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Dia dhaoibh (Hello Everybody)

Want to send a Christmas card to my old country friends and fellowers back in old eAn Iorua (eNorway). I still do remembering my childhood Christmas` over there.

How are you?

Here in eIreland I`m fine, and I have to admit the colour of this green island suits me well, with this colour back ground, I can live quit unnoticed. Do some production in my holding here, and also do some politics at the time being. I was wondering to join the Green party, but there was not any such alternative, so I joined another one instead, and is now for first time elected to congress. Interesting to see differences and similarities between eIrish and eNorwegian politics and societies. They do primary elections within the Party, before nominating CP- candidates. I find it very interesting, perhaps I shall tell more about on an later occation.


Here I am....!

As you probably see, after some months here, I`m trying to speak some eIrish, since learning the native language is the best form of integration. But I have to admit speaking eIrish is not the easiest project to do. It`s a lot of consonants after consonants in long words. For instance: I like to travel around and see places on this green island. One day I wanted to visit Muckanaghederdauhaulia in Galway. But I had to ask about the route to this place and so I do to an old man I met on the road. My pronounciation was perhaps not so good, or perhaps he was a little bit deaf. I ended up in Drehideenglashanatooha in Tipperary instead.

Not a bad place that either….

Muckaanade.... ehh... Moklahede.....! A place in Ireland

But I learned a trick to improve my celtic speaking! A right combination of some amounts Whiskey and some amounts beer helped me to be better understood. Large amounts of this stuff improved considerably my celtic, but unfortunately, my Norwenglish went inversely proportional. It is a sharp edge, still to be learned, concerning the correct amount of beer and best celtic. Learning by doing efforts brought me into some.. ehhem… embarrassing awakening moments in next morning. Only God knows what celtic words and.. ehhem.. socializing efforts I made the previous late night..! My explanations at this morning stage could only be given in Norwenglish (with frog accent). And believe me; it was not always helpful!

But sometimes it was not a bad place that either… 😉


No, no! First drink, then talk......

An other way to integrate is dancing. Dance is quite usual in this country, even if one does not intend to socialize. You can see it on bus stops, in toilet queues, yes even in the local zoo. when hearing a tune of Riverdance or traditional eIrish reels. And I may get involved too, even not knowing which steps to take, it came automatically. After all this exercise, my frog legs are now bigger than ever. It may not be a good idea for me visting eFrance these days because, as we all know:

French restaurants serving frog legs ARE bad places…… (where ever)

Hope you are all well and I wish and hope Santa is kind with You. As a Christmas gift I`ll send you perhaps the best version of Silent Night I know, with Irish singer Enya.
Enjoy!

I wish you all Nollaig Shona /Merry Christmas / God Jul!

Zinitus



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