As we visit our parent’s and relatives during Dashain festival many Norwegians visits their parent’s during x-mas. There are many similarities and differences celebrating the festivals. We use to go the temple they go to church. We sacrifice the goats, cocks and duck to the goddess Durga, the goddess of power. They also go the church and just pray. We also eat good food and ware nice clothes. Many Nepalese have to wait until Dashain for new cloths. I remember that I had manage with single pare of cloth and had wait for Dashain to get new one. To day my kids does not need to do so but still there are many Nepalese kids waits for Dashain for new cloths and nice foods. Beside that we receive blasé (tika and jamara that are from ritual ceremony) from grand parents and senior relatives. Here we didn’t see such tradition but they visit parents and exchange the gifts.
This is my first x-mas, I was curious to know more about. I asked with Norwegian friend what do you do during x-mas? He replies me; I will go to my mother’s home. I was shocked! We also have the same kinds of tradition to visit parents during Dashain festival but we always say my home where parents living, but not mothers house of fathers house. Suddenly I relished this culture developed because they are independent and self centered or individuality society.
There were so many parties before x-mas. Future in Our Hands (FIVH) where we are working, organized early x-mas party in office. My friend Sushil is vegetarian. Norwegian eats egg and fish but Sushil do not eat. But office arranged some vegetarian food for him. I do not eat beef and pork, I don’t like lamb and sushi (the raw fish) here I eat is chicken. There was a lot of food we enjoyed a lot.
As we are the FK participant based on Oslo, we were invited by fk x east x-mas party at fk office in Oslo. We mate there ex. Participant and active participant from north and south in this occasion.
In this party we have to make some food from our home country. I have no idea to make food. My friend Sushil is good on making food. He made pickle (Aachar in Nepali). It was quite hot tomato pickle with ginger, garlic and some others species. We didn’t know that, did they like or not, fortunately they like very much. Particularly the Indian participant and some from Africa liked it very much.
There were about 20 participants. There were varieties of food from their home and fk manage food and drinks for the party. We know Norway consumes a lot of alcohol but Sushil and I do not drink alcohol but we enjoy the party with the friends from the different continents.
We talked to new friends, sing, and dance after food. We had to do some other work early in the next day morning so that we left the party shortly. The main gate was locked. We tried our best to unlock the door. We couldn’t make it so finally we had to get back to upstairs and asked someone for help. Finally Joram came to support us to open the door. Then we knew that you need the password to unlock the gate but no one told us about it when we say bye to them.
It was a kind of shock for us because we were just arrived Oslo from Nepal and we did not know anything about door lock system of that building. This was the first cultural shock that we faced in Norway, even though we had 3 weeks preparatory course in Mandal, southern village of Norway.
Since we are the journalists and pretend to be intelligent, we got shock with technology and lifestyle in Norway.
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