Finally I got some time to visit one of my neighbors. This has the same reason as the dark video I made of the apartment; I haven’t been home a lot during daytime. I live in a very multicultural neighborhood as you can see, good for my study :) Today I went to people from [...]

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Not a blue/yellow, but a red truck arrived. IKEA hires another company for the ‘hemtransport’. It all fits in the small elevator: Nikki helpt with following the IKEA manuals and creating a bed, table, chairs and a closet out of the seperate parts. Now I also now a little bit more what Your van ‘t [...]

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This morning was the first lecture. Actually it was the second – yesterday the whole group got an introduction into ‘the swedes and swedish culture‘ – but this was the first one of my programme of courses. This first course I’m following is about the anatomy of intercultural interactions.. Yes, this first lecture was an [...]

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The Swedish language is not that hard to read for most of the words, it looks a lot like Dutch. What helps is when you know how to pronounce the special Swedish characters. ä is pronounced as e å is pronounced as ó (oo) ö is pronounced as eu And some more less important for [...]

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