Julebanko!

One thing is for sure: Danes love Christmas. And they love to celebrate, eat together and on Christmas it is usual to play Bingo (here: Banko) together. So that's what we did today. We were had traditional Danish Christmas food, played Banko and danced afterwards. Most of the students don't know the numbers and need help. I know the Danish numbers now, but under this pressure of time during the game it was a big challenge for me to fill out my own and some student's bingo plates.

The traditional Danish dessert for Christmas is called "Risalamande" which means rice with almond. It is basically made with milk, a special rice and cream and you mostly eat it with a warm Cherry-sauce. When you finished cooking "Risalamande" you throw one or a few whole almonds into the mash. So at least one of the people eating the dessert will find an almond in his or her bowl. The person finding the almond in his/her bowl get a present. So actually everyone eating it is searching to find it. If you find an almond in your bowl you are supposed to hide it from the others until everyone is finished eating, so everyone - besides you - still thinks the almond could be in their own bowl. Afterwards you show that you have it and get your present. Today I was the lucky one: