"From North" Scandinavian Christmas party

Dear TTers!

We Scandinavians are doing it again- having a party! Sounds surprising, I´m sure
It might be surprising though, that we´d like you to come along as well... No, now that it certainly not true!!!
We do all speak english and naturally want to have you there as well - the more the merrier!!

Welcome to our second FROM NORTH Christmas Ballroom Party on Saturday, November 26th 2005.

The Ball will take place at Cafe Reitschule in the Königinstrasse 34 in München, beginning at 6pm with a complimentary welcome drink!

A full 3 course buffet with many delicious Scandinavian Christmas dishes will be served. Drinks including beer, white and red wine and soft drinks are included in the price. Snaps and a selection of other drinks will be offered at a special price and a full bar is also available.

Your chance to show off your ballroom skills will open the evening's musical entertainment followed by our DJs to keep you dancing until the early morning!

Dresscode is something fancy, so get out your party clothes:
Ball or cocktail dresses for the ladies, whilst the gentlemen get to show off in a smoking/ dinner jacket or suit.

The price for this unforgettable event is:
- 60 Eur for members of From North
- 65 Eur for non-members.
(but don´t forget, this includes a full 3-course buffet and drinks all night (excl. cocktails and such)...

Tickets to the Christmas Ball are limited, so hurry up to register for this event, which is as always on a "first come first served"-basis!

Click here for more information and registration for the Ballroom Party.
If you have any questions, feel free to post them here or PM me or send us an email on ball@fromnorth.de, where it is also possibly to register!

For inspiration, check out our Photo Gallery from last year´s Ballroom Party here >>

We really would look forward to welcoming you on November 26th!

Welcome!

From North e.V.

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this is a great evening from what i can remember last year. i think we left at about two but rumour had it that it continued to around 5ish. great laugh with the scandis in full-on party mode, a sight to behold!

can't wait for this year's event!!

People, this is probably the ever-best x-mas party in Munich! I was there last year and it really lifted the whole roof on cafe Reitschule!! Over 300 people - dressed in coctail dress and tux gave the evening a glamoriuos touch!! In case you have not hear about it - this is the coolest Scandinavian event and if you have the chance to join - don't wait to long to sign up.

See you! java script:emoticon(':)', 'smid_3')
smilie

Cheap self-promotion from a first-time poster.

so you don't want us to come after all

@boomtown_rat:
it would be great to have you coming to the party! I guess it was just a swedish way of trying to make a joke...!
Absolutely no offence meant by that at all (oops, have just been reading the racist vs offence thread, so trying to choose my words very carefully ;-))

@Twirlie:
no, not really - but since not many of you TTers were there last year, what is wrong with having former guests stating their opinion?!?

Don't mind the brits, they've never forgiven you all for invading in the 5th century. They tend to be both surly AND carry a grudge.

don't mind twirlie, he's a being a simple-minded twat with nothing positive to contribute (so this post should do just the same)

By the way, thanks for correcting my tipping error earlier! I´ll cut the words out for you as well:

ingen orsak carpe


tack så mycket

Now I´m impressed - not bad for a brit

see you next saturday then! We can chat some more in swedish...

Heyrðu! Þessi spjall er EKKI Leikfangborg Sænska! Hérna tölum við ENSKU!! Takk fyrir.

voff.

Naima Tukka!

ok, jag ger upp - fattar ingenting.

finns det en finsk här också kanske?

I'm glad the title was corrected too, as I kept thinking that the party was for people from North Scandanavia!!

A Sami (Lapp) Xmas Party!

@Carpe Diem

Baddoggie has a bad case of Icelandic. Därför förstade du ingenting. Vises på festen!

Boomtown Rat

Di kommer också?

jag kan tyvärr inte

Editor Bob did that mistake whilst he was moving the thread... sorry, can´t pick on me for that one

Yeah, sorry 'bout that, but Iceland is Scandinavian.

Icelandic has pretty much pushed Norwegian straight outta my noggin. I can still read NOR/SWE but I can't speak/write either one. I might make it to the party.

woof.

No, Iceland is a part of the Nordic countries ("Norden" in Swedish), as is Finland.

Only Denmark, Norway and Sweden make up Scandinavia.

It could be that Icelandic is considered a Scandinavian language, perhaps that's what you mean.

I've heard this often, what determines the term Scandinavian then!

something belonging to or originating in Scandinavia I should imagine (Scandinavia being determined by geography)

They all belong to the North Germanic family of languages except Finnish of course. Danish and Swedish are considered East Scandinavian whilst Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese are considered West Scandinavian. Scandinavian, however, is a geographical concept explained by ET and BT.

Scandinavia (as described by Wikipedia):

Scandinavia is the cultural and historic region of the Scandinavian Peninsula and some surrounding areas. The Scandinavian countries are in present day understood as Norway, Sweden and includes Denmark even though it does not actually reside on the Scandinavian Peninsula.
The bulk of the Finnish population is not ethnically related to the Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian populations, who all share a common ethnic and linguistic connection to one another.

The usage and meaning of the term 'Scandinavia' is somewhat ambiguous though:
Finland, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland are still sometimes counted as parts of Scandinavia, as they share strong social and historical ties to Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
In a British mindset, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are usually included, often with the addition of Iceland, Finland, and sometimes even Greenland.

The term the Nordic countries is used unambiguously for the Scandinavian kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and the republics of Finland and Iceland.

Conclusion:so, that is why our association is called "FROM NORTH" and not Scandinavia... but at the party, the buffet consists mostly of scandinavian dishes, hence the wording

Det ville jag också fråga.
Gäller en finsk som skandinavisk?

meatballs!!!

Tack ska du ha!
Your answer overlapped my question.

it all seems a bit random according to wiki (english version, swedish version says much the same). Accepted usage appears to be Sv, Dk and N

ok, carpe var snabbare

Weird, I know someone from Finland who says it's in Scandanavia.

A person from Finland with Swedish as his/her mother tongue, probably would consider him/herself as Scandinavian! Finland has two official languages, Finnish and Swedish, the latter mostly being spoken in the southwest of Finland...

Yes, Wikipedia is a bit vague about it, but the whole thing is a bit vague, in my opinion... Scandinavia consists of the countries that belong to the scandinavian language group as far as I am concerned...

Every Finn I know has told me they are not part of Scandinavia and that happens to be what my Time Life book on Scandinavia said too.

It's weird 'cos part of Norway is actually north and looks almost as if goes east of Finland, yet Finland isn't on the Scandinavian Peninsula?
Still I never was very good at Geography.

some Scots also like to think they belong to Scandinavia instead of Britain

Finland used to be a lot larger. Large parts of it were lost to Russia in the 2nd World War.

well that can't be right the Scandinavians are nice people!

not sure of what the Scandinavian Peninsula is myself, to be honest, so went on Wikipedia again:

"The Scandinavian Peninsula is a peninsula located at the northwest corner of Europe and encloses the Baltic Sea. It extends from Russia and Finland in the north and almost reaches Denmark in the south. It contains the countries Norway on the west, Sweden on the east and parts of Finland on the northeast. The Scandinavian mountain range separates the three countries."

learning a bit too much new stuff for one day...

Even that geographic definition from Wikipedia is a little vague methinks

How would Denmark then be part of Scandinavia according to the peninsular theory?

Well I'm glad we've cleared that up then!

that seems to be the prob with wiki's description, which I think wiki kind of gets around by saying something about cultural values...

I'll go with that definition for now. Meaning that Iceland and the Faroes make it into the club but only bits of Finland.

Her mothertongue is Finnish.

I just thought of an easy solution for definitions of Scandinavia, Nordic, Scandi-Peninsula, Danes, Finns etc -
come along to the party and see for yourself what we all look like and how we act!
"Warning" must be mentioned --> I´ve heard frenchies, brits, aussies, italians and other EU-nationalities will be coming as well

And a South African! Aterminstone tala jag en lite svenska. Jag vill hörer i alla fall gyllene Tider!

Scandinavia means different things politically, geographically and geologically. Politically, it is Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Geographically, it is Norway, Sweden and part of Finland. Geologically, and also known here as fennoscandia, it is the latter plus the whole of Finland. Linguistically, they are the north Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages except for Finnish which belongs to Finno-Ugric along with Estonian and Hungarian. They are then further sub-divided into East and West Scandinavian languages as explained earlier. It can't get clearer than that, mind you everything is fairly dark up there...

@Ulysses - oh, sorry, so South African as well! Brilliant!

thanks for your clear definition... now my head is really spinning

might be dark up there right now, but summertime it couldn´t be brighter!

I know, I was there this and last summer. It never bloody gets dark! But it did get a little foggy after the first bottle of Absolut...

@Ulysses: ABSOLUT will surely be available at the bar on the 26th! Will you be able to come?

I´d recommend a drink we in Sweden call "vargtass" (= fox paw): absolut curant with cranberry juice - hmm

weather forecast is for real snow (see other thread) during this event, so it should be all bing crosby 'n' that.

Dear TT-Friends,

Winter wonderland has already arrived and more is to come this weekend. Christmas markets open this weekend all over Munich and so does the christmas season for us!

Therefore, it´s your last chance to register now for the From North Christmas Ballroom Party this Saturday, November 26th!
It would be great to see you TT-ers there celebrating Scandinavian Christmas with us!

And here are the details:
The Ball will take place at Cafe Reitschule in the Königinstrasse 34 in München, beginning at 6pm with a complimentary welcome drink.

A full 3 course buffet with many delicious Scandinavian Christmas dishes will be served and drinks (beer, white/red wine and soft drinks) are included in the price. Snaps and a selection of other drinks will be offered at a special price and a full bar is also available.

Your chance to show off your ballroom skills will open the evening's musical entertainment followed by our DJs to keep you dancing until the early morning!

Dresscode is again something fancy, so get out your party clothes:
Ball/cocktail dresses for the ladies, whilst the gentlemen get to show off in a smoking/dinner jacket or suit.

The price for this unforgettable event is:
- 60 Eur for members of From North
- 65 Eur for non-members.

Follow this link to register for the Ballroom Party:
http://www.fromnorth.de/index.cfm?id=2493 or just send us an Email at ball@fromnorth.de

We really would look forward to welcoming you on November 26th!

From North e.V.