Traditions of Sweden

Good day :). Here I'm back in the southern part of Sweden, has a spring now this coming week so I'm visting my hometown. Usually here's a lot warmer then in the middle and northern parts of Sweden but this winter heres actually some snow! But that's not what this contribution is about, today I'm thought I write some of the predjudice against Swedish and tell you whats true and false.


Everybody loves sport
No, no, no! But like most of the people around the world we don't like sitting still. So we do things. Some learn how to paly the guitarr, some practice sports and some just work to much.

They have lots of strange animlas over there
Depends on how you see it. If you from Asia of course our animals look strange. But your animls look strange to us. It's depends on were you from. But we DON'T live among ice bears, for the sake of love they live on antarctic.
 
They are very rich
Yes and no. Some are, some aren't. We live in a good country, with a nice gouverment, sometimes to nice if you ask me. They provide benefit to them how need some helps. But it's not like everybody lives in luxury. Sweden is often called "landet lagom" which means "country not to much, not to littel, not rich, but not etc."

They are very goodlooking
Of course we're! So much prettier then any nationality! I have nothing to say to this one...

Most people are blond
And every one has blue eyes and every girl has big breast. Sorry guys, but no. And the girls not easy to get in bed in either (with also is a very common prejudice). We have brown hair, red hair, blonde hair, black hair, green hair, blur eyes, grey eyes, small breast etc. Hope you get the picture...

The sun always goes down very early
Again NO! On the winter season, we don't have so much sun (and yes it's depressing), but in the summer the sun is up a lot more. A lot!

We get messy when we're drunk
Yeah... Most Swedish actually do. Kind of sad that they can't handle themself when they drunk.

Swedish people are very reserved
This one also true. We have an attitude of "what's personal is personal and I have nothing to do with it". And we're shy, very shy. But we don't mean anything wrong, most people has just been learned that you don't ask about personal things.

Henrik Lunqvist after the gold in OS Turin.

There are some places you can visit when you're in Sweden. This places I also want to see or have already seen.

First of all I think you just have to visit Stockholm. It's a beautiful capital were you can just relax and take it easy. If you getting boered of that you're still in a big city with all the actions that comes along.



Then we have Liseberg. An amusment park in Gothenborg (Sweden second placed large city). This park is so beautiful at christmas time and it's so really funny in the summer. It's a perfect place to bring the hole family.



Another place thats also beautiful both on the summer and the winter is Åre. On the winter is a paradise for skiing (if you don't compare it to the Alps, cause nothing beats that). They have nice pistes and a gosy enivronment. On the summer is as beautiful a mountains are at this time. You can hike, camp or maybe climb. It has a relaxing effect on you.



The last place that I think is a tourist place is Ishotellet. Which is a place I havn't been to, but hopefullt one day I will. Ishotellet lays in the nouthern parts of Sweden and it's made of ice. Everything is made of ice. If you're luck maybe you can see the northern lights, thats one of my oldest dreams.



Of course there are many other stuff you can visit, if you like to camp we have some beautiful lakes and woods. The coasts are beautiful, both east, south and west. We have the two other big cities, Gothenborg and Malmö, that both has their special personality.

You know there are a few word in swedish that dosen't exist in english? So I thought I would explain those words and tell you something about how we celebrate our national day :).

I've already told one reason why the 6th of June is our national day. Of course there are more then one reason. The 6th of June is the date when the constitution that describes how our democracy should work was accepted. Until the year 2005 the national day only was a flagday. There have been some critic to the fact that when the natinal day became a holiday another holiday disapperad and that made some people angry.

Now the swedish national day isn't celebrated in any bigger scale. Most people dosen't even know why we celebrate it the 6th of June. Some people think is a bad date, cause Gustav Vasa (he's the historic reason) wasn't king over Sweden as it looks today. I don't celebrate it, but I think it should be a holiday since it's a way of show that you like your country.



Some words tha dosen't exist in english are:
Lagom: Not too much or to little. You can translate it to english depending in with pupose it's in.
Saft: A drink that contains water, suger and some kind of flavour
Jo: You can use it to answer your on question or to say against a negative answer.
Then we have all these compoud words, since swedish are a compound language. But they can be transleted with two or more words.

What I think is the funny part is hat yu can make you own words. Just put one word together with another. That's cool!

Another great Monday :), great because I start school 12.00 and that's awsome :). I thought I should write a bit about the swedish politic and how our economy look for the moment. Won't be as boring as it sounds. Promise! Tomorrow I'm planing to write something about how the swedish school-system works. A request from Wanda :).

First we have our parlament, riksdagen, where all party (that got more then 4% in the election) are making decisions. Then we have the government, regeringen, that won the election and they do a lot of things but above all they carry out the decisions from riksdagen.



Right now we have many parties that cooperat in regeringen, so called Alliansen (the four parties to the right). But in September we're having a new election and right now it looks like the Oppostionen (the three parties to the left) are goning to win. But with politic you never know.

Just like many other countries Sweden is in a recession. With a high level of unemployment it's hard for young and middle-aged to make it go around. Hopefully it's going the right way!

Sweden has two car producers, Saab and Volvo. For as long as every Swedish remember their have been a war... Wich one is better then the other?



Everyone driving a Saab is gay, according to the Volvo owners... Everyone driving a Volvo is a poor farmer, according to the Saab owners...

It's going good for Volvo, still selling a few cars and making updates. Saab strukling for survival, now they have a new owner so hopefully they don't go bankruptcy. And they have some awsome cars coming...

Both have power, both have style, both have comfort, but they ain't got any class. So skipp Sweden cars, go Germany, go BMW...

Hi! Let's have some fun gepgraphy :).




Sweden is in Europe, I hope you already know that, and it's a oblong land from south to north. In north there is a lot of snow and woods, but if you like big cities you should go south. Here you got more people living, more fields and a warmer climate.

We have a beautiful coasts in both west and east. The east coast have brackish water, it's mixed with lake water. On the west side their more seawater. Both extremly wonderful in summertime. In the south their is also a beautiful coast and often tourits bicycles here on their vacation.

On the winter we have some beautiful skiresorts. The biggest is Åre and Sälen. I'm spoild with the Alps and swedish mountain is nothing compare to that. But they're alright. Not the biggest but still great slops and a cosy enviroment.