The Christmas Chronicles

I could make a huge list of impossible "gifts" I'd love to get for Christmas, although I'm pretty aware I won't get any of them, like an original 1920s flapper dress or in more contemporary terms, those ravishing Miu Miu pumps down there. Besides all these beautiful materialistic wishes in the form of garments and endless accessories, all I wish I was able to do by now is to get the first plane in direction to my hometown in Brazil. To spend Christmas with my family enjoying a delightful Christmas dinner, to walk up the next day with the sun glow calling me at my window, to spend the day at the pool drinking mango juice and at lunch time, to walk to the closest homemade food restaurant, wearing nothing but a cute summer dress and sandals. Food is a great part of each country's culture, and some people, even while staying away for a short period like a holiday, miss their home food somehow. In Brazil, people from where I come from already feel a deep change in weather and especially food terms just by going to the south region of the country, so what to say of the homesickness feeling when you're in Denmark or any other scandinavian country?

It's not every day I feel that way, I could pretty much say I'm definitely adapted to all the extremely different things I've faced here, the "bad" things, I mean. Because from the good things, no adaptation is needed. But in order to not start sounding slightly ethnocentric, I should drop the bad part conversation, though it's so obvious and harmless. I guess this end of the year feeling always get me depressed no matter where I am, and considering where I am right now, it doesn't get any better. The picture collage above is a tiny example of all sort of food, from meals to desserts or even simple snacks and fruit I can't get here, and If I can, it's not really the same. I googled some of the images and many others I found on Flickr, but I don't remember from who, so If anyone out there took any of these pics, just leave the photo link here and I'll credit you. Click here to see the collage in a larger size.

The view from my window at 10am. If it wasn't so cold, I could easily picture some Little Children characters here.

Christmas time means pretty much gift exchanges, right? Wrong. Here in Denmark it also means booze time (is there a time where there's not a booze time here?) The picture was taken in a small grocery store located in Copenhagen downtown (nearby Tivoli and the City Hall), and that's just half of its drink section. Then I looked for my fav yoghurt and I couldn't find it. They only had two kind of yoghurts. Funny.

Enchanted opened yesterday and I'll probably see it today. If Amy Adams won't make me feel any better, no one else can. Now it's just four days left until all of this is gone. I'll go to Randers on monday and I'll be coming back on wednesday evening. I should be happy because I'll meet at least two of my friends, everyone else is abroad for their family or somewhere else in Denmark for other reasons. I am feeling so numb right now that I've even avoided cinema theaters for a while. You see the post below? It's been a week since I saw the last film in the list. And films are the ultimate escapism way for me, though not all of them serve for this purpose. A week. It's not really such a long time, is it? There are six films out there I'd like to see, but I couldn't so far. And then soon there will be so many others, counting with the opening dates on december 25th and the first january week. Wes Anderson, Woody Allen and Ben Affleck's debut as a director are just around the corner. And right now there's a special exhibition at the Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, about Richard Avedon's most remarkable works, I've already been there, but I'm willing to return for a second view. Is it just me, or is is there anyone out there that is not feeling so great right now..because of Christmas? Merry Christmas, anyway.

Update, December 23: Thank you everyone for the positive comments. I saw "Enchanted" last night and now I feel a lot better. To anyone out there who is feeling as blue as I was, go see this film! :-)