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Sweden is a wonderful country and it has many particularities you have to know before came here. Do you want to discover Sweden and its capital, Stockholm? It is worth it! Let´s go!!! (en)
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Remember?
Yesterday i was talking about the post-erasmus syndrome but today i would like to share another different experience with all of you. It is the sadness you feel when people in your residence leave. it was my case just 4 months ago, when the semester ended and almost...
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Swedish stereotypes
I want you to thinking 15 seconds about Swedish stereotypes, are they coming to your mind? I am sure you are thinking about blonde, cold... and overall beautiful girls and handsome boys. A big part of the problem comes from the cinema. For example in Spain we can see...
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What do you prefer?
I have told you about the expensive alcohol in Stockholm. To drink some spirit in clubs, discos or bars are impossible. As well it is in systembolaget, the official alcohol store in Sweden, is extremly expensive. A bottle of rum, vodka... can cost around 25 euros. For...
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Stockholm: the perfect setting
The city of Stockholm is trendy. There are many books that have described it in detail during the last decades and, especially in the recent years. The portrait of this city is always related to the darkness and the mystery since it is one of the main stages of the best...
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How to survive in Sweden: get a job
Sweden is very expensive. I have already told you and i am sure you will need a job to survive there. It is true, because of the economic crisis is much more complicated but the trick is just to believe yourserf, you can do it, for sure. I was trying to get a job...
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The Swedish Heroines: Pippi and Lisbeth
The Swedish literature has always given a very special place to women. From Pippi Langstrump to Lisbeth Salander, all of them are heroines for being different from the other women of their time. Both are brave, represent the values ??of feminism and figth for getting...
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Cervantes institute
Cervantes Institute is a very good place in Sweden, specially in Stockholm where you can get a job. Obviously you can not work there as a teacher, for example, but it would not be a bad idea to spread some notes or papers when people go out from class. This institute is...
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One of the most popular Jobs
Remove the snow is one of the most popular jobs in Sweden, as you can imagine, obviously. I have a friend who works in this field and earn around 200 SEK per hour, around 22 euros. On the contrary it is necessary to know that remove the snow is a very hard job. On the...
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Any others alternatives
Physical Jobs: I have told you about people who remove the snow during the winter but this is just an example about a physical job. You can find many of them, where it will be not necessary the contact with the public and, the language. If you work in a factory, it...
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Design your Strategy
To get a job is a difficult job itself but I can advice you some different points: - If you are interesting as teacher or ou pair the best option is to spread some information in schools, universities… to have more possibilities to be called. - Start to look for a job...
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Dalai Lama in Sweden
Religion in Sweden is not a very controversial topic. Most of them are protestant but anyway it is a very tolerant country. I want to share with you the Dalai Lama visit to my university, Södertorns Högskola next Friday, 15th April. Yes, if you have not the entrance...
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Swedish english
Swedish people can speak English really fluently. They are not bilinguals but so close. English is a second language for them. They start to study English at school, with 9 years old but in a very effective way. I think that they have very good teachers who speak in...
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Music in Sweden
Sweden also is very important for its music, the forth country most famous in the world. It is a country which exports a lot of music for the whole World. I am sure that you know some groups like The Cardigans, Roxette, Moneybrother or ABBA. All of the, of course, from...
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ABBA
“Mama mia”, when we talk about swedish music, the first what appear in our minds, I am sure, is ABBA. It was a group formed in 70´s which change completely the way people conceived the music. They became famous after Eurovision in 1974 and do not stop until...
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The Cardigans
Yes, they are also Swedish. They are exactly from the city of Jönköping and their most famous song is Lovefool. I am sure you know this song because it appears in Romeo and Julliet soundtrack. They are very famous in the entire world also with other songs as My...
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Roxette
They are a swedish group formed by 2 people and very famous around the world. For example you know songs as Sleeping in my car, it must have been love (from the movie Pretty Woman) or The look. They have bought around 75 millions of albums during their carrer. Also...
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Swedish politics
As you know, Sweden is a parliamentary Monarchy. Nowadays, Carl Gustaf XVI is the king but he has just representative funtions. Sweden, as other countries as Spain, divides its power in three different parts: legislative, executive and judicial. Legislative power is in...
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Södertorns Library
Bibliotek is the name in swedish of my library. I have already told you it is very modern but the library is one of the main and strong points. As the system is very different to Spain, people work on seminars, the library is always full with dozens of students reading,...
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University books
I told you swedish system is quite different from others Systems as spanish one. We work in small groups or seminars and you have to read a lot during the whole week. It is for this reason is necessary to get many different books and lectures. If they are in the...
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Looking for Hapiness
Södertorns Högskola University received this morning a Tibet leader, Dalai Lama. The expectation because of his visit could be bigger. More than one hundred people could stay inside the room with the personality but more than one thousand were listening their words...
