Study abroad in Sweden (time)

[internat]

Trevligt.

Stockholm is indeed beautiful with its archipelago. Nature is close almost wherever you go. The air is fresh (except maybe Hornsgatan) and streets are quite clean.

May I ask why you emigrated to USA and how would you compare it to living in Sweden?

It should be mentioned most of the people come to study at postgraduate level. Undergraduate courses are usually taught in Swedish which although similar to English is difficult to master.

Originally Posted by NorthNJ

I was born in Stockholm, Sweden and lived there for 16 years until I moved to USA last year. Stockholm is one of the worlds wonderful capital cities.
The food is greit! People are good-looking and nice. There are many things to do in Stockholm and rest of Sweden. SVERIGE ÄR BÄST!

[bluepacific]

Originally Posted by NorthNJ

I was born in Stockholm, Sweden and lived there for 16 years until I moved to USA last year. Stockholm is one of the worlds wonderful capital cities. The food is greit! People are good-looking and nice. There are many things to do in Stockholm and rest of Sweden. SVERIGE ÄR BÄST!

I just went through Stockholm about three weeks ago. I can't say really anything about the city as we were just passing through on our way to Helsinki. One of the most memorable and pleasent dining experiences I've ever enjoyed was on the Viking Line trip over to Finland. We were in the restaurant buffet at the front of the ship and had a front row picture window view on the right side of the dining area. It was almost like a dinner show. I did love sitting there as the ship glided slowly through the various channels in that beautiful Archipelago. Even after dinner , just sitting there with our friends , having coffee and good conversation, that atmosphere was extremely pleasent and relaxing.

[internat]

I'm glad you enjoyed yourself. I've been on those cruises many times. A lot of people go on them without even getting out to explore Helsinki or Åbo (Turku).

Silja Line is even better. Birka Line has a good buffet. You get more senior people on the latter.

Originally Posted by bluepacific

[b][color="Blue"] One of the most memorable and pleasent dining experiences I've ever enjoyed was on the Viking Line trip over to Finland.

[bluepacific]

Originally Posted by internat

I'm glad you enjoyed yourself. I've been on those cruises many times. A lot of people go on them without even getting out to explore Helsinki or Åbo (Turku).

Silja Line is even better. Birka Line has a good buffet. You get more senior people on the latter.

It's interesting that the archipelago around and all the way outside of Stockholm is fairly well populated. Now on the opposite side leaving from Turku, Finland, it seemed to be mostly uninhabited. Maybe it's because of less population over there overall. You're correct about the Silja Line , it's much more elegant , but the price also is a bit more on the posh side.

The stop over at the Åland between Finland & Sweden just to say that the Viking Line is not in the European Union so that they can technically sell Non-EU Taxed goods was a bit of a stretched. But whatever satisfies the Loop Holes.

I personally thought Finland was a much cleaner country than Sweden, but to be fair I have not been everywhere there. Another thing that may account for that is they have a much smaller population as I mentioned before. Helsinki was extremely clean though. Where we are in Göteborg, it has to be one of the most discustingly dirty cities I've been in. Mind you, I don't like any cities , not even in the USA. But Finland was beatiful.

[Sweden]

Originally Posted by NorthNJ

I was born in Stockholm, Sweden and lived there for 16 years until I moved to USA last year. Stockholm is one of the worlds wonderful capital cities.
The food is greit! People are good-looking and nice. There are many things to do in Stockholm and rest of Sweden. SVERIGE ÄR BÄST!

Självklart!

Now I know where you come from, I've been wondering that for some time. This IS crazy- EVERYONE from Sweden on City-Data comes from Stockholm! What happened to the other 8 million of us?

Ok, here's a question (in case I get accepted to one of the free standing course studies I've applied to): how many "fristående kurser" (free standing courses, or however it is translated) can one read in one semester? I've applied to 13 (one can apply to 15 according to Jönköping Högskola) of various lenght.
I know how to read a full program, but not "fristående kurser". Does anyone know anything about this?

[BigSwede]

Originally Posted by Sweden

EVERYONE from Sweden on City-Data comes from Stockholm!

No,not me!
I´m a northerner.

[kanhawk]

This thread kind of got hijacked so I guess I'll chime in. I think the Swedes are amazing. I am not sure many other countries could make socialism work the way they have and I think it's a credit to them that it does because for most people socialism is a poor and inefficient system and doesn't work, and yet, the Swedes make it work for them. Of course it doesn't hurt that it's a small country where (until recently at least) people were all of one ethnic group and had the same values so imposing that kind of system is easier. No one should think you could impose the same system on the USA and have it work though.
I wish the firefighter good luck although I think that is a bit of an odd profession to study abroad. I would think more academic study such as science or medicine would be what most European counties would look for, not a blue collar type job like firefighting.

[Sweden]

Originally Posted by BigSwede

No,not me!
I´m a northerner.

Haha, förlåt, I forgot about you Everyone but you. But Norrland is so far away and so exotic to us southerners that it could almost be considered it's own country

Originally Posted by kanhawk

Of course it doesn't hurt that it's a small country where (until recently at least) people were all of one ethnic group and had the same values so imposing that kind of system is easier.

Thanks for the kind words
There used to be 2 ethnic Swedes: the ethnic "Swedes" (the one the blue-eyed and blonde stereotype comes from) and the "Samis" (all of us, Samis and "Swedes" are Swedes, but we're ethnicly different). And today, Sweden has the same procentual amount of immigrants as the US does (about 13 % of the population are immigrants).

I want to know what happened to the OP...

[Sweden]

Åh, I can answer my own question now, just received the admission report. 37,5 points seem to be the limit, as all the other courses I'd applied to were stricken (or however it can be translated) since I've been... admitted to too many points already.
What's horrible is that all the courses I had really wanted to take were cancelled due to too little interest. Oh well...

[BigSwede]

Originally Posted by Sweden

Haha, förlåt, I forgot about you Everyone but you. But Norrland is so far away and so exotic to us southerners that it could almost be considered it's own country

Some here wants it to be it´s own country.