Christmas Party

Yesterday, my flatmates and I had a Christmas dinner (or lunch and dinner). It was absolutely amazing.

It started off as an idea a month ago. At the time, people were complaining, 'but Christmas is too far away!' Time flew so fast.

The day before yesterday, we went out as a massive group to buy food. I was prepared! I brought my suitcase. (Let's just miss out the part where I nearly left my suitcase in the Iceland and Tesco aisle).

At two thirty when I came back from my lecture, I started off peeling the parsnips and carrots. After some tedious minutes of doing them alone, I recruited my future flatmate, Adele. Together, we tackled the carrots and parsnips as well as watched The Parent Trap.

Then we started to fry and then glaze the carrots with honey. Trust me when I say that they were delicious!

I ended up coordinating most of the cooking (and telling people what to do). However, Josie entirely handled the meat and vegetarian pigs in blankets.

We were supposed to start at 4:30 on the dot. (We started at 5). Most people listened to the dress code and dressed formal so we all looked especially nice. I wore my prom dress (which Daniel said looked as if I was going to a funeral). We ate a fantastic meal.

At 10:30, we had dessert. Ole made Norwegian rice pudding and Marianna made a chocolate cake. Since being here, she has made four cakes. This is as she makes a cake for everyone's birthday. Let me tell you, her cooking skills have become amazing. I am now convinced that there is no cake she cannot bake!

We did our secret Santa and I ended up with a notebook. It is a really pretty one (so even though I did not want another notebook, I absolutely love this one!)

Afterwards, Hahnhee, Rebecca and I played piggy in the middle with a piece of foil. It was not the safest of games seeing as we were besides a table and in the kitchen. However, it certainly was fun.