St. Lucia
In Sweden we celebrate a holiday called st.Lucia. It’s celebrated every year on the 13th of December and it is a big celebration.We celebrate it by singing songs about st.Lucia and st.Staffan who is both two characters representing the light and hope in the cold winter. And we eat ”lussebullar” which is a Swedish saffron bun. This Lucia I celebrated by walking a Luciatåg (lucia train) which is when you preform and sing for the audience early in the morning. My Luciatåg started at 07 but it was really fun and afterwards I saw that a bunch of Swedish celebrities and influencers that posted on our luciatåg. So that was pretty fun. And then I got the rest of the day off.It’s pretty common with Luciatåg but since I go to a prestigious choir school it’s celebrated a little bit extra. Many people think that luciatåg looks a bit strange. We are all dressed in white dresses (men too) and the girls (so called ”tärnor”) wears crowns of leafs on top of their heads meanwhile the guys (so called ”stjärngossar”) wears white cones on top of their head. People think that it looks similar to the three K’s but it has nothing to do with that. And finally there is a Lucia, the main character. She wears a crown with lights on and she leads the Lucia tågIt’s honestly my favorite tradition and has a special place in many Swedes hearts! Try to search up ”lucia låtar” (lucia songs) on Spotify so you can hear the music that we sing!
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