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How is Sweden?

A Brazilian perspective I often get questions about Sweden, the Swedish language and what Swedish people are like. I mean, that’s essentially what a big portion of my channel TheSwedishLad has been about in the last decade. How is Sweden?… Continue Reading →

How’s your Quarantine?

PART 2 “How’s your quarantine” is a project where I had video calls with people around the world to hear about their experiences with the Covid-19 pandemic, what restrictions they have in their countries and how they spend their days,… Continue Reading →

How’s your Quarantine?

PART 1 “How’s your quarantine” is a project where I had video calls with people around the world to hear about their experiences with the Covid-19 pandemic, what restrictions they have in their countries and how they spend their days,… Continue Reading →

Learning Icelandic in 1 week

Is it possible to learn enough of a foreign language in one week to be able to have a conversation? Well, my Polish friend Aldona challenged me to this so with fewer distractions than normal due to the coronavirus pandemic,… Continue Reading →

This was my 2019

2019 was in many ways an intense year. I had a silly idea of wanting to visit a new country every month, seeing how I had some travel plans already in the beginning of the year. The most notable way… Continue Reading →

Spreading good vibes

I want to write about the future, based on three different encounters I had last Friday. This text can be viewed in video form below from my Good Talk Youtube channel. Be sure to subscribe for more food for thought…. Continue Reading →

Greta Thunberg and doing something meaningful

Greta Thunberg has now been on a school strike for 47 weeks. What started as a personal response to the inability of the Swedish government to get in line with the Paris agreement before the Swedish general election, has grown… Continue Reading →

My own inability

Today is April 16, exactly 12 years after that fateful snowy morning in Blacksburg, Virginia. I had arrived the night before with my classmate Carl for a one-week exchange. We woke up early and decided to take a walk around… Continue Reading →

Staying relevant

I’ve noticed it more and more among friends and acquaintances in my age, or at least starting in their mid 30s. This feeling of settling. The feeling of not wanting to keep up with everything new. And to a certain… Continue Reading →

Our many faces

As people, we act in many different ways depending on the situation, how comfortable we are in the space and who we interact with. We have different ways of interacting with parents (at various stages of life), our work colleagues,… Continue Reading →

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