30 avril 2006
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19:17
We have only a few weeks to get ready for the welcome celebrations of Spring, whether it is bright sunshine or snow storms. It is time for Valborgsmässoafton, or Walpurgis night, celebrated especially in the university’s cities on the last day of April, or “Siste April” as it is called in
Swedish. You should book the entire day in your calendar, and probably a part for the following day as well, for these festivities.
One way of starting the day is with a traditional sill (herring) picnic breakfast in Stadsparken early in the morning sun (hopefully). You will see that it doesn’t matter how the weather is, everybody will be wearing their newly purchased flowery summer dresses or light coloured linen jackets anyway. Go on celebrating with outdoor games, the nation’s form of Olympics, at the sport’s arena (Idrottsplatsen). After the Olympics follows the yearly speech given by the vice-chairman of the Student Unions, on the balcony of the AF-building. The traditional choir “studentsångarna”, will then sing and everybody will put their student caps on. For this is the only day of the year during which the Swedish students get to wear their student caps, the white (or yellowish, depending on the age of the wearer) caps all Swedish high school graduates receive on the last day of school. A perfect Walpurgis Night ends with one of the nation’s spring balls at Grand Hotel or in the AF building. Only a few of the nations actually arrange their ball on this night, while others have theirs some time during April. If you are not lucky enough to experience a spring ball, you can still enjoy looking at the formal dressed students on their way to their romantic evening. Or you can go to Stadsparken and look at the bonfires which are typical of Valborgsmässoafton all over the country.
An important fact, which is often forgotten in Lund, is that April 30 happens to be the birthday of King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden. The celebrations, however, do not end with that day, it continues on May 1. You have a second chance to listen to “Studentsångarna”. If we are lucky, the magnolias will bloom as a proof that spring really has come. During the last week of April you will meet schoolchildren insisting on selling you “May flowers”, or Majblommor, i.e. small coloured plastic flowers. Those are sold to raise money for the struggle against children’s diseases and disability. A very worthy and very affordable cause, as well as a very established tradition.
30 avril 2006
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19:00
Im a bit under presseure these times and don´t really have any minuts to write what´s going on. sorry.
in short version:
- today, it´s the king´s birthday
- it´s also the last day of april
- it´s raining again and again
- and euh... falcon and pripps blå are bad beers. ;)
27 avril 2006
4
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13:04
the king of Sweden, who will be 60 soon, forgot to pay the fuel in Norway... :)here is the story in swedish:
Chauffören glömde betala för bensinen på norsk mack.
Kungen och drottningen tog en springnota på macken i Levanger i Norge i påskas.
Med full tank och det svenska kungaparet som passagerare drog chauffören iväg utan att ha betalt för bensinen.
Han betalade bara för godiset han köpt inne på macken.
Bilden på kung Carl Gustaf dök upp på filmerna från bensinmackens övervakningskamera. Personalen som tittade igenom dem för att spåra kunder som tankat och kört iväg utan att betala, visste först inte vad de skulle tro.
Men det var verkligen den svenske kungen och drottning Silvia som satt i bilen.
Det skriver den norska tidningen Trønder-Avisa idag.
När det svenska kungaparet som vanligt tillbringade påsken i Storlien bestämde de sig för en dagstur till Trondheim i Norge tillsammans med vänner och livvakter.
Det var under den turen som det kungliga blamaget inträffade.
Har gjort rätt för sig
När personalen på macken hörde av sig till hovet om den obetalda räkningen blev chauffören tvungen att gå igenom sina papper för att försöka komma ihåg tillfället. Det visade sig att han inte hade betalt.
- Efter att ha fyllt på bensin gick chauffören, en vän till kungen, in för att hamstra litet godis och betala. Han betalade bara för godiset utan att tänka på det. Sen gick han ut och körde vidare, säger hovets presschef Nina Eldh till Trønder-Avisen.
Hovet har nu gjort rätt för sig, rapporterar VG Nett.
All that means that the chaufför paid the food that they bought at the station but not the fuel :D ahahAAHAHA it´s well known that Norway is a big fuel productor, so a bit less or more... what´s the difference! :D i alla fall, it´s the first page of the pappers here because some abusive uses of power are severelly juged over here.
27 avril 2006
4
27
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12:58
1. Can you tell me a little bit about yourself?
2. Can you name three positive things about yourself?
3. Can you name three weaknesses?
4. What have you done in earlier jobs that shows that you take initiative?
5. How do you react on criticism?
6. How would your best friend/boyfriend/girlfriend describe you?
7. Describe the job of your dreams!
8. Can you define success?
9. Can you define setback or tell us about a setback that you have experienced?
10. Which types of people do you get along with? and which don't you?
11. What motivates you at work?
12. What makes you frustrated or upset?
13. Which role do you usually take in a group?
14. How do you feel about talking in front of a group? If you have before, how did you prepare?
15. What do you do in your sparetime? do you have any hobby?
16. How do you want your work to develop?
17. Where do you see yourself in 5, 10 years?
18. Can you describe what education you have, and why you choose to study what you did?
19. How does your grades look, are you happy with them?
20. How are your language skills?
21. Have you been engaged in any projects or organisations, and in that case what have your work meant?
22. Have you had any extra jobs while studying?
23. Which type of a boss do you prefer?
24. Which typ of a job interest you the most?
25. What did your job as a boss mean?
26. How come you're trying to get the job as a boss here?
27. Have you ever quitted a job? in that case why?
28. Have you worked with a deadline, and in that case how did you organise your work?
29. How do you react on stress, and how do you handle it?
30. How would earlier employers describe your work?
31. Describe a situation where a colleague have asked you for help!
32. There's a period of your life in the cv where you don't describe what you did. Why is that?
33. What kind of a job are you looking for, and have you applied for any other jobs than this?
34. Which possibilities of development is there within your sector?
35. Which are the most important rewards you expect from work?
36. Do you prefer big or small companies?
37. Can you shortely describe your earlier jobs, what the companies worked with, your role, and why you moved on?
38. What are you doing at your current job?
39. Why did you get the job that you have today?
40. What do you know about us?
41. Why do you want to work for us?
42. What is so good about this particular job, and why do u want it?
43. According to your papers you are over-qualified, how do you feel about that?
44. Why should we hire you?
45. Which part of the company or which particular job do are you most interested in?
46. Are you willing to work overtime?
47. Which type of environment do you like the most?
48. Which 3 demands do you expect from your employer?
49. Did you miss any of the 3 demands with your earlier employers?
50. Do you have any references I can call?
51. Is there anything else I should know about you?
52. Do you have any more questions?
53. When can you start?
23 avril 2006
7
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/2006
12:40
hi,
i was travelling the last 15 days, had no camera with, all the picts are in my head :)
now it´s time for me to think hard about my future and also to perfect my swedish, exam is coming soon, i have to be good :P
9 avril 2006
7
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15:38
That´s hwat i´m reading / listenning right now.
The fifth woman is a crime roman. Here comes the résumé:
Four nuns and a fifth woman, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage night-time attack. Months later in Sweden, the news of the unexplained tragedy sets off a cruel vengeance for these killings.Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future. Autumn settles over the province of Skåne, and Wallander prays the winter will be peaceful. But when he investigates the disappearance of an elderly bird-watcher he discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder - a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles. Then another man is reported missing. And once again, Wallander's life is on hold as he and his close knit team work tirelessly to find a link between the series of viscous murders. Making progress not through revelation but through dogged police work, and forever battling to make sense of the violence of modern Sweden, Wallander will lead a massive investigation to find a killer whose crimes are the product of the new realities that make him despair.I can sadly remark that all the Wallander books are written with the same structure, it´s a bit dissapointing. But now that I live in this area, i´m more afraid :DD
and i can also notice some swedish ways... :))
5 avril 2006
3
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15:56
in some times, i´ll have to speak with a real swede about euh, i don´t really know what now and it´s stressing a bit!! i have paid ihm for it but he will decide from my future with the swedish... hoohohoh
this first and only date will be important!! :D
29 mars 2006
3
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14:12
yes, the spring is well hidden!!
20 mars 2006
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12:05
i watched this film yesterday, it was quite good and sometimes i was a bit lost in the story. but i liked.
The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settle his affairs.
more
here
17 mars 2006
5
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/2006
16:54
hi,
i´m right now reading this book
Att komma hem ska vara en schlager by
Per Hagman and it´s quite funny. This is the story of a 33 years old swede, who lived a lot between France and Sweden. He´s a bit bored by his life style and try to find his right place and does travel a lot in train around France. Through the book, he explains what he did before, how was his life
I think he´s a clever swede: he can distinguishe the qualities and pervers sides from the french (but this, all the foreign people can do it, you just have not to feel french patriotic :) ) and he also does enounce some strange sides from Sweden, that I remarked myself before. I mean, he´s clever because to have distance with his own country and homeland, it´s not common. Most of the time, anyway what happen, people feels strong associated with their land and cannot see the bad sides.
Some examples:
Fransmännens arabrädsla verkar ibland nästan vara större än amerikanernas, men förmodligen beror der bara på att den är djupt rotad i foksjälen att den blivit lika ihåligt pittoresk som baskern med baguetten.
The fear of arabers from the french is sometimes bigger than this one from the americaners but it´s maybe just because it´s deep in the people mind that it has been deep dug like the basques and their baguettes.
Innan jag kom till Marseille trodde jag att det arabiskt elle snarare kabiliskt präglade barlivet skulle te sig ungefär som det i Barbès eller Belleville i Paris. Men det här är alldeles magiskt annorlunda.
Before I arrived in Marseille, i believed that the arab or at least the invented cabilist bar -life will be nearly the same as this one in Barbès or Belleville in Paris. But, it was completly magically different.
Tyvärr blir jag efter mina första dagar i denna romantiskt hårda stad mer och mer uppskrämd av varje fransk taxichaufför, fransk hotellportier eller fransk bartender jag träffar. Alltid samma dialog. "första gången du är i Marseille?" "Ja." "Akta dig för araberna!"
Unfortunatly , after my first days in this romantic ciyt I became more and more afraid of every french taxi-driver, french hotell-groom or french bartender that I could meet. Always the same speach. "first time in Marseille?" "yes" "take care of the arabs!"
Allt strålande borta och allt grått framträder så tydligt ellle lindar liksom in mig i mörka slöjor: videobutiker, minimalism, kvinnor som är stolta över att inte göra sig vackra, Seven Eleven, Dagens Nyheter, Absolut Vodka, bake-up ciabatt i plast, storkök och veganer, gråmulen februarieftermiddag i Stockholm. allt så tomt och grått att man hjälplös vill lägga sig ner och gråta som ett litet barn.
All the shines away and grey appears so clear or happens like in me in a dark voile: videoshop, minimalism, women who are proud not to make themself beautiful, Seven Eleven, Dagens Nyheter, Absolut vodka, bake-up ciabatta in a plastic, grey clouds in a februar afternoon in Stockholm. all so empty and grey that one will just helpless sitt down and cry like a litle child.
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