‘Semester in Sweden’ CategoryPage 4
Northern Minnesota Girl in The Big City
Well we have made it through 12 days in Stockholm alive! Despite withstanding vicious winds, countless miles of walking, many important meetings with influential people, and living on a ship with incessantly loud highschoolers, we all managed to make it to Spring Break in one piece. Instead of our days being filled with class and […]
Medieval Memories in Modern Stockholm
While my friends will be giving you superb coverage of our day to day travels in Stockholm, I wanted to craft a different narrative for you, one near and dear to my heart. As you may or may not know, I am an avid medievalist, so Stockholm’s dreamy old buildings and exciting museums have been […]
Zorn Museum and Melodifestivalen
Our fourth week here in Mora was a pretty busy one filled with some very Swedish activities! We spent quite a few hours working on our handicraft projects which was decorating the seat cushions we made earlier out of sheep wool. Some people embroidered and other people dry felted on their cushions. Most of them […]
Vasaloppet och Annas Hus
Greetings everyone, I am writing to you as I recover from what I did yesterday. In the town of Mora, there is a GIANT ski race that finishes here. This past week was filled with many different ski races from 45km up to the long Vasalopp which is 90kl long. Now to give some background […]
Third week in Mora: No sportlov for you!
In our third week in Mora, things kicked into high gear. People were flocking into Mora for the Vasaloppet and the many ski races during the week. This is also when the students here take their spring break, called sportlov. So while they were skiing and goofing off, we still had class in the morning and Swedish […]
Winter Ecology with Kjell
We woke up early, bundled up, and first headed to a classroom to properly meet our teacher for the day, Kjell Westerdahl. Today we were having a fieldtrip of sorts. Kjell is the Folkhogskolan’s ecology, math, science, and whatever-else-they-need-him-for teacher. Our focus for the day, and what appeared to be Kjell’s passion, was ecology. We […]
Mora Week Two: Let the Games Begin
We finally settled into a comfortable groove in our second week in Mora. For a rather “normal” week we did a lot: we battled through early classes, survived Vegan food, witnessed the kick off of the Vasaloppet, and resisted heart attacks after too many Fikas with too many sweets. So I’ll call it a success! […]
Mora and Mondays With Matt
Our time in Mora so far has been very fun. We are here right as the city is starting to swell with racers and viewers for the annual Vasaloppet ski race. The number of people here has already greatly increased in size from when we first arrived here two weeks ago. It has been very […]
Skattungbykursen: An Experiment in Sustainable Living
This Wednesday the group took a trip to visit fellow Gustavus student Lesley Darling, who is currently studying organic cultivation and sustainable living through the Skattungbykurs provided by Mora Folkhögskola. The course takes place in the village of Skattung, about 35 minutes outside of Mora. It was begun in 1978 and many of the participants […]
The Journey South: From Sami Land to Ski Country
After a very long and arduous eighteen-hour journey south consisting of a bus, an overnight train, another train, and another bus, we have arrived in Mora. Mora is in central Sweden and home to the dala horse and the Vasaloppet, the infamous 90-kilometer cross-country ski race. This apparently is a big deal, and that fact […]