Julbord

At Christmas most people in Sweden have a buffé called Christmas table or in swedish - "Julbord". It is a mix of many different swedish delicacies like rawspiced salmon, sausages (prinskorv), meatballs, Herrings, beetroot salad, ribbs, potatoes, Christmas ham, brawn, rice porrige and a dish called "Jansons Frestelse", a casserole with sliced potaoes, onions and ananchovy.

In Sweden you eat "Julbord" on Christmas eve and in school they serve Julbord the last day before the Christmas holidays. To the "Christmas table" you usally drink the Swedish drink called "Julmust" (Christmas soda). It tastes like coke but with more taste and more bubbles.

Robin (This is my story )

Hi, my name is Robin and I am sixteen. My birthday is the 26 of August. I have a mother, father and three siblings. My main interest are basketball, but I am interested in almost all sports. I see myself as a competitive guy who hates to lose. I eat most things but a favourite is the taco. My favourite subject in school is sports. I like to listen to almost everything but my favourite artist atm is John Mayer. I love comedy, I watch almost exclusively on it. Sure I can look at a horror or action movie sometimes. In the weekends I use to play basketball or maybe party in the latest hours. When I come home after school I use to watch on TV or maybe play som guitar, have played guitar in about 2-3 years now. I live in about 100 meters from school, it´s nice to get home in breaks or lunch hour. I don´t have any pets becuase I am allergic agains furred animals. I´m about 1.95 cm whitch is a good advantage for me when I play baskerball.

Famous Swedish sportsmen and sportswomen

Jonas Jerebko – Basketball player

Jonas Jerebko was the first Swedish basketball player to make it to the NBA. The 25^th of June, Detroit Pistons drafted him.

Jonas was born in a very small village called Kinna, 2,9 miles south of Borås. There he played for Marbo Basket before Plannja Basket signed him 2006. He played for Plannja one season, (Plannja is a team in Luleå, the town we live in) and then moved to Italy to play for Angelico Biella in the Italian Serie A. He had two very good years in Italy and became a big role model for basketball players in Sweden. It was a great success when he got drafted, he showed that it was possible to make it to the NBA even though you’re from Sweden.

Jonas has been doing good in the pre season and recently played the NBA premier for Detroit. He played 6 minutes, he didn't score, but he took 2 rebounds and picked up 2 fouls.

Susanna Kallur – Athlete

Susanna competes in sprint hurdles. She was born in New York, because her father played ice-hockey in NY Islanders. She lived there for five years, then she lived in France and Italy for one year each before her family moves home to Sweden.

Susanna started training athletics in 1996, and 1998, she made a breakthrough when she came third in the Junior World Championship. She went to the Atletics school in Falun and after that she spent 3 years on the University of Illinois in USA.

Her personal best on 100 meter hurdles is 12.49.

Famous Swedish sportsmen and sportswomen

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is a very famous football player.
If you didn´t now he actually is frome Sweden,
in a town called Malmö.
Zlatan is half Bosnian and half Croatian that was
born 3 October 1981.
Zlatan plays as a striker, he have played in teams
like internazionale, Juventus, Barcelona
and the swedish nationalteam.
In the last game zlatan played for barcelona he did 2 goals.

Anja Persson is an alpine skier who has won seven world championshi.
She was born in Umeå, a town in the middle Sweden.
That was on 25 mars 1991 this big star was born.
Anja competes in super- G, giant slalom, downhill combined and slalom.
You maybe don´t now who she is but if you ask you´re mum
our dad I can asure you that they now.
You can visit her blogg on http://www.anjapaerson.com/

The moose!

The moose is the biggest deer. The male is called bull and the female is called cow. The moose live in Europe, Asia and North America. The moose live in the woods where there are many lakes and swamps. In Sweden the moose use to live in the North. In the summer it use to eat leaves, flowers and small twigs. In the winter it use to eat juniper, twigs and pine twigs.

The moose is active on the day and it lives very lonely. The female usually get one calf, and it stay with the mum for one year.

The moose is around 2-3 meters. And it can weight 850 kilos. The size and the weight varies it depends much on the environment and the food. In north Sweden the moose is bigger than in the south part.

In Sweden the moose weight around 450 kilos.

The bad with the moose is that it often causes car accidents.

In the ancient time they use to hunt moose. And so it is today.

In Sweden the moose is called “the king of forest".

// Josefin and Allis

Karin R

Hey!

My name is Karin, I'm sixteen years old and live twenty kilometres from Luleå city. Now I have recently started school at the program health and wellness, that choice I am pleased with, so far anyway. I have been asked many times what I want to work with later, and still is the answer, no idea.

I have nothing special as a hobby, I don't go in any sports but I train otherwise. So in my spare time I like to spend time with my friends, go shopping in town and generally have fun. I live in a country house with my mom, dad and two dogs that I do not like. I also have a brother who is twenty-one years old, but he has moved a few years ago.

Something I look forward to in life now is to move into town, get a driving license and get a good education. I rather start working directly after high school but it can be difficult, so most likely it will be to go to university and study more.

Now you know a little bit about me / karin

Josefin

Hey!
My name is Josefin and I am 16 years old. I live in Luleå with my mum in an apartment. My parents are divorced so I just live with my mum because it's easier to live at just one place. But I use to meet my dad every week.

I also have a sister named Sara but she has moved to Umeå, in the south of Luleå, where she is going to study. (It takes about 4 hours with car to Umeå from Luleå).

In my spare time I like to practise, play basketball, watch at basketball games and just hang out with friends.

I study at a basketball gymnasium where I combine basketball and school. One day could be like practise in the morning, school untill 3 pm and than we have practise around 4-6 pm.

//Josefin

Famous Swedes part 2

Povel Ramel was born the first of June in 1922. He had done a lot of song lyrics but he was also a huge composer, pianist, singer and a decent comedian. At an age of seventeen he became a member of his first band. But Povel became more famous in his latest years. He has been present in Tarzan(disney movie) as the voice for professor Porter. He has been currently in some movies or shortmovies mostly in 1950-1960, and he had also influenced two tv-series. Povel Ramel died the 5 of June in 2007 becuase of heart problems.



Stellan Skarsgård was born in Göteborg the 13 of June in 1951. He is a great international Swedish actor. He is acting in the last two Pirates of the caribbean movies, Mamma Mia, Angels and demons. He has participated in the tv-serie Entourage. Stellan Skarsgård is one of the most famous actors in Sweden.

The European elk

One animal here in Luleå is the elk. The elk is quite big and have horns coming out of the forehead. It is one of the largest species of deer in the world. The main food for the elk is sprout, leaves and small twigs. The elk mainly lives for it self. All though, sometime during the winter miner flocks can appear. The size of the elk is different depending on gender, underspecies and the enviorment the elk is living in. For example, the elks up here in the north is in general bigger than the ones that we have in the southern parts of Sweden.

For more information about elks, USE GOOGLE :)
/ Anna, Jesper and Sara

ps. This animal is sometimes called the moose, there exists a disambuguation of the word since a deer in Canada is also called elk, however we have chosen to use the word elk here since it is moore similar to the Swedish word 'älg'. ds.

The Swedish language

Hi, we have gotten an assignment to write a short text about the Swedish language:

In school we learn Swedish as first language and English as second. When we are around seven years old we start learning English in school. In the sixth grade (around 12 years old) we can choose about a third language: French, German or Spanish.

There’s not any other country in the world that learns Swedish in school except for Finland.

We can understand Norwegian people almost perfect, and Danish not fully, even though these are 3 different languages. Which means that the languages are pretty similar each other.

The most people from other countries have problems with the Swedish grammar and think it’s really hard. The Swedish language got a lot words loaned from the English and German, especially the German.

We don’t dub the texts for movies or television, except for animated child movies. We just put in a text strip called subtitle and use the English language instead of dubbing over to Swedish.

If you’d like to learn some Swedish phrases just ask us and we will do our best to help you.

Best regards Frida, Karin and Rasmus.

Famous Swedes

Astrid Lindgren is known worldwide for her childrenbooks, among other about Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga and Karlsson on the Roof. Her books have been translated into 88 languages and sold 145 million copies. Many of Lindgren's books have been filmed. Astrid has won the literature prize, which was 5 million. That makes it the world's largest literary prize after the Nobel Prize in Literature.

ABBA was a successful Swedish pop group. The name ABBA comes from members' initials: Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Anni-Frid. On the album cover wrote the group often the first "B" mirror image, which also became the group's logo. When ABBA disbanded in 1983 they had sold around 180 million discs. ABBA is, with its now over 400 million discs sold worldwide, Sweden's most successful musical export of all time, and continues to sell 2-4 million records each year.




Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, inventor of dynamite, industrialist, donor, engineer and founder of the Nobel Prize. His invention paved the new road in several areas. His will have made Sweden famous throughout the world.

Robert Gustavsson is a Swedish actor and comedian who has been named as Sweden's funniest man. He is also a very skillfull imitator. Robert Gustafsson is the one who, without doubt, played most roles. The gallery is big and you'll find characters from throughout the history of Robert as a comedian

Maybe some of you could recognize at least one of these famous Swedes? :)

/Maja and Malin

The Swedish language

Swedish is an Eastern Nordic language. More than 10 million people talk this language both in Sweden and Finland and it’s very much like Norwegian and Danish. Swedish and the other Scandinavian languages derive from Old Scandinavian. It’s the common language stock for the Germanic people in Scandinavian. On the 8^th century the Scandinavians/the Vikings started to express themselves by cutting runes. Runes are a type of graphical signs cut in stones.

Here are a few examples that show how the Swedish, Norwegian and Danish languages are comprehensible with each other.

English: I live in Sweden and I usually eat blueberries.

Swedish: Jag bor i Sverige och jag brukar äta blåbär.

Norwegian: Jeg bor i Sverige og jeg pleier spise blåboer.

Danish: Jeg bor i Sverige og jeg plejer spise blåboer.

We have 28 letters in our alphabet, three of them are kind of special. The last two letters ä and ö are only used in Sweden. The other letter is å is used by Swedes, Norwegians and Danes. We pronounce the letters:

Å = [o]

Ä = [ae]

Ö = [oe]

/Fanny and Ellen

Swedish Food

We are going to write about three different swedish dishes.

First out is the famous swedish dish called Palt, it comes from Piteå in the north of Sweden. It is a round white ball in the size of a tennisball made of potatoes, flour and water. The ball is filled with salted pork. When you eat Palt you eat it with lingonberry jam and butter.

The second dish is meatballs. Meatballs is small balls made out of meat. We eat meatballs with pasta or creamed potatoes and if you want you can add some brown sauce.

On christmas eve we eat something called christmastable. It is a buffé with many different dishes for example meatballs, christmas ham, potatoes and raw spiced salmon - salmon that been marinaded in salt and spices for a long time. To the christmastable we like to drink christmas soda, it taste a little like coke and it tastes really good.

Written by: Mattias and Gustav H

Sara

Hello!
My name is Sara Granström. I'm sixteen years old and live in Luleå, a city in the north of Sweden. My interests are playing football and hanging out with my friends. I go to upper secondary school with the direction at sports. I think that it is very funny because I'm interested of sport. Another plus is that the people in my class also are interested of sport, that makes the atmosphere comfortable. I live in a yellow house.

Mattias

HELLO!:D
My name is Mattias and i'm 16 years old. My birthday is in June, 5th.
On my spare time I like to play Soccer,Golf and Floorball. I also like to hang out with my friends and listen to music.
I live with my mum,dad and my two siblings, one brother and one sister. My brother is 5 and my sister is 14.
My family don't have any pets because my mum and sister is allergic.
My favorite food is Tacos an I like to drink water.
When i'm playing floorball I play in Notvikens IK and we play in the 4th division in the north of sweden.

Ellen

I'm Ellen and i'm 16 years old. I live in Luleå, Sweden and I've lived here all my life. On my spare time I play basketball and hang out with friends. I'm on my first year on the upper secondary school. Here, you can choose a program that fits you and the thing you want to when you grow up. I chose a program so I can combine sports and school. it's called "basketball upper secondary school". I like this program very much. Other things I do on my spare time is study, or being with my super awesome friends! We usually watch a movie, talk or just hang out.

My favourire tv show is "How I Met Your Mother", I especcialy like the character Barney. I love all kinds of music but my favourites are john mayer, lars winnerbäck (swedish), the killers, coldplay and so on.

/ellen

Famous Swedes

Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöf was a very famous Swedish author. She was the first woman in history who managed to receive the honorable Nobel price for litterature. She was also an activist for the women civil rights. She is such a big icon in Sweden that her face and one of the characters in one of her books, Nils Holgersson, has been put on our 20 kronor bill.

Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar was born in the 1920's and died only two years ago (2007). He was a very sucessful movie director, famous all around the world. Some rank him one of the best directors in the history of movie making. Four of his movies have been rewarded with an Oscar and two of his movies are on the “top 100 list” of best movies on IMDB.com.

written by Gustav Heimdahl and Johan Stenberg

Rebecca

Hi my name is rebecca I'm 15 years old.
My birtday is 17 th Novemver 1993.
I have one older sister and she has three kids,
There names are Elisa, Vilmer and Alicia.
I like animals a lot and have one cat myself, his name is Rasmus and he is black and white.
I have started my first year at upper secondary school here in Luleå. It's really fun and I enjoy my new class very well.
We have all the subjects, exercise physiology, nutrition and health and health care of course.
It's a really big program and we have many different things to choose between.
I like it because I have allways trained a lot, and at this program I can try many different things and learn to do them right at the same time.
On my spare time I am with my friends, listening to music, do homework, dance Jazz and train everything from work out to run at the sidwalk.
On the weekends I go home with the bus, to be with my parents and relatives and enjoy the time I have with them.
//rebecca

Fanny W

My name is Fanny Westerlund and I am 15 years old. I live in a red house in Älvsbyn with my family. My family is me, my mother, little sister, little brother, step father and two little step sisters. Älvsbyn is 60 km outside of Luleå. So I have to take the bus to school everyday, but that’s not so bad. I usually sleep on the bus. I think the p.e and sportsprogram is fun, because you get to exercise during school. When I’m not at school I like to play football and be with my friends.
/Fanny

Emma

My name is Emma Sundbom, I live in Luleå. I am going sports program with an individual focus in high school, my personal focus is golf. I play a lot of golf, but also cross-country skiing and riding. I ride for a riding instructor once a week and I also ride on my neighbor´s horses at least three times a week.
Golf I'm training almost every day during the summer and I also compete. In the winter time I am training cross-country skiing I'm training well, but not as much, more recently, I have not raced much, but a few years ago I competed a lot in cross-country skiing. Since it is very much in school time is not much more than going to school and practice. But now when I entered the sports program, you can practice more on school time and you get more pleasure than to spend time with their friends and be more in the stable.
About three years I have been finished high school, my goals for the high school years is that I must have been a better golf player and I have collected good grades in school. I don´t really know what I will do after high school.
Maybe after school I will choose to study further to get a good job. This summer I have worked with to sell golf stuff in a golf shop. It's really fun to earn my own money and get to decide for myself was to do with it.
/Emma

Gustav Hahlin

Hello my name is Gustav Hahlin. I am sixteen years old and I live in Luleå with my parents and my two brothers. on my sparetime I like to play tennis and floorball, i have played tennis since I was five. I have one pet, a dog and my favorite food is pizza.

Jennifer

Adventurous, outgoing and down to earth is probably the tree words that describes me mostly.
My name is Jennifer Lidström and I love "almost" everything with a bit of challenge.

I just moved from Piteå to study at the P.E. program at the upper secondary school here in Luleå. It's hard to be away from family and friends but at the same time I'm glad and exited to do something new and not just the regular old things.

When I'm not studying or doing anything else thats a "must" I like to run and go to the gym and workout because like I said earlier - challenges are my life, and by working out I can develop and challenge my self. During the summer I often work a lot but I find it quite rewarding.
I'm working as a white water rafting guide on a company called Wilderness Adventure Vindeln and a tourist company in Piteå. During the winter I like snowboarding and hanging out with friends but I also work at a ski hill just to keep my self occupied.

My dreams are many for the future but I hope that I'll someday work with people and that I can help them to see the bright times in life. That's the reason why I decided to study here in Luleå at the P.E. program and I hope my studies will help me reach my goal.

// Jennifer :)

Linda

My name is Linda Vinsa and I come from a small village that is situated about 150 km from Luleå. The village's name is Lansjärv. Only 200 people live there so we don't have any school there. So I decided to move to Luleå so I could study and meet new people.
It's really fun and I like the school a lot.
I live now by myself, but I meet my parents Ann-Louise and Tomas at the weekends. I also have a sister and a brother. I'm the youngest.
In Lansjärv we have 3 dogs that I really love.

At my spare time I like to work out and be with my family, friends and boyfriend. I have played a lot of groupsports for example soccer,basketball and indoor bandy. But not so much indoor bandy. I played it just for fun. I had to quit every group sports when I moved from my hometown.


byebye / Linda

Rasmus

Hello!

My name is Rasmus Persson and I'm 16 years old, I was born the 10th of august 1993 in Luleå. I live in a little village named Brändön outside Luleå which I've lived in my whole life. I live together with my parents Ulrika and Björn, my two twin siblings Arvid and Evelina plus our dog Milou.

On my sparetime I use to hang out with friends, exercise and just taking it easy. I consider myself as relaxed and shy. I pretty much listen to music all day long, from when I wake up until I go to sleep, I wouldn't be able to live without music and can't see how some people do;) I also like everything with engines, snowmobiles, cars, motorcykels etc.

Have a good day / Rasmus! :)