Friday, November 28

Spring comes before Winter

allting har sina fördelar och nackdelar
när du jobbar, har du ingen tid, men du har pengar
när du pluggar, har du inga pengar, men du har tid

snackars mig - jag blev våt om fötterna
It got warmer today, but also much more wet... Trying to bike to Migrationsverket, I got my feet totally wet and then I had to sit there for more than an hour waiting... I just hope I wont get förkyld again. I should go and drink one extra C vitamin. But now I am finally residing permanently in Sweden, yuhuhuu

Monday, November 24

Iesniegam






Det snöar och snöar och snöar och snöar...

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IDELIGEN, IIIIDELIIIGEN, IIIIIIIIIIDELIIIIIIIIIIIIGEN

Saturday, November 22

egentligen och äntligen VINTER





Yesterday I went to one of the massive Swedish jympa and then to Flogsta to help my coursemate with Statistics. 7th floor, highway, forest, night lights and snow... lots of black tea and pepperkakor.
Biking back carefully (försiktigt) because there is ice under the thin layer of snow and it is glashalt. This morning woke up in a beautiful sunny winter day with a decent layer of snow. Yaaayyyy! Jag älskar vinter! Edhe e dua shume shume shume BB Poqi, ka kenga shume te bukura :)

But todays Swedish words are egentligen & äntligen. I will try to remember the difference -
egentligen - really, actually
äntligen - finally

Friday, November 21

Qeshu!

Qeshu, qeshu, qeshu se do t'jetë vonë... :)

Pasmaidi, pasmaidi, pasmaidi, savādāk būs par vēlu
Smile, smile, smile, otherwise it will be too late

Today I got up at 6:30 to go earlier to the department and print out my assignment for 8:15 o'clock seminar. Moreover, the seminar was in a very strange place, old house with many cats. When I found it, I realized that the seminar is only on Monday. But I petted 2 beautiful, sweet, fantastic, lovable, purrrrrable katter, which was really worth getting up so early for. And again, I love mornings, especially such empty ones, not stressful ones.

Stockholm igen

Uppsala Association of International Affairs today organized a visit to the R. embassy in Stockholm which was attended by a dozen Swedes and 2 Latvians: me and S. Nobody really knew what to expect from that because there was no certain speaker, topic, reason or whatsoever for the visit. So today's word naturally came in Russian - попослиться. I am not sure that it can be found in dictionaries (quite sure about the opposite), it should not be pronounced in the presence of high officials and inside the institutions, but it more or less means visiting the institution, official or посл and being at their close proximity. The word owns its credit to a certain female Jewish friend of S.

The embassy in Stockholm is in a huge building near the waters (everything is near the waters in Stockholm) built in the typical socialist style of late 60ies or 70ies. The big banquet hall where we were seated has beautiful crystal lustres and a lot of light (the day was beautiful winterly sunny). We were surprised by the respect and importance attributed to us - simple students. Also about the informal atmosphere: tea, coffee and cookies were served and we were sitting with 7 officials around the table and asking questions.

After the visit I drank some tea and ate our home made sandwiches with S. and said good-bye to her and good luck to her when she boarded the bus to Arlanda. Then I met T., had some cappuchinos, a quick walk through a Vintage shop (second hand for X-mas) along the Drottniggatan and a nice talk in English+Macedonian+Swedish.

What could be my Swedish word for today... lat att tänka på... Jag är så lat. Lazy to think about it and lazy to study Swedish tonight.

Aah, now I remembered one new word from today - remsa or klipp? (equals strippenkaart in Dutch). That is the the strip ticket for many trips with many rows and the driver stamps 2 rows for 1 zone, 3 rows for 2 zones, 4 rows for 3 zones...

Klipp from where? Göra ett klipp = make a great deal. Maybe.

Wednesday, November 19

Blogging for language studies

Yesterday I found a really nice blog (click HERE to view it) called How to learn Swedish in 1000 difficult lessons

I hope the guy does not mind if I steal his idea (as I make a reference) and start my list of Swedish words. The word of past 3 days was snorar (puņķoties...have a running nose). Today I feel much better. And today's word is lämplig - suitable. särskilt lämplig - particularly (nu veeery) suitable. Īpaši piemērots vai īpaši atbilstošs. I should not forget my mother tongue either.