This is an excerpt from the Expat Blog. Click here to read the whole post: 9 Swedish words that should be incorporated into English Pronto, Immediately, Now The English language has a lot of words… maybe even the most words of all the languages in the whole wide world. I can’t be totally sure of that…
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Midday walk in Slottsparken (The Castle Park) in Malmö
The obsessive documentation of Spring’s arrival continues. SPRING! FLOWERS! BIRDS A-TWITTER! BABBLING BROOKS! FOREARMS BEING BARED TO THE GREAT OUTDOORS! FEELINGS OF GREAT ELATION! You get my drift. Friday was warm and sunny, so my coworkers and I ate lunch on the double and used the rest of our break time to take an energetic…
So obsessed with Spring right now
Today, sunlight filled the train cabin on my weekly trip to Landskrona, just as it has for the last few weeks. But today, unlike in past weeks, the sun was still shining while I was on my way home. I got off at my stop at 5:28 pm and the first hill up to my…
And now I’m a political commentator, apparently
There are many nerdy things about me, but one of the most outstanding side notes in my long history of nerdiness (NERDINESS, spellcheck. It’s a word.) is the two years I spent as a member of my high school’s constitutional law debate team. Ahhh, yes. One year as a participant, where my unit’s nuanced take…
Bring on Spring!
Signs of the season: spring flowers, muddy sidewalks, balmy breezes and best of all—sun, glorious sun! Two weeks ago, I was surprised to wake up one weekend morning because of sun shining into our bedroom, a first in this new apartment. Now the sun is up ahead of me even on weekdays, making it unnecessary…
Royal Baby! Royal Baby! ROYAL BABY! | the Expat Blog
Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess Victoria had a daughter at 4:26 a.m. on Thursday, February 23. (That’s today.) The baby was 51 cm tall (20 in tall) and 3280 g (7.2 lbs). Which is really exciting and all, but just wait until you see this video of Prince Daniel announcing the birth of his first…
How to find a job in Sweden from abroad | from The Expat Blog
To read the whole post, check out “How to find a job in Sweden from abroad” on the Expat Blog at Sweden.se. If you want to live in Sweden and you’re not an EU or Swiss citizen, you’ve got basically three options: one, study; two, have a lasting and genuine relationship with someone else who…
Airport Days
I’m sitting on the bus from Malmö Airport to Lund now, thank goodness, because I am one tired chiquita. Two days of teaching nonstop is totally exhausting! It went well, though, and I’m really happy I got the chance to work with such interesting people. At the end of my trip, I got a little…
15 Ways To Say I Love You In Swedish | The Expat Blog
Click here to read 15 Ways to Say I Love You in Swedish on the Expat Blog at Sweden.se We Americans are known for throwing around the word “love” to mean everything from “This is an amazing sandwich” (I LOVE JIMMY JOHN’S!) to “I want to spend the rest of my life with you” (I love you). We think this is normal,…
Off to Stockholm, sort of
I’m headed off to kind of Stockholm right now for a two day business trip… Very exciting, mostly because the seminar I’m leading will be interesting and a new experience for me, but a little disappointing because I’ll be sooooo close to Stockholm and yet still not there. I was also a tiny bit disappointed…