My first life in Sweden

My first autumn

I visited Sweden as a tourist in October 2010. It was an autumn. The leaves were getting older. No! I mean, they were ready to take off to welcome the winter.

 I didn't see any snow yet but it was extremely cold. My boyfriend was standing at the airport and waiting for me with a piece of a thick jacket for me to wear. I didn't had any idea that it was so chilling. This made me remember any korean novels on tv which I usually watched home in the Philippines. Now, I could feel the smokes that were going in and out my mouth everytime I opened it. Finally, we walked in to his car and he drived us home. It was so tiring that I slept immediately when we reached our home. In the morning when I woke up, I couldn't see any neighborhood to us. It was an awesome experience that we're living in a peaceful nature. I am very sure that I am not in the Philippines anymore. I  received my first boquet of red roses as I enjoyed sitting in the table for breakfast.

The sun shone brightly as I tried to help my boyfriend clean our backyard. It was still cold. Surprising! What the sun is doing? Well, I really don't know. It is just the way it is.

 By the way, I would like to share this wonderful picture which I first became interested with. In most of the garden here in Sweden, people can see this old lady. I really don't know what she's dealing with but it is so funny.

My first Winter

In the first week of November, I finally saw and touched the first snow. I couldn't believe that they were like cotton, flying into the air. I thought that I could gather some of them and make "halo-halo" (it is a Filipino delicacy which the ice is grind to be finer and mixed with milk and fruits). But it wouldn't that easy. Snow is known to be the air-cleaner as my boyfriend said, that's why it should not be eaten because it is dirty.

Just before the snow became heavier, we visited a zoo in Borås, Sweden. Here is one of my favorit photo there.

In the month of December in 2010, the snow became heavier and it was so high, almost in many meters. Many people said that it was extremely much snow by that time. I could admit that it was amazing to look at snow, it made the nature white everywhere. This was how I feel for the first time. But later on when I finally discovered that it became ice when it hardened, I felt exhausted everytime I slipped on it. I hated it.

The lake hardened with ice was full of white smooth snow in January 2011. This was the time when I started to learn my first ice ski.

I learned to drive ATV and practiced it in the lake in February.

Because of our curiosity, I and my friend Joan tried to taste the frozen waterfall's ice that's flowing from the forest.

 Before the winter ends, I and my boyfriend went to the middle part of Sweden, where we visited Åre. A lot of people were renting skis and riding with them in the slidest point of the mountain.

I could have rent this scooter but it was enough with the Picture..hahaha!

My first Christmas

It was my first time to have a white christmas and celebrated it here in Sweden. It was not the same in the Philippines. It was cold with the wind here but it happens all the time. What I mean is that, I didn't feel it, just that. Christmas in the Philippines is really different! I received a piano from my love.

My first summer

During the spring season in april 2011, I flew back to the Philippines to process my visa. I gained a temporary Residence visa after a month of waiting. I flew back to Sweden in the middle of July, which exactly is the summer season. Midsummer in Sweden starts in the middle of June. And here continues my journey. We brought our housecar with us together with our bikes to our summer vacation in some corners of Sweden which people usually visited during the summer here.

My first visit in one of the beach here in Sweden. I didn't really remember where this place was but I really had enjoyed biking here. The sand was brown and fine but it was hard. Some of the people were bathing in the sea but I didn't think it was clean to bath there, a lot of seagrasses were following on the waves and some stayed on the seashores.

                             

        Visit to Båstad, where a lot of people were naked and trying to sunbathing.

Summer in Strömstad, Sweden with my boyfriend's friends. Here I am sitting and grilling with my love.

Summer in Koster Island on west cost of Sweden. We needed to ride on the ferry to reach this place. It is about 10 km west from Strömstad.

We brought our bike with us and biked to the mountain side of the Island to reach the highest point.

We even took a bath in the cold water of the oceans. We were not alone there, there were some people who sunbathing in that area as well. The water was surprisingly narrow but it was green and crystall water.

We had also visited some of the boat channel nearby. It is a lake builded around the land for boats to travel in. It is like a road for boats but it is filled with water. The boats can travel almost whole over the places in Sweden without using the oceans all the time.

Boat Channel in Trollhättan...

Here is a small boat channel which I didn't remember where it was. But I saw most of the boats were coming from Norway. How do I knew? There were flags in the boats.

  Some of the gota channels had we not visited this year but we did visit them the following year.

 We also went to west coast, there some of the boats hired for a parking. We biked to some areas and took some memories.  

 This place was amazing. I really thought I'm on the moon!

  We also found an area of stones near on the way out from that moon-liked-area.

 Here is another place which I visited but the problem is, I didn't really remember where this was. It was a kind beautiful there. It is near the ocean with fresh air and a lot of hard rocks in the seashore. No sands can be found here.

In August 2011, we looked at some car's show like tractors and trucks.

 Doing offroads adventure with jeep were followed the next summer, my second summer. There I really had have fun!


STOCKHOLM, Sweden

My first visit to Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden in September 2011. Here is a place where all songs is always done, Skansen!

I could see the GLOBE right there..it is "Globen" for Swedish. It is a place located in the middle of Stockholm where most of the big events are held, t.ex. are concerts, shows, and many more.

The reason why we visited Stockholm was...to look at Sharon's Cuneta Concert! It was my first time!

  My first day in school

I started Learning Swedish in October 2011 in Alingsås. Some of my close friends and classmates were: Chanakan, but I usually call her "Ning", she came from Thailand. I also have another thai friend and her name is Kob but I didn't have her picture. She is also kind and much shy.

 Here is Amina. She is a somalian but she grew up in Holand. She is nice and friendly. She really have a lot of friends. She speaks very good Swedish.

 How I wished to have their ( my others classmates ) pictures here but it is not easy. I just want to mention some of my classmates whom I didn't have pictures. Sula is from Brazil. She is the smartiest in the class as I think. She is friendly and silent. She didn't talk so much but she talked a lot during discussions. Adina, she is from Romania. She is Beautiful and intelligent. She is one of the smartiest student in our class. Naydi, is from Puerto Rico. She is also Beautiful and smart. She can play guitar and sketch. I actually had seen them in her walls home. She is also good in Swedish. Geraldine is one of a kind. She can speak very good Swedish and one of the smartiest student in our class. Sunny is from Korea. She is nice and can very good swedish. She is also active like Adina. Troy is from Australia and he is also smart in our class. Yui is from Thailand but she can pronounce "r" that's why I am really proud of her. She is smart and industrious. Richard and his brother Vivian are also my classmates. They can speak france but I forget where did they came from. They are friendly and the difference between these two brothers are; Richard is talkative while Vivian is a shy person. Katerina is from Grace. She is a biochem. She is also nice and friendly. Nicole is from US and she is kind and patient. I had a lot of classmates the first time I seated in my first class but I didn't recall everybody.

 These are my first experiences during my first visit in Sweden:)