Have you ever seen a whole country transformed almost overnight?
Well...if you lived during the French Revolution or during the American War of Independence maybe...
But if you want to see it year in and year out...then you have to move to Sweden. Stockholm in particular. All through the dark, cold and dreary winter, people are dressed only in dark, boring colors! Not a hint of color anywhere! And this is matched by long weary faces and silent subway trains that sometimes feel like graveyards (well...except at 11pm on Fridays. Its amazing what a few shots of vodka can do to the noise level on a Stockholm underground platform)
But as soon as the temprature starts to move into double positive numbers, oh My God! People start to say hello on the streets, on the trains and even in the restaurants when you go in for a meal (ok an exaggeration, they are still courteous in restaurants during winter) and the whole country comes out in a full color spectrum!
Mini skirts, sphagetti tops, tank tops, T-shirts, short knickers, flip flops, Tube tops, sneakers, all these shoot up in price and are paraded by some of the most beautiful people God has seen to put on Mother Earth. Before I came to Sweden, i was told Swedish girls are the most beautiful in the world. I have been reminded of this very forcefully as summer sweeps over this the Land of the Midnight Sun! Swedes really are beautiful people. I concur!
As i wind up my time in this wonderful country, i am glad i am leaving it when it is at its most alluring and attractive. Both in terms of weather and people! Over the next month, i shall post the most striking things and memories of my time here in Sverige! Pic here is:
from left: Aron - MCPe; Maria my teammate; Emma my MCP; Me and; Joanna former MC member in Finland and member of the AIESEC Sweden Advisory Board
We had just had the last Advisory Board meeting for the current year and we were on the way to have dinner with the Board members
Det varn som Fan! (Well I'll be damned!)
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