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How to find an English speaking job in Sweden Posted by jennie on Feb 26, 2010
68 brilliant title suggestions later, let’s start with something practical and useful. Job search. The majority of you might not be planning a move to Sweden, but you never know. Perhaps you – while randomly clicking on the links beneath – all of a sudden stumble upon your dreamjob, think “why not?” and two month…
Choose this title! Posted by jennie on Feb 23, 2010
Since all your comments and inputs are such a great source of inspiration, would you be willing to help out with a little experiment? What about this: You think of a title suggestion and post it as a comment here or on Facebook. Out of all your brilliant title suggestions, we pick a few and write posts about exactly that. Anything goes…
Swedish wedding customs Posted by jennie on Feb 22, 2010
As Gabriel pointed out here, you can learn a lot about a country by studying the customs (seder) and traditions surrounding big moments in life such as child births and weddings (bröllop). I’m not about to either give birth or get hitched, but there are a lot of weddings in the air at the moment. First…
For the love of sport. Posted by jennie on Feb 19, 2010
First of all: Screw Jante! My god, alpine skier Anja Pärsson! What a performance! What a talent! What an achievement! To fly 60 meters and crash in a horrid way, stand up, walk away with a stiff leg and come back next day and score a bronze medal… I’m speechless. Go Sweden! Heja Sverige! Anyone…
Don’t think that you are special… Posted by jennie on Feb 15, 2010
…at least not if you are a Swede, that is. (Alright, we are generalizing again, but it is after all a Swedish blog…) With those words, I hereby declare the Swedish blog’s first theme week open. Every day and every word this week will be dedicated to an awful cloud that has been casting its…
Love/commercialism is in the air! Posted by jennie on Feb 14, 2010
It’s difficult to ignore the fact that mr Valentine is in the air today. Shops are swamped with cards, cuddly bears, stupidly expensive flower arrangements and dine-in deals and there are probably not a table for two available in a 100 mile radius. Valentine’s Day is – like Halloween – quite a recent thing in…
3 000 Swedish fans… Posted by jennie on Feb 11, 2010
…on Facebook about an hour ago! That is a great number and we are just about to start celebrating with a huge meatball feast. Please feel free to drop a comment about yourself, if we lucky we might get 3 000… Tack och bock! /Gabriel, Jennie, Katja, Marcus and Tibor