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It’s my first time to join Vår Ruset yesterday at Slottsskogen (park). It’s a yearly race for women here in Sweden and Gothenburg had its turn yesterday. It happens in the month of May when Spring is at its best. All women at work or in different organizations are welcome to join. Unfortunately, we didn’t get a bit of luck [...]
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We thought our final gathering at work this time would be uninteresting since we were told that the administration would not be treating us a free Christmas smorgasbord (julbord). We were instead told to have potluck, which sounded more or less pleasing to everyone. But it turned out to be a smorgasbord (smörgåsbord) of international food culture. From pasta to pirogue, spring rolls [...]
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This autumn break has been relaxing for me despite the paperworks I’ve needed to be done. But that’s the life of a teacher – working a little on school breaks. We’ve had to work for three days this week and yesterday, the final day, was a competency development at the Swedish National Museums of World Culture. The [...]
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After the draining kick-off meetings at work our most anticipated teachers’ trip was nonetheless invigorating after all. This time we acted as tourists in our city by using a 24-hour Gothenburg City Card that our headmasters purchased earlier for us. The day of the trip had coincided with the city’s Culture Festival and high season for tourists so we perfectly mixed with the real ones. There were [...]
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Schools have been officially closed for summer break since last week but the teachers’ last day of work will not be until tomorrow. What’s with this and that, the teachers can’t just start their break at the same time as the students. We had our closing day at work last Friday while we had our [...]
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As you may have known my job includes administering study guidance to students and this does not limit to one or two subjects. Most of the students that I come to work with need help in Mathematics and other subject areas that deal with Maths. Because of this I came to realize that Maths is [...]
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