Swedish Lakeland

Hey! Tomorrow I am once again stepping on a plane and heading back to Sweden! I've decided to start a blog, but seeing as the people I am staying with for the first while do not currently have internet, we will have to see how often I can get about to ...

As my first year of graduate school in a foreign country begins I have to reinterpret my ideas of a city that I grew to love a year ago and adjust to a country that I know, but that I am still very foreign to.

... them my American passport and my Swedish sponsor, I was whisked into a private office and after the exchange of 1000 Swedish Crowns and a few questions (foreshadowing: perhaps it is here where things got lost in translation), my passport was returned to ...

Today I got to experience a small piece of Swedish culture that is slowly becoming a tradition. As the country moves farther and farther from being a religious nation the population is finding ways to replace religious ceremonies with other events. Today ...