Hello guys!
we (frida, fanny, karin, jennifer, rebecca and malin) have made some movies for you so you know how our swedish christmas is celebrated. There are two parts and the movie is filmed in such a distorted way that you will have to turn you head slightly to watch it. Hope you will enjoy the movie(s)!
part 1
part 2
Sunday, 20 December 2009
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Christmas Eve in Sweden
Here in Sweden we celebrate the Christmas with friends and family. Everybody celebrates their way, but there's much in common. It's usual to decorate your house and the christmas tree with different kinds of small santas, light loops and the colour red.
A few days before christmas the most families picks in a fir-tree and decorates it. After that you put all the eventual presents under the tree, which you receive during different times on the 24th.
You also eat a big christmas dinner with lots of different dishes that are special for christmas. At 15.00 the 24th there's a program called Donald Duck that goes every Christmas eve the same time. It contains a lot of short clips from various cartoon movies.
Rasmus, Karin and Frida
A few days before christmas the most families picks in a fir-tree and decorates it. After that you put all the eventual presents under the tree, which you receive during different times on the 24th.
You also eat a big christmas dinner with lots of different dishes that are special for christmas. At 15.00 the 24th there's a program called Donald Duck that goes every Christmas eve the same time. It contains a lot of short clips from various cartoon movies.
Rasmus, Karin and Frida
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Christmas-movie
Hey!
It´s Christmas very soon, so we (Maja, Jonna, Linda, Ellen, Josefin and Allis) have made a christmas-movie for you guys to get some Christmas spirit here on the blog.
Merry Christmas to all of you!
It´s Christmas very soon, so we (Maja, Jonna, Linda, Ellen, Josefin and Allis) have made a christmas-movie for you guys to get some Christmas spirit here on the blog.
Merry Christmas to all of you!
Monday, 14 December 2009
JULMUST
"Julmust" is a typical Swedish tradition, and it's becoming stronger every year that we drink Julmust for Christmas.It is black in color and very rich in its bubbly and taste.
That Julmust is a Swedish Christmas tradition has probably not escaped many. Looking at the Swedish table around Christmas time you probably always see a bottle of Julmust standing on the table.
In Sweden, we drink approximately 60 000 000 liter must each year, it is almost seven liters per person. Over 45 000 000 liters of the must which drinks, drinks during December.
The spice mix of Julmust is so secret that only one person knows the recipe, his name is "Göran Roberts".
That Julmust is a Swedish Christmas tradition has probably not escaped many. Looking at the Swedish table around Christmas time you probably always see a bottle of Julmust standing on the table.
In Sweden, we drink approximately 60 000 000 liter must each year, it is almost seven liters per person. Over 45 000 000 liters of the must which drinks, drinks during December.
The spice mix of Julmust is so secret that only one person knows the recipe, his name is "Göran Roberts".
Swedish Christmas calendar
The first calendar was called ”Titteliture” and aired in 1960. A few of the most famous calendars are ”Tedskedsgumman”, ”Mysteriet på greveholm” and ”Sunes jul”.
This year's calendar is called ”Superhero christmas”. It's about two retired superheros and their grandchilds who come to visit.
A Christmas calendar can also be a calendar with paper lids to open and behind every picture there is a picture of something or sometimes chocolate.
/Fanny, Emma and Rebecca
St Lucia's day
St Lucia’s day
In Sweden we celebrate St Lucia’s Day. St Lucia is always on December 13th. There are many versions about why we celebrate it and how it began. The most of the versions tell us that it was about a Christian girl from Sicily named Lucia.
We are lightning candles during Lucia in an honouring memory of the girl Saint Lucia, the meaning of her name is light and she was the queen of lights. When she took the first step into a room the whole room was lit up. When we celebrate Lucia we have a Lucia procession where the Lucia walks first and her maids are right behind her.
The Lucia is wearing a long, white dress, a red wide string around her waist and a crown with candles on her head. Her maids are also wearing a white, long dress but instead of a red string they have tinsels in their hair and the candles in their hands. The Lucia is also holding her palms together when she walks.
Lucia was born in a rich family on Syrakusa in Sicilia. Her father died when she was a few years, so she was raised by her mother, Eutychia. Some stories tell that she, as a child, gave a chastity vow. When Caesar Diocletianus tried to kill her she wouldn’t die. He pored hot oil on her and cut a sword in her neck, but she didn’t die. Then someone did “the last lubrication” on her, and she died.
/Ellen, Josse and Allis
Allis Nyström
Hey!
My name is Allis and I´m 16 years old. I live in a town in northern Sweden, called Luleå. My parents are divorced. I have five siblings, four of them are living in London.
In my sparetime I like to play basketball, hang out with friends and just chillin'.
My school is called the Royalbird. I study at the basketball upper secondary school , we practise 8 times a week.
I´m 1. 83 meters tall.
If you want to know more about me, then just ASK! :D
My name is Allis and I´m 16 years old. I live in a town in northern Sweden, called Luleå. My parents are divorced. I have five siblings, four of them are living in London.
In my sparetime I like to play basketball, hang out with friends and just chillin'.
My school is called the Royalbird. I study at the basketball upper secondary school , we practise 8 times a week.
I´m 1. 83 meters tall.
If you want to know more about me, then just ASK! :D
Monday, 7 December 2009
Frida
Hi! My name is Frida, I'm 16 years old and my birthday is 17th November 1993.
I live in Örarna, a little village outside Luleå. I live with my mother, Marie, my father, Ulf and my twelve year old brother, Magnus.
I like to be with my friends and riding horses on my sparetime. I ride and take care of a friends horse. His name is Chaplin. I've been riding since I was five years old and I still think It's fun!
I have choosen to study health and wellness. I've chosen that school because I like to train and learn about healthness. And so far it's really fun! :)
I think school is fun almost all the time, but I don't like to do homeworks.
//Frida
I live in Örarna, a little village outside Luleå. I live with my mother, Marie, my father, Ulf and my twelve year old brother, Magnus.
I like to be with my friends and riding horses on my sparetime. I ride and take care of a friends horse. His name is Chaplin. I've been riding since I was five years old and I still think It's fun!
I have choosen to study health and wellness. I've chosen that school because I like to train and learn about healthness. And so far it's really fun! :)
I think school is fun almost all the time, but I don't like to do homeworks.
//Frida
Christmas illustrations
I'm going to write short about artists, who loves to draw christmas pictures. One of the most famous is Jenny Nyström. She was the one that draw the Santa-claus and gave it a face to Sweden. The Santa had grey beard, a red Santa hat and mostly he had grey clothes. When you see a Santa now, he only have red clothes. But on the old time he had same clothes as the Santa-claus on the picture. Jenny Nyström is the one that have drawed that picture. Jenny was born 1854 and died 1946.
Another famous christmas artist is Elsa Beskow. She was born 1874 and died 1953. She was famous for many fairy tales.// Linda
Swedish wildlife
Right of public access
In Sweden we have something called the right of public acces.It gives you a big appertunity to be a part of the nature. You have the right to be almost everywhere you want. Apart from others hous territory if you dont destroy the nature.Here in Sweden we have alot of visiters from many other countries that wants to pick berries , hunt, or just to be.
The forest
In Sweden we have alot of forest. Mostly in the north. In many years we have used the threes for paper industry and so on. In the forest you can find many different kind of plants. And also many animals. Many people like to hunt in the forest. The most famous animal that we love to hunt is moose.
Mountains and scale
A big activity in sweden is slalom and snowboarding. We have beautiful scales in the north of Sweden, close to norway. Many visiters are coming to Riksgränsen, Hemavan and Tärnaby.On the spring its really beautiful to be in the scales. The sun is really warm and the snow is still there. Its really easy to get sunburnd, beacuse the sun is reflecting in the snow. On the summer you can go and hike on the scales.
Winter and snow
On the winter we have alot of activity's. For example, you can go up in the scales and. And of course drive snow-mobile in the nature. Many people like to drive the snow-mobile to a lake and jig. When you jig you are actually fishing in a hole in the ice. And you can compete with others and see who got the biggest fish.The winner gets a good price.
If you want to read more about right of public access, you can find information here.
The Swedish New Year
New Year’s Eve!
I don’t think we do anything very special at New Year’s Eve in Sweden.
But we sure do celebrate it!
Some famous person makes a speech and we count down to 00.00.
The moment the New Year begins we shoot fireworks into the sky like everybody else.
We make toasts with champagne etc. to celebrate the New Year.
Some makes New Year resolutions about stuff like stop smoking, don’t waste money etc.
Jesper Sannerborg writing about the way he celebrates New Year’s Eve:
I don't know how you guys celebrate New Year, but I'm going to write a short text about how we do it the Swedish way!
At New Years Eve we usually eat some good food, then later on at midnight we go out and light some fireworks, Fireworks are great!
But unfortunately you can get seriously injured if you do something wrong...
I know a guy, he went out and lit some fireworks, but he wasn’t careful at all! He lit a firework and he didn't let go of it, he held on to the rocket
and was just about to let go of it, but he was too slow...
The rocket exploded in his hand, the hand just disappeared, the only thing left was some scraps of the hand! It was blood everywhere, like a fountain!
He ran in to the house screaming, they took the car and drove immediately to the nearest hospital.
He was lucky, he was close to die due to he loosed a lot of blood, But he survived!
However, that's not the greatest start of a new year.
Joel and Jesper.
Gingerbread
One typical tradition we Swedes have is the gingerbread biscuit. The first documented time of the appearance of the gingerbread was back in the 14th century. Initially the gingerbread biscuit was baked by nuns and was sold in the pharmacy as medicine for a lot of different complaints.
Hans, a king, used to get prescriptions of gingerbread from his doctor because of his bad temper. There is a myth about the biscuit that say that they are supposed to make you kind hearted and generally nice.
The gingerbread biscuits are associated with christmas, but you still eat them all year round, just in smaller amounts. About fifteen years ago we only ate them at Christmas time but that has changed over the last years.
At Christmas we swedes usually intend to bake a lot of gingerbread houses, tiny miniatures of houses with walls and roofs made of gingerbread.
Christmas cookies
Saffron buns
Saffron buns are a pastry that is strongly associated with lucia weekend. “Lussekatt” is a form of common wheat buns but with a strong yellow color that comes from an ingredient called saffron.
The concept Lussekatt had originally nothing to do with Lucia, but is etymologically traced to Lucifer, that is the devil. It was in Germany in the 1600s as the custom with Lussekatt arrived. The devil, in cat form, gave the child beating, while Jesus as a child handed out brownies to the good children. To keep the devil away they colored saffron buns with yellow saffron spice. The bright buns were scaring Saffron, ie Lucifer.
Saffron buns are a pastry that is strongly associated with lucia weekend. “Lussekatt” is a form of common wheat buns but with a strong yellow color that comes from an ingredient called saffron.
The concept Lussekatt had originally nothing to do with Lucia, but is etymologically traced to Lucifer, that is the devil. It was in Germany in the 1600s as the custom with Lussekatt arrived. The devil, in cat form, gave the child beating, while Jesus as a child handed out brownies to the good children. To keep the devil away they colored saffron buns with yellow saffron spice. The bright buns were scaring Saffron, ie Lucifer.
How to make saffron buns:
INGREDIENT
ca 35 st
50 g Yeast
100 g Butter
5 dl milk
250 g Natural yogurt
2 bags of Saffron 1 g
1 1/2 dl suger
1/2 tsk salt
17 dl flour
Garnish:
RaisinPainting: 1 Egg
Do like this:
Crunch yeast in a degbunke. Melt the butter in a saucepan. Add the milk and heat to heat the finger, 37 degrees. Degspadet Pour over the yeast. Stir so that the Yeast dissolves. Add cottage cheese, saffron, sugar, salt and most of the flour. Work dough until it becomes shiny and smooth, and release from Bunker edges. Add ev. more flour. Let ferment covered in about 40 min. Set the oven at 225 grader.Arbeta the dough on floured surface and back out to about 35 kusar or fantasy characters. Place them on greased sheets. Garnish with raisins. Allow to ferment, covered in about 30 minutes. Brush with beaten egg. Bake in middle of oven 5-8 min. Major characters baked at 200 degrees for 10-15 minutes.
"KNÄCK"
This toffee is, perhaps in company with another toffee which we call “Ischoklad”, considered as a mandatory part of a Swedish Christmas celebrations. A classic!
This Christmas-candy is incredible good and tastes best when they are cold.
Once the batter has been cooked up to just the right texture, which can be soft to very hard, depending on your taste, it divides into small folded paper where it may solidify.
Recept on how you do this kind of Swedish toffee ”knäck”:
Servings:
About 40 pc
2 dl sugar
2 dl light syrup
2 dl whipping cream
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
3 tablespoons chopped almonds
Do like this:
Mix sugar, syrup and cream in a saucepan, preferably plastic coated. Boil vigorously 15-20 min.
Pour a little of the hot mixture into a cup with cold water. Is the batter to form a round ball is finished, otherwise the mixture boil for a few min.
Take the pot to the side and mix of yellow and almond. 4th Pour the batter into little molds breaking consolidated in one place. Let cool killing.
So now, go home and bake : D
/ Johanna,Jonna, Maja and Malin frome Sweden
Advent
Advent is the period that starts four Sundays before Christmas and lasts until Christmas Eve. The first Sunday of Advent starts the ecclesiastical year. Then people sing familiar hymns and songs, and the churches are filled.
We hang Advent stars and decorate our windows with electric candlesticks. We also have candlesticks with normal candles in. We light an Advent candle every Sunday. When we reach Christmas all four candles are lit in the candlestick.
Advent is all inception for all sorts of activities such as Christmas decorations, Christmas dinner, mulled wine receptions, Christmas parties and other social niceties.
The Advent calendar has twenty-four gaps which get opened one per day of all children until Christmas.
We hang Advent stars and decorate our windows with electric candlesticks. We also have candlesticks with normal candles in. We light an Advent candle every Sunday. When we reach Christmas all four candles are lit in the candlestick.
Advent is all inception for all sorts of activities such as Christmas decorations, Christmas dinner, mulled wine receptions, Christmas parties and other social niceties.
The Advent calendar has twenty-four gaps which get opened one per day of all children until Christmas.
Merry Christmas! :) /Sara & Robin
Monday, 30 November 2009
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.
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.
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
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.
Monday, 23 November 2009
Famous Swedish sportsmen and sportswomen
Jonas Jerebko – Basketball player
Jonas Jerebko was the first Swedish basketball player to make it to the NBA. The 25th 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.
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/
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.
// Josefin and Allis
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
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
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
Monday, 16 November 2009
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
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.
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.
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.
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 8th 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]
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.
Written by: Mattias and Gustav H
Sunday, 15 November 2009
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.
Friday, 13 November 2009
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.
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.
Sunday, 8 November 2009
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
Monday, 2 November 2009
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
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
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
/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
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 :)
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
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
Sunday, 1 November 2009
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! :)
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Fanny W L
Hello!
My name is Fanny Westerberg and my birthday is in august 11th. I live with my mother, her new husband, my brother and our dog. I live in Ersnäs a small village a few miles from Luleå. I'm a fun, outgoing and stubborn person. I go in a wonderful class with de funniest people. On my free time I exercise, hang out with friends and spend a lot of time with my boyfriend. I live in a small town were there's not so much to do. But whit the best friends you always can find some funny things to do. On the winter we have a lot of snow and it is really cold so we often drive snowmobile or goes slalom skiing. Up here we have a big interest to watch ice hockey and basketball on the winter. On the summer there is about 20-25 degrees and often sunny and we spend time whit bath in the river and a lot of sport activities, most soccer. On the summer evenings we spend time with our friends sometimes in front of some bonfire. In our class we are all interested of sport and exercise a lot bout on and of school time.
My name is Fanny Westerberg and my birthday is in august 11th. I live with my mother, her new husband, my brother and our dog. I live in Ersnäs a small village a few miles from Luleå. I'm a fun, outgoing and stubborn person. I go in a wonderful class with de funniest people. On my free time I exercise, hang out with friends and spend a lot of time with my boyfriend. I live in a small town were there's not so much to do. But whit the best friends you always can find some funny things to do. On the winter we have a lot of snow and it is really cold so we often drive snowmobile or goes slalom skiing. Up here we have a big interest to watch ice hockey and basketball on the winter. On the summer there is about 20-25 degrees and often sunny and we spend time whit bath in the river and a lot of sport activities, most soccer. On the summer evenings we spend time with our friends sometimes in front of some bonfire. In our class we are all interested of sport and exercise a lot bout on and of school time.
Monday, 12 October 2009
Jonna
Hi there!
My name is Jonna Wiklund and i'm 15 years old (16 in december).
I'm a happy girl who likes to be with my friends, outdoor livning, listen to music, play basketball and just live life.
I live in l"Luleå" which is a city in the north of Sweden.
I live downtown of Luleå whit my mum and every other week I change to my dad who lives in "Bergnäset" which is a neighborhood in Luleå. Both my oarents lives in apartments.
Luleå is a town who has about 45000 inhabitants.
My schools name is "gymnasieskolan kvarteret Kungsfågeln" It's a quite big school.
Sports, scients, electricity, foodindustri, resturant an hotel studens goes here totaly 3 years.
I.m a sport student because I study basketball orientation.
I've just started my firt year.
I really like sports, so if I hade the time I would play many sports! I hate to lose and if I do that my mood is not so god. I'm a bad loser an I'm also very selfcritical!
My friends describes me as a good, headstrong and funny person.
Peace/ Jonna
Malin
Hi!
My name is Malin Olofsson and I'm 16 years old. I live in northern Sweden in a small village called Alvik located in the city of Lulea. I live there with my mom, dad, brother and our two dogs.
I go to school in town, at the royal bird (kungsfageln). I like to play basketball, so I study in "basketgymnasiet".
In my spare time so I would rather spend my time with friends and family, perhaps to watch some basketball games, "plannja basket".
I am 1.75 meters tall, not fat, my hair is brunette, very happy and frisky girl who likes to eat much food. My birthday is March 2, 1993.
See you later! /Malin
My name is Malin Olofsson and I'm 16 years old. I live in northern Sweden in a small village called Alvik located in the city of Lulea. I live there with my mom, dad, brother and our two dogs.
I go to school in town, at the royal bird (kungsfageln). I like to play basketball, so I study in "basketgymnasiet".
In my spare time so I would rather spend my time with friends and family, perhaps to watch some basketball games, "plannja basket".
I am 1.75 meters tall, not fat, my hair is brunette, very happy and frisky girl who likes to eat much food. My birthday is March 2, 1993.
See you later! /Malin
Johanna
Hi, my name is Johanna. I was born in the 90th.
My birthday is on november 25.
I live in björkskatan in a town called Luleå with my mother Anna-Maria, my father Peter and my brother David. I also have a sister Josefine, but she lives in Uppsala.
On my sparetime I hang out with my friends and I also dance a lot.
I've danced for eight years, styles like ballet, lyrical, jazz, street and toe ballet. Last year i had one of the ledingparts in a dance show called Narnia.
My birthday is on november 25.
I live in björkskatan in a town called Luleå with my mother Anna-Maria, my father Peter and my brother David. I also have a sister Josefine, but she lives in Uppsala.
On my sparetime I hang out with my friends and I also dance a lot.
I've danced for eight years, styles like ballet, lyrical, jazz, street and toe ballet. Last year i had one of the ledingparts in a dance show called Narnia.
Joel
Hi!
I’m Joel Sundqvist, I’m 16 years old and live in Lulea, Sweden. I play basketball. My school is specially shaped for basketball and we practice 7 times a week.
So the school is my team and we play matches against other teams in town on the weekends.
It’s a very good opportunity for me to become a good basketball player. But it’s tough, the practices are hard and it’s sometimes hard to cope with all the school work.
We chose which direction we’re going to study when we start second grade.
I’m thinking about choosing natural science but I’m not quite sure.
I live in a small village outside the city and take the bus to school every morning.
Living in the country is sometimes nice, but most of the time it sucks because off the long distance to the city.
As you might realize, basketball is kind of all I do in my spare time. But sometimes, when we don’t have games, I like to party with friends or play computer games.
When I graduate I’ve thought about moving to the states and go to college, but that depends on how the basketball is going and all that stuff.
Maja
Hello! My name is Maja Söderberg and I am 16 years old. I live in Luleå, in the north of Sweden, with my parents. I have three older siblings, but they have moved in with their girlfriend/boyfriend. My sister is three years older than me. One of my brothers is five years older than me, and the other brother is about 14 years older than me.
I love to play basketball, and about one month ago I started to a basketball gymnasium here in Luleå. I´m one of the shortest players in the basketballgymnasium, I´m 171 cm. I have brown hair and dark-blue eyes. When I was younger, I also played football.
Except for playing basketball I like to hang out with friends, be with my family and go shopping. I have two favourite seasons of the year, summer and autumn. I absolutely love when it's rather hot outside and you can go to the beach and play volleyboll or something like that. I like the autumn because that's when the basketball series start, and you can put a nice coat on and a warm scarf. That´s really nice.
My favourite program on television is Idol, Friends, two and a half man, and how i met your mother. As you can see the most part is comedies. That´s the best!
The most frightening and horrible things i know is clowns. They are really scary and i will never have any clown at my childrens birthday if i get any.
If I had to describe my personality, I would say that I´m a postive and glad person most of the time. I can´t say I'm shy meeting new people, but I'm not the girl who talks all the time, if you know what i mean. My favourite subject in school is music, physical education and physiology. I think that the most boring subject is chemistry and physics.
I don´t know yet where I want to find myself in twenty years, or what I would like to work with. Although I´ve always had thoughts about working in the Police Force.
Anna
My name is Anna and I’m 16 years old. I live in a central urban district here in Luleå called Bergnäset.
I live in a detached house with my mum, dad and our cat. My three-year-older sister has just moved out, to go live with her boyfriend.
In my spare time I like to hang out with my friends, play soccer (or do any other kind of exercising) and just to have a good time.
I go to Luleå's upper secondary school. I go to the sport program, but without any special concentration at one specific sport. So I get to try out all different types of training.
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