being a conventionally attractive person with decent English in Sweden is really funny bc you'll hear all these (btw, true) stories about Swedish ppl not liking small talk (and being really hard to befriend), but then they'll REALLY want to practice their English, esp. with YOU
yes, sure, this won't get you true friends, especially not at instant, but in a sense it is really funny to watch them struggle having to pick between their hyper-individualism and their wish to be seen as open and international
I’m being completely serious please download and preserve what you find important from the internet. this shits tumultuous as fuck. we need to pass down information that truly mattered.
i swear the aurora is avoiding me because whyyyyy have i had like 5 chances in my life so far to see it and eeeevery time the weather (or being too South) ruined my chances
the other day i had to tell my friend what "store room" is in Hungarian; and this is a fairly common experience with my friends here, even they need to tell me some words in Hungaeian sometimes because i only use them in English
my favorite part of diaspora life is when you meet other diaspora speakers who also have been in your host country for years, and you chat in your native language and randomly remind each other of how certain words are in your mother tongue
like i was here during the summer solstice and yes we only had like 1-2 of total darkness and yes i could see dawn on the Northern sky, and yes i needed a sleep mask to go to bed at 3 am, but that's not the same
can't wait for people to buy their (relatively cheap) flight tickets to the Stockholm/Malmö/Göteborg holy trinity of Sweden because of Zara Larsson's influence, only to find out that you need to go to the Arctic circle to actually see the midnight sun 💀
i'm singing Midnight Sun as if it wasn't almost October, sunset a bit after half past 6 in the evening, and only 6°C at night
SUMMER ISN'T OVER YET THOUGHHHH