School is Cool!

     Well, here I am again! How about that! 

     The Svenska För Invandare aka SFI. This is where foreigners are taught Swedish and the government pays for it. Nice! I've spent hundreds on taking Swedish courses in the past. Even though I had very great instructors, I still don't speak much Swedish. So now that I am living in Sweden, I decided to step up a notch and train harder. I attempt (as my instructor suggested) to study additional 3hrs after class by using Memrise.com watching Youtube tutorials in Swedish. I also attend SFI class 3hrs a day Monday to Friday. I feel I have gained a better understanding of learning Swedish. It's starting to click in my brain, I am noticing voice inflections for pronunciation or "uttal." My vocabulary is picking up and my confidence is growing. I'm a little brain fried but, now starting to think in Swedish. My word order is switching to Swedish format, so now my English is sounding rather odd. 

     I don't mind it and am trying to be gentle with myself with the thought that these things take time to master. Rome was not built in one day, so Linda will not speak and learn Swedish in one day. 

     My classmates are from all over the world. They come from Thailand, Syria, Serbia, Bulgaria, Russia, Zambia, Nigeria, Senegal, Iran, Iraq, Hungary, Spain, Australia and Eritrea. So it is fun to learn a little about everyone's motherlands. Surprisingly,I believe I am the only American(possibly in the whole school)and I don't mind that one bit. Helps to keep the stereotypes and politics about the US to a minimum.

     Well, time to go study. I've been slacking the past 2 days, my brain needed rest. Until next week "Hej då!"

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Tack så mycket!

Time to Dust the Ol' Blog and Get to Bloggin'

I haven't posted much, because I am a slacker, yeah I said it. I always think of things to write about but then think, Nah! it will take to long to sit at the laptop and by then I will lose the thought and feeling of what I wanted to share. I've been Pinteresting like a mofo' and kept coming across Pins about blogging and I took it as the Universe telling me to get back to blogging. I do have things to share and say, just haven't felt so blog savvy to share them. So today I will make a pact with  myself to try to blog....drumroll please!!!! weekly. It may not seem a big feat to some but for this introverted woman it is grandiose.

So out of the blue after reading my dear sweet cousins blog, I decided why not again. She shares her passion for surfing and she's a Grandma, but she is far from being old. Surfing Grandma of the OC is her blog and it's fun and fresh like her. I too am a Grandma, but my grandson calls me Lola, which means grandma in Tagalog, my mother's mother tongue of the Philippines. As of late he started calling me Mom since my daughter calls me Mom during our Skype sessions.

So now onto my new life in Sweden. It's not so adventurous as I had envisioned, but then again I am a big daydreamer living in an introverts mind and body. So the big adventure kinda fizzles when it comes to doing it.. So things have gone quite slowly since our arrival, which makes for a not so adventurous adventure thus far. The highlight of my last week was I started SFI (Svenska för Invandares) or Swedish for Immigrants. I've only attended one class but it was nice and different.

I will tell more about it next week as not to make this post too long and uber boring.

 The Womping Willow I call it that is one of a few outside the school grounds, yeah I'm a HP geek if you didn't already know it. I love the knots and odd shape to these trees.

And my version Hogwarts, known as Vallbacksskolan, kinda impressive eh? Where the magic of learning Swedish happens. Haha!

So let's see how well I can keep to my pact of blogging next week. I will ask my instructor if there are any policies about picture taking on school grounds as I'd like to share my classroom and inside of the building. The introvert in me cringes at the thought of anyone seeing me take pictures but the daydreamer in me is all for it. Until next week!

Hej då!