Thursday, April 9, 2009

Maunday Thursday-Simana Santa!


Maundy Thursday day before Good Friday. Swedish people have their own way of celebrating Holy week.
At home or in offices they used feather for decoration ,chicken figures and daffodil in the table or some yellow flowers as color symbol of their Holy Week.
Swedish choose yellow color since red is for Christmas. The yellow color reminds about the sun that gives people happiness.
According to the old tradition people who woke- up early could see and watch how the sunrise and they will dance for joy.( Since we have a short summer here... ). Egg? why they have egg,according to their old tradition egg is a symbol of life. Life in form of the heat of the sun and the little yellow chicken- that's why Easter is yellow..
Impressive!!! well well I do like yellow.. I remember before when it's Easter day we cannot used knife and other sharp things. As our old tradition,the wound heals slowly.
Different countries with different tradition . What we need is just show some respect..

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From Cebu and landed here in Northern Europe a Nordic Country on the Scandivian Peninsula ..soon to be a Mom. Life living outside Philippines is interesting and a lot of challenge ,of course difficult because of the language.People in Sweden speak Swedish and I need to step back from the basic just to learn their language and to have a job.I created this blog for my family and friends in Philippines,easy for them to update my life here. My other reason is to keep updating my english language.