Author theswedishlad

Youtube World Project 2020

In 2015 I completed the Youtube World Project, where I sought to collect messages from as many places in the world as possible. It ended up at 126 different places. Since then, I have collected additional places as well as… Continue Reading →

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 →

Stay alive with me

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. I did not know this until right after lunch, and the thought that hit me then was that of coincidence. Last night I placed my old video camera on a tripod in front of… 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 →

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