This is a beloved Christmas tradition every year.
All schools, corporations, government offices, cities and even hotels hosting Nobel
Prize winners participate. Early in the morning, the children, the prettiest
young women, or in the case of each city and the Nobel Prize winners, the women
who have been selected in a prestigious yearly national competition – gather, dress in white, sing
traditional Lucia and Christmas songs and bring coffee and sweet baked goods.
One year, they scared a Hispanic Nobel Prize
winner really bad knocking on his door at 5 am, because in his native
country, the only time you bring lit candles is when somebody has died.
Cross-cultural relations have fascinated me since
my teens; they still do.
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These days, they warn the Nobel Prize winners there will be white-clad people singing to them before dawn, in order to prevent heart attacks :) Good thing, too!
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