gifts.

 

On stage at Christmas Eve.

 I just arrived wishing my mother Johanna, brother Filip and my biggest fan Louise a "Merry Little Christmas" with a song.

I made a short choreography to Mariah Caries; "Santa Clause is coming to town". 

This part of our performance was definitely my favourite.

I finaly got my Christmas Buffet at last.

Delicious.

. . .

I will remember this Christmas for the rest of my life.

NEWYEARPREPARATIONTIME

Dan Före Dan Före Dopparedan

 

Just went home after an other great Christmas party. This time I was in charge of it together with my classmates. We had a Christmas party for Nordicas staff. We made it so good it nearly felt like we were celebrating in Sweden.

We ate "Janssons frästelse" (or "Janssons temptation" as Louise use to say), meatballs, mini- sausage (I shuld´nt call it "Prince-sausage" like we call it in Swedish, right?), Swedish Glögg, egg with mayonnaise and dill, gingerbread... yea, you got it. We made a rythm- competition for some Christmas presents. We made a Christmas Quiz. We watched "Donald Duck´s Christmas". . . thats a mix of difrent english cartoon TV-program which every Swedish family watch at 15.00 every single Christmas.I know its kind of a strange Christmas tradition, but everyone does it. Its fun! Oh, guess what; we even got visited by Santa Clause himself.

 

 Happy Eating People Everywhere

I got the best job; to watch Donald Duck´s Christmas with all the kids.
There was not just kids in from of the TV in the end thou. . .

Food. I like food.

Extra zooming on the beautiful eggs with mayonaise and dill.
Made by a proud Olivia Alteryd.

Snax. I like snax.

 

Santa Clause

 

Thats all about the Christmas Party for Staff

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I also want to mention how sweet our nany is She left a present in our citchen after cleaning our apartment today. Beautiful flowers and homemade cookies that her daughter had made. HOW CUTE IS THAT!?!?

She´s the best.

 

Thats all about The Sweet Nany.

. . .

 

And now the bad news; Ive got a cold and my throat is burning like fire every time Im talking. That is kind of stressful while Im supose to sing solo on our Christmas performance at Nordica on Monday evening and sing a duett with John in the church after that in front of nearly 3000 people and TV. 3000people and TV! 3000 PEOPLE AND TV!! Im not sure how that happen? Its crazy, nearly too crazy for a girl like me. I didnt even know Im a singer? Am I not a dancer? Gosh, I need to be able to sing on Monday, at least be able to talk..!

What to do, what to do?

 

 

Eat some Very Blue Pills called Chinese SuperMedicin ofcourse!

 

Too be continued...



Here´s my address, so mail me maybee?

 

Good Morning

 

I was on a Scandinavian Christmas Party Yesterday. It truly felt like Christmas Eve. A lot of people, a lot of happy kids, a lot of Scandinavian Christmas food (and a Christmas pizza), a lot of Christmas cookies, a lot of Christmas candy, Carolas Christmas Music, Bible stories, a beautiful Christmas three with real candles and a lot of love. Grateful.

 

This will be my first year celebrating Christmas without my family. I missed my family yesterday. Spent the night watching movies on my dearest once. Like this one:

 

Sis ans Cusin

 

Have to mention that the taxi driver that drove me to the Christmas Party sang for me all the way. That was strange, and nice. More singing taxi drivers in Sweden, thanks!

Its my turn to be in charge of the English Corner tonight. My subject is; "The end of the world."

Exciting. 

 

. . .

 

Ehm... an other thing. I would love to have some mail addresses from you guys. So please send me a short mail:

 

olivia . alteryd @ gmail . com

 

Kisses & Hugs

To Spread Some Light In The Darkest Night

 

Ni Men Hao!

 

You know these morning when you wake up filled with joy thinking about your fantastic yesterday? These mornings are my favourites. This early Sunday morning is one of these mornings. Our Lucia Concert was great. I like to sing, I like to be on stage and I love Christmas, so a mix of these three things is a good combination for me. The best part of yesterday was after our performance thou.

 

Its a tradition here at Nordica to involve the audience in the Lucia Performance in the end. Every one in the audience get a lighted candle. Than they are following the Lucia outdoors walking around the neighbourhood to spread some light in Kunming. Wow, that feeling while walking in this huge line of people with candles... it was amazing! The whole neighbourhood stopped.

 

I wonder what the people were thinking? Some people might think we were some kind of sect. Some people might think we made some kind of rebellion. But I think and I hope, that some people could feel in their hearts that this is something good, something holy and something based on a mighty love.

 

 

 

 



 

 

Festival Celebration in the Miao Village

Yes, my friends; I'm giving you two posts today.

I finally have both time and Internet at the same time, so I better catch this opportunity.

This post is about last Sunday.

 

Who are the Miao People?

The Miao people are one of the 55 official minority groups in China. There are nearly 10 million Maio people in China. Most of the Miao people are living in the South of China. Our friends are living here in Yunnan, not too far away from my appartment. According to the Miao burial ritual called; "Show the way", Miao people can be traced to as early as the Shang Dynasty. The Shang Dynasty takes place 1600-1046 BC.

 

We were invited by our friends from the Miao Village to celebrate a festival with them. Still not sure what king of Festival we were celebrating, but never mind. They welcomed us with music, choirs and food. And we gave our thanks to them by singing some songs too. They liked it. At least I think they did. . . because we sang pretty good and they looked pretty happy.

 

And here comes, especially for you mummy, some pictures;

 

 

 

. . . and here comes . . .

 

Olivias-Friday-Check-list

 

Prepare Lucia Dress - CHECK

 

Print Lyrics - CHECK

 

Practice Lyrics - CHECK

 

Learn Lyrics - CHECK

 

Eat Advent Calendar Chocolate - CHECK

 

Drink Real Coffee - CHECK

 

Talk With A Very Handsome Spanish Boy - CHECK

 

. . .

 

What a lovely day!

 

 

Pictures from our Christmas Fair

 

As I promised

 Here comes some more pictures from our Christmas Fair

  

 

 

 

 

 

Busy, busy, crazy, busy, lovely month.

 

We did an awesome Lucia Flash Mob Downtown yesterday evening. 

Commercial for the Lucia Concert tomorrow at 20.00.

 

Welcome

 

I Think The Reason Is My Delicious Glögg

The Christmas Fair Is Over

This weekend. . . Ooh GOSH, I don't know where to start? This weekend has been. . . big. Yea, that's a good description; My weekend has been big! This Christmas Fair was actually the biggest one Nordica ever experienced! We had more than 2000 people visiting us. That's 400 more people than the record! Isn't that fantastic? My boss think the reason is because TV was here filming. I think the reason is my delicious Glögg.

Yes, this is must be my third time on Chinese TV.

 I'm kind of use to being on TV now. It doesn't feel like a big thing anymore. 

KIDDING! 

I think being on TV is SUPER COOL!

As I promised Ive been taking a lot of pictures. 

I will let them describe my weekend. Its easier that way. 

 

We had a Gingerbread House Lottery

 Believe it or not, but this is going to be a lollipop!

 

Performances by The Stage group; Me, Ellen, Linnea and John.

 Our cutest Julia sold goodies like;

Homemade Apple pie and Saffron Buns

 Rocking around the Barbecue with Ellen

 There were hundreds of handicrafts. Here is some of them.

 Our chef Tina was in charge of the Chinese food.

 And that was all from The Very Important Glögg Girl.

I may add more pictures tomorrow. Gotta go to English Corner at Nordica. Today's topic is; Lucia. 

To sum up: I have had a great weekend. Christmas Fair is very fun. . . but I'm happy its just once a year. Thank you for Checking out my blog.

Lot of Love/ Glögg Girl