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!

Roma and Easter at Fiskebäckskil

Hej Hej,

After 8 days in Roma, 4 on the Western Coast, I’m still in Holidays and about to visit Copenhagen this weekend.

There are so many things to say but let’s start with Roma.

As I said I moved there with my class for 8 days, we were 32 students, 2 other “help students”, 2 teachers and this trip was probably one of my best scholar one. We visited so many places like the Coliseum, the casa Romani, the Vatican, Trevis’ fountain, the Forum Romano, the catacombs, St Peter’s church and we’d also been to Pompeii to visit the city destroyed by the volcano a thousand years ago. We also saw the Pope when we were in the Vatican. Every mid-day and every evening we were totally free and it was the occasion to eat with the class, with some friends in restaurants to degust Italian pasta and pizza! I loved this trip because it was my second time in Roma and it’s a city I really like but the most important thing in that trip according to me was the atmosphere and the relationships between everybody in the class. It was the opportunity to discover more and more the class and it was just fantastic! I really “love” my class!!! (Thank you to all of them) Furthermore during this week I also talked a lot of Swedish, I think that I really made some progresses! A last point is that it was the first time that I enjoyed so much going to a warm and sunny place. In Roma it was 25 degrees and a huge sun everyday but in Stockholm it’s now really cloudy and we had a little bit snow some days ago.

Anyway I will never forget this trip and I will never forget my class… never ever!!!

The day after Roma I directly leaved to the West coast with Alex’s family (my Canadian friend). We were in a small fisherman village: Fiskebäckskil. It was actually a really cute place. Melodie from France also joined us for two days. It was a kind of “break time”. Being in the country side, speaking some French and just having fun, talking, having some walks on the beach. It was really nice.

This weekend in Fiskebäckskil was also the Easter weekend so we ate some typical Swedish Easter food. Not that different than Christmas food, the Easter one is also really simple. As well if you spend an Easter to Sweden you will probably eat some (real) eggs, some salmon, some potatoes, some meat bowls, and some lamb meal. You will also probably drink some special “Easter juice” as for Christmas and some “snaps” of strong liquors.

I would like to thanks Alex and Alex’s host parents for welcomed me at their summer place.

I’m now in holiday until Monday and I’m spending some calms days in Stockholm. This weekend I will visit Copenhagen with my host family. I heard that it’s a really nice city, will see that!

Fast news before Roma!

Hej Hej!

Sorry for those two weeks without news.

First of all let’s go back two weeks ago on the Thursday. Every year in Stockholm there is a little international skiing competition in the middle of Stockholm, around the king’s place. That’s the reason why two weeks ago was surrounded by artificial snow whereas the weather was around 10 degrees. I watch the final with some friends, it wasn’t a huge competition but it was really fun to see all that snow in the middle of the city with this nice weather. A Norwegian athlete won the competition.

Two days later, on the Saturday, a movie was played in my street and in my school, for this occasion there were false snow and cameras in a part of the street and the school as you can see on the pictures. The movie’s name is “hypnotisören” and it’s a story from the same name’s book wrote by Karl Kepler. (“the hypnotist” in English, “l’hypnotiseur” in French) A famous Swedish actor was also there: Mikael Persbrandt.

On the following Sunday I’ve been watching my little host sister playing soccer and she plays really well!

Concerning the weather, the nice days start to arrive: More sun and between 5 to 15 degrees even if we had a “last” small snow storm on Monday.

Anyway Wednesday I’m  going to Roma for 8 days with my class and I think that it’s gonna be awesome!

See you in 2 weeks so and enjoy the nice weather!

Snow rugby in Finland



view of Jyväskylä



Hej hej!

After one week I finally find the courage to write a new article about my rugby’s tournament in Finland.

So on Thursday evening (2 weeks ago) we were 9 guys of my team reunited in order to take the ferry boat to Finland to play a 7 player’s rugby’s tournament. After a wonderful and small night on the ferry we arrived at 6 o’clock Swedish time in the harbor of Turku, situated in the North on Helsinki. From there we had to take a bus to go to the city of Jyväskylä (middle of Finland). After 5 hours of sleeping we arrived at our hotel and had some great time at the sauna and at the swimming pool.



preparation before the match



Friday morning, after a good night and a great breakfast we took the bus to go to the tiny skiing station of the city where the two rugby’s fields were situated. Here the weather was perfect and the temperature was around minus 2 degrees.

Many people were there, maybe 200. Our first match was at 9.20 so we get prepared, trained and then we played our three matches during the morning… And we loosed everything. But I should say that we were all 18-19 years old and it was a Senior tournament so we only played against some 25-35 years old guys! Anyway, after a cold afternoon to wait to watch the final we’ve all been to the tournament party in a night club of the city and it was pretty cool.

After a short night we took the bus on Sunday morning to get back to the harbor and take the ferry again. We arrived at Stockholm Monday morning at 7 o’clock local time, one hour before starting school. Obviously Monday was a tough day and my bed was really welcome after school.

Thanks to this tournament I discovered Finland and it’s also really beautiful! (But I prefer Sweden!)

Those days with my team also created a real team spirit and cohesion in our group which will be, I think, really important for next season! Thank you very much to Hammaby rugby and to Johnny for this trip!

Otherwise we now have nice weather in Stockholm (5-10 degrees) and the following weeks (in two weeks and after) will be really full especially by my trips to Roma, to Copenhagen, the visit of my family and the visit of Marie!!!

To finish this article I just would like to wish a Happy birthday to my little sister Camille who turn  15 tomorrow!

See you soon!