Last evening I had the lovely opportunity to hang out with a friend of mine, her host mom, visiting host student and her host mom’s friends as we partook in watching the Eurovision Song Contest.
I went in thinking, wow this will be a fun evening, we were having sushi and they have a cat. I was extremely excited to cuddle with and make friends with said fluff ball as my host family doesn’t have any furry animals. Unfortunately, I have lost my “cat sense” and their cat didn’t exactly fall into my arms, but the rest of the evening was even better than I could describe.
The Eurovision Song Contest is semi-similar to American Idol, X-factor or television singing contests. This competition is first within Denmark (what we were watching last night), and then the winners go to compete against the rest of European countries’ selected winners.
Last night, we watched ten different musical performances, of which only one was sung in Danish. In order to have a better chance to win the full European contest, and be understood, it is a trend to sing in English now-a-days.
ballots upon ballots
I won’t spoil who won the contest last night, but it was interesting to converse with some other Danish lasses about their lives, the upcoming Oscars Award Ceremony and truly feel the sense of hygge as we jammed out to some tunes.
Tak Jessie for a wonderful evening!