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New Adventure!
I am currently sitting in a dorm room at SIDA's training facility in Härnösand. Tomorrow we start a 3-day prep course for the Minor Field Studies stipendium. The MFS is funding for Swedes (and people from other nordic countries can apply as well) who want to do research abroad as part of writing their theses ( Read more... ) -
Merry Christmas!
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Easter break
Today we took off for our long-awaited Easter trip! We're spending three nights in Göteborg with Gerda's brother who's studying there, three nights in Oslo with her sister who's working there, then three nights at her parents' new summer cottage near Västervik.
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Time in Canada
We're enjoying our trip to Canada so far. We've had four Christmases (one in Sweden, one with Mom's family, one with Dad's family and one with family friends) and a good New Years (spent midnight in a hot tub ( Read more... ) -
Thanksgiving at Lingonboet
Had a wonderful thanksgiving dinner here with friends and family - feels like home :)
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Swedish Indoctrination lesson: skiing holiday
Gerda and I are up in The North of Sweden with her parents this week on a skiing holiday. We're near Funäsdalen and Ramundberget - a 10 hour drive from their home. We've rented a lovely little cottage (complete with sauna!) and plan on spending every day outdoors enjoying the snow.
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The path is anything but clear
Currently I'm teaching 10 hours a week (plus prep) and studying Swedish 22 hours a week (plus homework). I'm fairly busy, but not breaking even ( Read more... ) -
Settling in to a rythym
So, in the past two weeks I've started both my jobs, signed up for Swedish classes and registered with the employment office. I've also 'got' two more jobs with schools that just don't have any hours to offer me right now and just now I got an email job offer in my inbox to be a part-time examiner for Cambridge exams of English ( Read more... ) -
Home in Uppsala
We have returned from our trip hiking in the mountains in the north of Sweden. You can see the photos on my google plus account (kehope). It was fun, though my biggest complaint was that it was cold. I'm a hot weather person - happiest over 25 C. In the mountains it was 10-15 in the days and down to 5 or so at night (one night I noticed frost ( Read more... )
