Läroverksfejden

Hej Hej,

I hope you are having a great weekend, mine is perfect: long, warm and a lot of sun!

Otherwise let’s talk about the event of last week: läroverksfejden. You might probably not know that so let me explain. This event is an annual competition between the 4 best schools in Stockholm: Sodra Latin, Ostrareal, Kungsolmen and mine: Norra Real. This competition (100% organized by the students) is divided in many days and many different categories like soccer, dance, running, singing, general knowledge… 

just a small picture of my school

So last week was the “final day” which is usually the soccer competition. So for this day all the schools had rented a stadium, a real one where the police was guarding the entrance and where we needed a ticket to get in! Every school arrived with his colors and huge flags, I think that we were maybe 1500 students here, even more! The entire school walked together from the school to the stadium, dressed in black and white (my school color), singing, screaming… it was really a huge and great feeling! My school didn’t win, we arrived to the final and loosed at the penalty. But it was just amazing to see how the students are free to organize this type of event.

(you can have a look at the small video that I made to have an idea of the ambiance)

Otherwise as I said the weather is now so nice in Stockholm, warm and sunny! Maybe too much sunny, the sky is now blue until eleven and starts to be blue again at two o’clock in the morning as you can see on the following picture. Last night I forget to close my curtains and the light woke me up around ten past two and I took that picture by my window. (The sun is up in the sky at 4 o'clock!)

Stockholm in May: 2 in the morning

We can also notice that in the North of Sweden, there is now light all of the time! Anyway I really enjoy Stockholm during the summer; it’s so nice with the water, the open flower and the great number of trees and parks.

In 6 weeks I won’t be any more in Sweden but I’m totally enjoying those last weeks, I hope you are all having also such a great time!

See you soon!

Welcome!

Hejsan,

me and my girlfriend

I’m sorry I didn’t have a lot of time to write this week because of the National Exams (The Swedish “equivalent” for the French BAC). So today I’ll talk about the recent visits that I received from France.

The first one was three weeks ago and it was my girlfriend from France who came for the first time. I know that it can seem totally crazy to have been together for 8 months without meeting but… we did it! I was a little stress and anxious before the weekend because I really didn’t know how it could be after 8 months but finally it was nearly like if we hadn’t see each other since the day before. We weren’t stranger to each other and it was really nice. It was really short, only 2 days to visit Stockholm and furthermore we had only rain and snow. Anyway the principal was to be here together!

The second visit came one week after the second one, and it was from my family. Victor, Segolène, Marine, Camille, Mum and Dad came for 5 days in Stockholm where they rented an apartment. Here again I had the same feeling as one week before with Marie: it was nearly exactly before I left. It’s actually a hard feeing to describe but let’s say that: before meeting everybody I expected a big change or whatever in everybody’s behavior and physical appearance.  But finally it was still (which is really good) the family and the girlfriend that I knew before. Of course everybody has been growing up a bit but we weren’t stranger. Anyway, I’m digressing from the original subject. When my family came the weather was much better than the past days. It was sunny every day and the temperature was around 15 degrees. The week also happened really fast, we had been visiting Stockholm together ans just enjoying that time.

Now everybody is back in France, I was so happy to receive those two visits; we had such a great time. Now the end of this year is approaching, in 7 weeks I won’t be any more in Sweden but in Berlin for 3 days with 450 other European exchange students, celebrating my year before my come back in France. The school is soon over too, I will just enjoy those last weeks with all my friends, Swedish and exchange students, and then… lets the life continue! I start to feel slowly this strange feeling divided between the excitation of coming back and this small sadness that this exceptional year is soon over. But I know it’s the way it’s supposed to be and I still have a lot of adventures to leave here in Sweden and also in the following years!

I still have many things to write so I’ll have to do it soon.

See you.

me and my family

Weekend in Copenhagen

weather in stockholm before leaving

Okay so let’s go back in the time, 3 weeks ago, Saturday 21st of April. My host grandmother received for her birthday, in November, a family weekend in Copenhagen. That’s the reason we went there.
The trip began Saturday morning with a heavy snow storm in Stockholm which delayed the flight of 2 hours.  Fortunately the weather was much better when we arrived in Denmark. After having drop the luggage at the hotel we met the family for lunch. We were 15: aunts, uncles, cousins, everybody.
The weekend happened really fast, it was only 24 hours here but it was really nice! We visited many museums, had some walks and “fika” (* see my first article in Sweden) in the city. We also spent the evening at Tivoli which the amusement park of Copenhagen, it's not a big one but it was actually really funny, we had some great time!

This weekend was small but I really enjoyed it, I discovered a new capital, I’ve been in a new country, I'd like to thanks my host family. However I still prefer Stockholm which is according to me more characteristic of “Scandinavian Cities”.
It’s not a big article but I’ll try to write more this week if I have enough time because I still have many things to write about.
Enjoy the pictures and see you soon!

Many news soon!

Hej everybody,
I'm so sorry but due to a virus my computer had been out of service for some weeks. I will soon write one or some new articles because I have many things to talk about: differents visits from France, Visit in Copenhagen, the arrival of the spring and the time which is  running out so fast...
See you soon!