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 [...]

Stockholm is further north than Toronto. Further up north means longer days in the summer and longer nights in the winter. In fact, in midsummer we have about 18 hours of light.
The sun started rising earlier from the equinox.
Today the sun rose at 5:02am here in Stockholm. It will rise at 6:16 in Toronto. That’s [...]

Last night we watched Prozac Nation and I have to say that in the end, I found it a bit disappointing. I was hoping that it would show that pills are not the answer. But instead it felt more like an advertisement for Prozac.
I can’t really say that Prozac is not the way to go [...]

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 [...]

We’ve all seen them out on the streets. Kids with enough metal in their faces to set off the metal detectors at airports while they’re still at home.
At one point in time I thought I wanted to have all sorts of piercings but then I found out that I’m actually allergic to surgical steel and [...]

Tonight I tried to make teriyaki chicken from scratch. It turned out pretty well. I got the recipe for the teriyaki sauce from Japanese Cooking by Emi Kazuko. The original plan was to make chicken yakitori but then I thought about my incident with skewers this past summer and I decided against the skewering. I [...]

Fredrik and I are watching Octopussy. They have been showing James Bond movies on TV every Saturday. In Octopussy, James goes to East Germany. My question is, during the Soviet ruling, did the Germans there have to learn Russian??
I was really young when there was an eastern block. I remember asking my mother about why [...]