Month: June 2015

Yesterday I had my first job interview in Swedish language. I was so happy that I managed to have an interview in Swedish, so that I can not describe that amount of happiness realizing I crossed that border and now feel like I could speak Swedish and have an interview which was big thing for me. And it is even more important that I got the place to start with my praktik.

In Sweden everyone has to start with praktik and after you show that you can work, get on very well with colleagues and get contacts and recommendations, you can get a real job. This is the way, no matter who you are and where do you come from. Of course, there are always exemptions…

So, it felt really good, especially when you live in Sweden less than 6 months and then experience this. What a feeling! Later on I will write about it more.. How was it, what was important, etc…

When I wrote the word CONTACTS, it came on my mind that this word deserves a very big chapter on this blogsite. I will write about it in one of the next posts. It is a very big thing here in Sweden, and the more interesting is a difference in perception of this term in my country and here.

There are so many things in Sweden different from the rest of the world, or at least my country, and I will write about it very soon. But there are also the facts, not only my perception…

Samra, B&H

 

If you have chosen to think of Sweden as a cold dark quite country with IKEA shops scattered everywhere, then we give you the benefit of the doubt and that is why we are writing this blog. Before we all decide to come to Sweden, we knew little about it but since then we have realized that what makes Sweden a quite vague place is its privacy and specialty.

This blog is about a journey that with no doubt could be the biggest life turning points adventurer we have made so far  in our lives, it is about moving  to Sweden and what could be an outsider perspective in the process!

We are four girls who come from different parts of world and met each other in the place where our future begins. Future as we like to call it – our Swedish dream. Just around our daily coffee break or what Swedes call “Fika”, we have realized that despite our different cultural backgrounds we have all showed a great deal of unity in the way we think about Sweden. In a country where religions play no role in public life, it seems that Swedes have found their salvation in creating the Swedish dream. In our perception of our life in Sweden, we could get to criticize sometimes or express how we find it strange in other occasions. However, we can’t help ourselves being positively impressed in one of the most developed countries in the world..

The contributors to this blog are a Russian, a Croatian, a Bosnian and a half Arab half African girl!  All of us are taking part of a special program that should help us in learning Swedish which is not an easy task specially for English speakers. We came by different circumstances, expecting to live our dream and have a great future in this country.  The goal of this blog is to write about everything that one can face coming to Sweden.

You will read why did we come here, what did we expect, how did we achieve something, what are the differences, what are we doing, how do we feel and many things that foreigners are having on their mind when coming here. We thought to reflect on experience of moving to Sweden in both of our professional and personal capacities. Most of the content ideas we will discuss have emerged during our Fika talks, which is one of the holiest traditions in the country but also one of the valuable times where social bonds are created in Sweden.

Stay tuned for our upcoming stories!

Elena, Iva, Muna and Samra