Nordic Nest is an (on-line only?) store in Sweden. You can get all sorts of stuff from Sweden on it. The site seemed very legitimate, so one day, I thought, what the heck, and placed an order. As soon as I press 'pay', however, I got a notice from my credit card -- they wanted… Continue reading Ordering from Nordic Nest
1. I applied for a job as a "Data scientist and GIS specialist" in Sweden. The job was located in a "peace and development" department. So the job title, and the job focus, were pretty much the summary of my PhD, which I had just finished. I sent my application in to SIPRI (Swedish International… Continue reading Job racism in Sweden and Europe
A long, long time ago -- 2012 to be exact! -- I read an article in the Huffington Post. It was a somewhat whiny article, I thought, and it was in response to some sort of uproar about Muslims in America happening at the time (though there have been so many uproars, I don't even… Continue reading Finding a Syrian-Danish-American online
I read the first Harry Potter book in Swedish. Here's all the words I was able to learn, either by context clues, or by remembering what the exact phrase in the original book was (so cool when that happened). Maybe you will recognize the scenes and the reason for these words, too: bläck -- ink… Continue reading Swedish words learned from Harry Potter
On this day, there were 1.9 million cases globally. In Sweden, there were 11,927 cases. And about 1200 deaths in Sweden. Yesterday, Anders Tegnell, who is the national epidemiologist, got a grilling, so he must have been tired. So today, it was Anders Wallensten talking. He's the vice-national epidemiologist. He said: we think we finally… Continue reading Sweden coronavirus press conference, April 15, 2020
Today it was very tense in the press conference. I never saw it like this before. On this day, there were 1.9 million cases worldwide. They gave the numbers for Sweden, as well, but they said: there's still probably cases stuck in the system somewhere that haven't reached the national database. (Spoiler: I think they… Continue reading Sweden coronavirus press conference, April 14, 2020
On this day, there are 1.8 million cases worldwide. Today, it was Anders Wallensten giving the main updates. When Anders Wallensten saw the first slide, he said: eh, eh, this is an old slide-deck, no? But he was told, no, this is the current one. So he went on, in a very hesitant voice, reciting… Continue reading Sweden coronavirus press conference, April 13, 2020
This press conference was different from all the others. This time, all the speakers (and there were four) were women. How nice. Instead of either Anders Tegnell or Anders Wallensten, the main epidemiologist was this lady. She speaks so nicely and clearly. Anders Tegnell is always slurring his words and ending in a mutter. Her… Continue reading Sweden coronavirus press conference, April 10, 2020
Among the first things they say: and in fact, the very first thing when it came to international updates: that the US has had a hard day. For the second day in a row, have almost 2000 people died. It's the highest figure so far. The USA has so far over 14,000 people dead of… Continue reading Sweden coronavirus press conference, April 9, 2020
On this day, there were 1.39 million cases globally. This was almost the same amount as the day before, so they thought, maybe updated figures were stuck in some database. There were 8419 cases in Sweden, out of which 726 people had been reported sick under the last day. I think not all those people… Continue reading Sweden coronavirus press conference, April 8
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