Friday, April 24, 2009

Monday, April 13, 2009

Easter Holliday!

I always wonder about the Easter day and I always ask my counterpart and some Swedish people about the Easter History and the link between Easter day to Egg. Why people normally eat egg and more candy during the Easter Holiday. Then I found out that It is the traditional ceremony regarding to Jesus Crises, Christian religion. In fact, all of these explanation still make me in the doubt way because I still do not understand clearly about it.

According to my observation, I found out that during this holiday, people do not work due to it is the national holiday. Most of the people living in the Stockholm are travelling to visit their hometown and /or to meet their parents and relative so as to celebrate the Easter Day. One more thing is that during this holiday, it is a chance to relax and have some thing fun in their own family. Then, they eat more candy and egg. It sounds interesting for all Swedish people have to visit their hometown and take more time with their own family.

If comparing to Cambodian traditional ceremony, The Easter Day looks like Pchhum Ben Day that all Cambodian people always visit their family at their home town and /or bring together with their family to go to pagoda in order to offer the food for the monks. Through doing this, they can transfer their food to their ancestors who already pass away for a long time or just gone in the recent year.

Furthermore, during this traditional Easter Day, each family (parents) normally provide a gift of candy wrapped in a box, shaped as an egg but the big one to their children and the neigborhood. To children,t hey are decorated their face together stressing up with the tranditional different stypes. Then they start to walk to their neigborhood in order to bring the good luck to all of those families gift of candy and they will get a present of candy each back home. This is very amazing for me at the first time when I saw more children did like that, but it was fun to see anyway.

MY COUNTERPART PARENTS

Like most children, I also got a gift of candy wrapped in the big Egg box from my counterpart's mum. She gave me in the secret way she put it in under my pillow and I did not reliaze that unless my counterpart told me that I got a lovely gift from her mum and she kept it in the unexcepted place. I was do surprized to get even though I thougtht that it was child's gift. But, she also gave me another gift the next day, it was the lovely sneaker.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Hi,

Dear everyone,

Hej everyone. Please have a nice day in each placement.
Be succeed in your work and have a good health.

See you in Mid-camp!

Warm Regard,

Sony