Smörgåsbord

Smörgåsbord isn't that hard to explain/understand I believe.

It's a Scandinavian meal wich we use to eat at christmas and other times when we use the cellebrate something.

It contains of both hot and cold dishes.
The food on the smörgåsbord contains of different kinds of spread to put on the sandwich but also "normal" food like potatoes, Swedish meatballs, some sausages etc.

And I believe that it from the beginning comes from the poor swedish people in the past, which couldn't afford some real food so they just took what they have got and put it up on the table and ate a little bit of everything.

Travelling in Sweden

If I would go somewhere in sweden together with my friend I believe we would go on a Snow-mobile trip out in the forrest where I live.
We would just jump up on the snow-mobile and then give the pedal to the metal out in nowhere in the swedish nature.
We could maybe make some pitstops and eat something or maybe sleep but for the most we would just drive and have fun.
We could also just take the volvo for a hell of a ride out in the forrest.

During summer we would probably take a really long trip on the bikes and maybe cykle down to the south of sweden like ystad, malmö or trelleborg.

The Swedish school-system

I think that the Swedish school-system works pretty well.
To go 9 years in the school is compulsory and it's called "the ground school" here in sweden and it's in the age of normally between 5/6 and 15.
After that you can start to work but it will be really hard to find some work so you can say that the college or "gymnasium" as we call it also is compulsory, and you got to go to college for 3 years.
After that it will be alot easier to find a job becasue you're probably about 18 years old and you also got some education.
But you often have to study a bit more if you want to work with something wich is not an "easy" work wich often use to be low-payed.

So you do atleast have about 12 years in the school.
But the school here in sweden is for free during "the ground school" and the college.

Something that  I belive that we could improve in the swedish school-system is that it soulden't be that many holidays.
In my opinion I think about 3-4 months a year is way to much.I believe it would be better to have shorter vacations and get out in the workinglife earlier instead and maybe get more quality into the education in the school.

Lagom

"Lagom" is a very tricky but a very good and useful word.
The meaning of the word is that it's just enough of something.
From the beginning I've heard that the word comes frome the vikings, when they sat together and drank some beer they all drank through the same can and then thay sad "lag om" which means around the whole team and then everybody drink just as much as they have to so it would be enough for everybody.
So if I would translate the word lagom into english it would be something like " teamtrough" or maybe "team around".

Bobby

Hi everybody and welcome to my blog about Sweden =)