Signs you’ve been living in Sweden…   Your husband: - goes jogging in the forest - operates a washing machine - changes as many nappies as you do - eats ice cream (the main food group in Sweden) whenever he can - has a collection of ’good’ plastic bags that he takes to the shop   Your children: [...]

One of my favourite things at LiU are the well equipped student kitchens. They even have fridges, so you can BYO lunch and store it. There are also microwaves so you can heat it up. There are sinks, so you can fill up your own water bottle, and tables to sit down and enjoy your [...]

As I said previously, the previous weeks have been really dedicated to the master thesis. For a ‘Pre-Final seminar’, our supervisor, Marie Bengtsson, asked to provide her with a complete version of our thesis by April 30th. To describe what she expects, she uses the metaphor of a Swiss cheese: our thesis can have holes [...]

    Since Linköping HA HA with Al Pitcher, I’m being a bit more aware of what Swedes say… and how weird it sounds. For instance, the Swedish sayings turn out to be pretty fun (!!): Ingen ko på isen – “There’s no cow on the ice”. It simply means “Don’t worry”. It kinda makes [...]

The most important and big event on this trip was to see the Northern Lights which is also known as “Aurora“. The Aurora often appears around 10PM. We have started observing Aurora around 9PMto make sure our equipment such as camera, tripod has set. Our observation team had waited more than two to three hours [...]

There was a lot of free time prior to the next event in Lapland so we have decided to walk around the hostel. In fact, there were plenty of spot to visit around Kiruna.   When we walk past the little forest, there was a beautiful landscape which contains mountain, snow and sunlight. Since it [...]

I had booked my time, I tried to translate my CV in Swedish by myself, prepared a few copies, got to the Career Centrum and guess what? I had spent almost two hours there re-writing it, re-organising it, receiving tips about how to find a job in the city, how should I approach people and [...]

“Excellent memory; strong math aptitude; excellent memory; effective management skills; and very good at math.”   Every time I needed at the beginning, the University was there to help. Seriously. Let’s say that you have just moved to Italy and you are looking for a job. Let’s say that you come from Iceland and you [...]