For our next meeting, we met up at Café Europa to have some awesome pancakes and have a chat about Christmas habits.
We found out that there is no Nikolaus in Finland and that one of the finnish traditional meals on Christmas is a betroot casserole. And I also noticed, that we don´t really have a traditional german food on Christmas. It always depends from family to family.
Another interesting things about finnish life is that it seems like they believe in gnomes – especially in the saunagnomes. So, there is this belief that when you leave the sauna, you put one more bricket of wood in the fire for the gnomes to come after you (in fact, you put the bricket on, that the sauna gets dry, but anyway…. ). I found this a very neat story.
We were also talking about the finnish version of the “Sandmann”, how he is called in Germany. Here they call him “Nukkumatti”. One of the short films that come during the Nukkumatti show ( and every child in Finland has seen it in his or her childhood) is the one that teaches the childs to watch out for the thin ice. In fact, it is a very scary cartoon and all of the guys in our group said that it really had the effect that they didn´t go on the ice.
In Finnish it is called “Varokaa heikkoa jäätä.” and can be translated as “Watch out for the thin ice”
Have fun with this weird film 🙂 click here to watch it
or here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpjR5a7IXUU&feature=youtu.be
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