A Second Swedish Soundtrack
After last year's example, I thought it was nice to summarize my second year (well, 10 months) in Sweden with some more songs. Nice for myself, that is - whether it pleases my readers probably depends on your music taste.
I came back to Lund with last year's summer hit still in my ears. And as Avici is a Swede, I allow myself to post it here.
Okay, it's not a song, but it's still funny. In November, my study program brings me for a short trip to Oslo. It's around the same time that my housemates introduce me to the hilarious phenomenon "Ylvis". Here the attempt by this Norwegian comedian to speak Dutch.
With Christmas, the Swedes dance around the Christmas tree, as I told before. Mid-January, however, a friend invited me for something to something that could become: farewell-dancing on the day that the Christmas tree is kicked out of the house.
February means that the real work (= thesis) has started. That requires some good study music and as always Bach can come to rescue. (Not that it helped so much for the very-far-from-finished thesis, but I wrote lots of other assignments with this on the background.)
I posted this one before, but then in the 'organ version'. In whatever performance, I love it as a piece of music. Good study material as well.
Forgive me for including a hymn. It was sung during the Easter night Mass in Domkyrkan (but the video is not from Lund obviously) and it's one of my favorites. But that might have to do with the fact that it was anyways a special Easter for me.
Already in April, my dear housemates introduced me to this Swedish classic by singing it over and over. "The Summer is short, most of it rains away." Looking out of the window the last days before I left, I can confirm that this is often a truth in Skåne. But I don't mind too much.
Late April. The impressive Shabbat dinner in Jerusalem. This song is sung at the beginning of every Shabbat meal.
I took the train to Copenhagen (and there another one to Holland) on Thursday night and will return some time in August to Lund. In the train, I managed to meet the other Dutch student that lives at my student house - I had heard about him, but we just never met. (Our first meet-up was probably also the last, as he left Sweden foregood. But it was...coincidental. To say the least.)
I'm still not sure whether I'll include July in my 'I-have-to-blog-four-times-a-month'-rule. Otherwise, see you in some time later. Njut av sommaren!!
I came back to Lund with last year's summer hit still in my ears. And as Avici is a Swede, I allow myself to post it here.
Okay, it's not a song, but it's still funny. In November, my study program brings me for a short trip to Oslo. It's around the same time that my housemates introduce me to the hilarious phenomenon "Ylvis". Here the attempt by this Norwegian comedian to speak Dutch.
With Christmas, the Swedes dance around the Christmas tree, as I told before. Mid-January, however, a friend invited me for something to something that could become: farewell-dancing on the day that the Christmas tree is kicked out of the house.
February means that the real work (= thesis) has started. That requires some good study music and as always Bach can come to rescue. (Not that it helped so much for the very-far-from-finished thesis, but I wrote lots of other assignments with this on the background.)
I posted this one before, but then in the 'organ version'. In whatever performance, I love it as a piece of music. Good study material as well.
Already in April, my dear housemates introduced me to this Swedish classic by singing it over and over. "The Summer is short, most of it rains away." Looking out of the window the last days before I left, I can confirm that this is often a truth in Skåne. But I don't mind too much.
Late April. The impressive Shabbat dinner in Jerusalem. This song is sung at the beginning of every Shabbat meal.
I'm still not sure whether I'll include July in my 'I-have-to-blog-four-times-a-month'-rule. Otherwise, see you in some time later. Njut av sommaren!!
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