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My brother arrived yesterday and after we picked him up, brought him home, fed him, and got things settled, Karin decided it would be the ideal time to start his Swedish lessons. She climbed into his lap in the big chair with her Barnens engelska ordbok A-Z (Children’s English Wordbook) and proceeded to go through the words with him, one by one, laughing and grimacing at his pronunciations. The books is divided into chapters by letters and consists of page after page of pictures with the English word under it and the Swedish translation written beneath that. There are about...

10 years ago today I arrived in Sweden. Anders had gone ahead of me, arriving on New Year’s Day since he had to start work, and I was still at my parent’s house helping my mom deal with the aftermath of my dad’s death 2 weeks earlier. We went straight from the airport to the hospital to greet the arrival of his sister’s newborn baby, who celebrated his 10th birthday yesterday. 10 years! I didn’t know it would be that long. I have lived abroad for 16 years of my life now. 3 years ago I wrote a post that...

What do you say when you come into the office and see your colleagues for the first time each day? You say, “Good morning!” am I right? Sometimes you say it in a chirpy, perky voice (if you are not me) and sometimes you say it in a “wannamakesomethingofit” way and sometimes you slur your way through it, and sometimes you just abbreviate it: “Morn” as you walk by, open the door to your room or turn into your cubicle or hang up your jacket and turn your monitor on. In Swedish, “good morning” is God morgon but when it...

This has the been the eatingest weekend in ages. I’m stuffed. We had lunch today at a semi-fancy buffet place in honor of Ander’s dad, who turned 80 this year. (the party was postponed a bit from his actual birthday because they were out of town then). The food was fabulous and I had to FORCIBLY restrain my tongue (I gave it a good talking-to! haha) from trying to run rampant and just keep eating until there was NO MORE. Best pork fillet with rosepepper gravy I’ve ever had. Best apple crumble pie with vanilla sauce I’ve ever had. That’s...