Christmas table, dinner or party

Every year the ones who have sat in the board of the student union, EMIL, get together for a christmas table as we call it in Norwegian. This is something every working place and lots of other unions do too before Christmas. The idea is to eat a lot of food and drink a lot, have a good party and do embarrassing things. Of course we start the day with pre-drinking before going to the restaurant. This year, as every year, we visited an Italian restaurant Frati. The dinner was good, but the wine not so much. Since I am allergic to milk it is always exciting to see whether they have anything to give me or not. What I get is usually not nearly as good what others get, but what can I do? How hard can it be to buy a couple of soy products? Anyway it was the same this time, except from the potatoes. The cream au gratin potatoes were extremely salty. I suspect they tried to make us more thirsty so that we would drink more. This year we were lucky to have one of the first members of the boards at the dinner. He took part in starting the union so it was pretty cool to meet him even though we're still a young union.

Pretty nice=)

Lucy and Mari

An important ingredient

=)

The lead singer! Being a student union we have to sing student songs at most events=)

To the left: The face of someone who realizes he's been rude and taken the dessert before someone that is older.
To the right: The offended

The new one thanked the old ones for inviting them=) It was nice of them to join the part:)

"the oldest" held a speech about how it was when the union had just started up=)

I should also mention that a normal Christmas table involves the guys taking there tie and have it around their head instead. But since we are students and the exams are coming up we didn't get that far this year:-/

EMIL's annual meeting

Since I was away last year I haven't had the opportunity to act old and bitter at the student union's, EMIL, annual meeting. That is the role the persons who have been in the board earlier have to play to make sure decisions are not made hasty and without consideration.
At the annual meeting new rules are made for the union, we look at the economy and the most important thing: Election of the new board!! It was so much fun to see that there were so many wanting to be in the board. It must mean that the union has done a good job welcoming the new students=)

Of course the meeting made me nostalgic, this is my last year at uni and I remember how much fun it was to be in the board. But been there, done that! Now new things have to be explored=)

After the meeting the new and old board and us that are old and bitter meet to celebrate. We start at our "office" and then we head for a pub, Naboen, where they have too much good beer. Unfortunately I couldn't go this year, but I think it was for the best. I might have ended up being sentimental after some beers:S
Luckily we're having a Christmas party for the old, present and new ones next week=) I can't wait!

This years leader

The ones running for leader

It is important with pizza in a long meeting=)

The ones running for the board with six seats:p

Celebration=)=)=)