‘Semester in Sweden’ CategoryPage 3
In Europe’s Greenest City
We arrived in Växjö on Tuesday, April 16th. For the next five days we all got to live with Swedish host families; some of us in the group were in pairs and others were alone. Kallie and I stayed with Magnus and Katarina and their four children, Aaron, Salomon, Miriam, and Efraim. (They also have […]
A Bit More of Stockholm
Stockholm is one of those cities with a name that makes you think of certain images or ideas. Beautiful people. Waterways and islands. Old pastel-colored buildings. Often, visiting an actual city shows you that the idea you have of it is actually inaccurate. In Stockholm, the stereotypes are true. The level of fashion here is […]
A Day in Gamla Uppsala
Our time in Uppsala was brief but very packed full of class and field trips. Monday through Friday we had class for eight hours where we learned about chemistry. I’ll be honest, none of were really looking forward to this science class but we got our general education requirement taken care of and compared to […]
The Family Comes to Sweden
For our spring break, my parents, brother, and grandmother came to Sweden to see this wonderful country and to try to dig into our family history. Our spring break was very interesting and filled with many “I can’t believe this moments.” We had the start of our trip in Stockholm. We spent 3 nights in […]
The Siljan Ring and Another Lovely Day With Kjell
(Wednesday, March 13) Today, we had another adventure with Kjell Westerdahl, this time to the Naturum Dalarna museum and Lake Siljan. Lake Siljan is part of the Siljan Ring or Siljansringen, formed when a meteorite hit what is now Lake Siljan 360 billion years ago. The recoil from the meteorite impact formed a granite dome […]
To “The Crook State” and Back: Bulgarian Adventures
In order to describe the following events, I have to back up a few months to this past summer. I worked at a resort called Madden’s in Brainerd as a server in the Lodge, one of Madden’s five restaurants. Since Brainerd is not a very diverse place, international workers were recruited from all over […]
My Fairy Tale Week in Visby
When most people think about college kids on spring break, they think about warm destination spots, beach side resorts, youthful excess, and incessant noise. Besides the beach part my spring break could not be further from Hollywood’s gaudy stereotype of spring break. I spent most of my spring break in Visby, the best preserved medieval town in Sweden, […]
London Adventures and back to Stockholm!
Well another spring break has come and gone. I spent the first four days of my break in London with Erik. We have both always wanted to go to London and this was the perfect opportunity since we are already in Sweden. Travel within Europe is pretty easy and fairly cheap. We jumped on the […]
Stockholm, The First Week
Well friends, this is over due but only because so much has happened here in Stockholm. We left from Mora on March 17th early in the morning in order to visit the Vasa Museum because it was going to close down on that Monday for renovations. It was bitter-sweet leaving Mora because I had made […]
Spring is Here?
Last week was our Spring break. Instead of going utomlands, I spent the time exploring Sweden. It began in splendid Stockholm. My parents had come to meet me there the week before and we got to know the city together. We walked for days on end before we started taking the bus. Yet, walking was a […]