Saturday, August 22, 2009

What We Didn't Expect From Sweden

There are so many things we did not expect from the Swedes/ Sweden. This is our running list:

  • mini - sized everything (such as pillows, towels, papertowels, refrigerator, oven, shampoo bottles)
  • everyone is SOOO kind
  • Jen's sunday school class to be taught in English
  • sinks and papertowels in each bathroom stall (and doors of each stall that run from ceiling to floor)
  • toilets with full and half flush
  • A towel heater in our bathroom (which seems to be a norm)
  • The binders have four holes in the middle instead of three (more stable!)
  • 25% retail tax, but included in the advertised price
  • Hospital visits to cost around $70 US dollars which includes EVERYTHING from the bed to the food to the services, such as occupational therapy
  • the yolks of our eggs to be neon orange
  • the occupational therapy program is only 3 years long. our class (in our 4th year at IC) is with students in their 2nd year at Jonkoping
  • Swedes schedule according to the week number of the year (example, we start clinical fieldwork at the beginning of Week 45 and our exam is during Week 48)
  • our classes to be so long (some of them are 3 hours long each)
  • Swedes eat sandwiches with no bread on the top! And, they eat sandwiches for breakfast and fika, but not for lunch. Crazy, huh
  • TO MEET SUCH GREAT FRIENDS!

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