A friend of mine from SFI works part-time at a daycare. In all honesty, she’s over qualified for this job and she knows it. But while she hasn’t mastered the Swedish language and the schools she wants to teach at hasn’t hired her yet, she works at this daycare. I hope she gets a teaching [...]

I’m supposed to do this write up in Swedish and send it to my teacher and I frankly cannot do it at the present moment. I tried to work on my homework earlier and my brain has just gone completely blank. I’ll do the write up tomorrow and hope that my brain will be functioning.
Fredrik’s [...]

This is my first relationship where I live with the person I’m in a relationship with. Those who have lived with someone who is not from the family will know that at times it can be quite unbearable to live with someone else. What am I saying?? Living with someone from the family can down [...]

I’ve never actually had Spam. But I did grow up eating luncheon meat. In Hong Kong, luncheon meat is like a breakfast meat. My dad used to make luncheon meat and eggs on Sunday mornings or put a slice of pan fried luncheon meat in our instant noodle.
You can imagine my excitement when I found [...]

I wanted to make some sort of dish with coconut milk and shrimp and I ended up with something that is more like Thai coconut soup. It actually turned out much better than I had originally expected.
I started by marinating shelled tiger shrimps with garlic, chilli pepper flakes, a bit of salt, some crushed lemon [...]

I was just out at the shops and I spoke Swedish to everyone I talked to and let me tell you, it feels great to speak Swedish. Maybe it’s just me but it makes me feel really good to be able to be part of the society I am living in. I may not be [...]

Hej! Jag heter Wendy. Jag är tjugofyra år gammal. Jag kommer från Kanada. Jag har varit i Sverige i sex månader. Jag studerar i Västerås. Jag läser Svenska språket och kulturen. Jag tar tåget dit från Stockholm när jag har lektion.
I Kanada bodde jag med min mamma, pappa och min lillebror. De bor nära Toronto [...]