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Emil and Danish Christmas

"This is a fictional children's novels wrote  by Astrid Lindgren, covering twelve books written from 1963 to 1997.. It had turn into a play. That I used to watch it on Danish TV with my daughter . In the beginning I link to some video clips that are on you-tube, and I build  my story  by applying to the  Danish Christmas tradition " (I known Emil is Swedish , but as Sweden and Denmark are sister countries, many tradition are alike. I do not hope that I have offended someone by doing this. It is not my intention" 

Emil Christmas a la Danish style

Ida and Emil are brother and sister. They live with their family on a farm called Katthult, in the Village of Lönneberga in Småland district in Sweden

Emil 
 

He has fair hair and blue eyes and looks like an angel, but is not, because he has a prodigious knack for getting into trouble. Contrary to what most people around him think, Emil is not malicious, but does not think about the consequences of his actions. He even states at one point that "you don't make up pranks, they just happen".

 

Ida 

Ida, Emil little sister, is a very well-behaved child, unlike Emil. She has tried to pull pranks like her brother since she wanted to go to the shed, which she thinks is cozy, but she failed.
Emil's mother writes down every bad thing Emil does in a blue book, although, that blue book expands to several blue books. His mother, however, adores her boy and tends to say, "Emil is a nice little boy, and we love him just the way he is."

Danish Christmas "nisse" and Glædelig Jul

Many of you have notice.  I change my images on this blog frequently, particulary below the head line. For me is not just beautiful layout. I also apply images accordently to season or the tradition background , that I known about and relate to
This time during december,  4 advent images and the Christmas "nisse"turn the candles light on one each time is posted. This is a Danish tradition, that  I adopter from the time I was living there.
In Denmark, Christmas starts with advent which means "coming". It is the coming of Christ that is referred to.

 "Rissen Grod -Nisse familie og katten"

What is The Christmas "nisse"?  It is a small Danish mythical creature. The nisse was usually a small, old man with a white beard, dressed in a grey sweater, grey trousers, a red pixie cap, red stockings and wooden shoes. He was believed to live hundreds of years. As Christmas today is a family time, also the nisse has a family now.
These small creature, The Danes normally and  definitely want to stay best friends with, since he is able to control your fortune. Hence the tradition of putting porridge out for the nisse on Christmas Eve.

One of the great Danish traditions is the "Children's Christmas Calendar" which is a television show made by Danish television. Most years a new one is made. Every day from the first of December to the 24th of December, a new episode is shown on television. mostly a Human family and also will have a Christmas nisse familie  as carater.Usually it is a Christmas story or fairytale either with real people performing or with puppets. In the later years, there has been a tradition for an adult Christmas calendar on television as well. Usually a humorous one.

Danish Advent Wreath

On the fourth Sunday before Christmas Eve - the first Sunday of advent - a wreath of pine twigs mounted with four candles and red or purple ribbons is hung up and one candle is lit. The following Sunday the next candle is lit, lighting one more each Sunday.
The Danes prefere to use " fresh and real" pine for the  wreath and real candles that are able to lite it .  

"Glædelig Jul" in Danish as "Merry Christmas" in English

A folkale - how the panda acquired its color

This is a retold story 

   One day a shepherd went up to the mountain with her animal . When she was crossing a bamboo wood, she heart a frightened voice from the tall bamboo wood “Help! Help! Help!... ”.
She decided to find out the reason. She saw a young panda. Its fur was as white as snow. He was attacked by a mean leopard. She though, I have to help him. She was fearless. Without thinking of consequent, she charged the leopard with a large bamboo shoot, striking him over and over again. The leopard was not hurt by the big bamboo. It turned on to fight with the little girl instead. While she fought fearlessly, the white panda rushed to get help. Her bravely action rescued the defenseless panda.

When the white panda returned with his helper “the other white panda.” They found the little girl lost hers life in the fight.

All the white pandas decided to held a funeral in honor of the brave little girl. As a local customer, the Pandas wore black armbands as a sign of mourning. All Pandas were very sad. They were carrier away in a tide of tears that moistened the black armbands, and the black dye began to run. When the pandas wiped their eyes, the armband left black marks. When the pandas consoled each other by hugging, the dye left black spots on their backs. When they covered their ears to block out the sound of crying, the black dye colored their ears. The pandas did not wash the black off their fur as a way to remember the girl.

To this day, pandas are covered with the black markings spots on their body to always remember the girl.

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Me and The Palindrom

From on line there are chance for expanding knowledge and new vocabulary. It add to my explosive "CPU". I strive to digest it slowly and put it in use.  I hock into my foolish imagination. Today my new word is "palindrome". It means a phrase or word or number can be read as forwards or in backwards. It is reverse spelling. I wonder maybe after learning English in America, I become a mutant of the words game. An extra mirror are begun to form in me . I am thinking  Palindrom as  a  mirror inside of me. There are many types of Palindrome in our everyday. I don't aware of their existent in daily and maybe this is a solution for my English learning!

The  examples  I see in every day are:.
Palindromic Characters (words):
civic, radar, level, rotor, kayak, reviver, racecar, and redder.

Palindromic numbers, (I mostly able to see it as a prime number.)
1221,  5885....

Dates  
It depends on what system you are looking  at "The US or The other". I wonder if I say  The US is the complementary of the European can be offensive context Palindrome video

Genetic in the human DNA
"In the genetic instructions will be able to find the palindromic context too. The DNA is formed by two paired strands of nucleotides, and the nucleotides always pair in the same way (Adenine (A) with Thymine (T), Cytosine (C) with Guanine (G)), a (single-stranded) sequence of DNA is  a palindrome if it is equal to its complementary sequence read backwards. For example, the sequence ACCTAGGT is palindromic because its complement is TGGATCCA, which is equal to the original sequence in reverse complement."
 There are many more of this subject,  I need to hold off for now.
One thing I can conclude Palindrome is " monkey see monkey do"

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