ME AND"GOD JUL" AS THE MOST COMMON SUNG SONG DURING DECEMBER IN NORWAY

December was the most interesting month for me here in Norway. Why am I saying so, because all the time there was a song being sung by all the people in Kristiansand including the e-mails that I received from my Norwegian Friends had this same song
Called “GOD JUL,GOD JUL” The first time I heard this word god jul I was totally confused since I didn’t know its meaning and also when people said this song to me, I would just look at them and didn’t answer anything. Then one day and bed Hus sorry this
Word may seem new for you but the Norwegians know it. Well it’s a small church that most youth in Norway like going since they look a church as a boring place. The reason as to why they like going to bed Hus is because there is no much preaching and also they have some games in this place including café. I have been to bed Hus and its fun to there. Well a friend of mine said to me god Jul I asked him what is the meaning of this song called GOD JUL? He then told me it meant merry Christmas. Is when I came to understand the meaning of god Jul and then I also started singing this chorus of god Jul.
Christmas celebration in Norway is different from that of my home country Uganda. At least in every house in Norway you would see a sign of this song that I didn’t know ‘god Jul’ including the compound showed the Christmas time. Every house had lights and Father Christmas and how is it different from my country? In Uganda Christmas is celebrated on 25 of December and decorations is on 23 of December and not every one can afford to decorate their homes with lights and Christmas tree. Here decorations start in November and every home has decorations.
I and my family contact went to church for prayers which were very brief compared to that of my country. It was full of god Jul songs and a short verse from the bible about the birth of Jesus Christ. We then went to my family’s home for dinner and guess what it was, it was a whole turkey. We sat around a big table and we were about ten people I was then served my pierce of turkey including Jul soda. After eating this innocent turkey, we sat down and had some ice cream. The most interesting part was the time for receiving our Jul gifts. The gifts were lied under a Jul tree I was surprised to see that the gifts were to be opened right then. It looked so blue for me and Moses because in my country you open gifts at your home. Since we were adopting the Norwegian culture, this was part of it and I got my gift and opened it to show every one but what I got you can not show it to other people most especially the elder people. I never wanted to show it but they asked me to show them and guess what it was? It was under wear and woman who was sited to me got a G-string and she held it with her to hands almost to my face and said I like this and I was what!, in my country such things are personal and they can not be showed to public. That day I and Moses got many gifts from friends including bed Hus. Jul was really nice for me.