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Hey, I don’t know if you will read this, but I have to tell you that you were a major help for me a year ago. You have no idea how much of an influence your advice helped me to turn my life around.

I feel as though I owe you so much, so thank you!!!!

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How are you?

I am sending my Christmas greetings already, just incase I don’t see you here before the big day, I am sure I will but I would rather be safe than sorry!
So….

Hope you have a Fabtastic Christmas and new year!!!

Emily
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Congratulations!! And welcome to the world baby Annabell. Your birthday is only 1 day after mine!! Don’t give your mom too much trouble now, she makes some good brownies and you are going to want to eat them! Best wishes to you and your new family.

Haha, you’re right about Finnish.

Yes, Mumin is very dark. Tova Jansson is the author. Finland is bilingual. It used to be a part of Sweden before, so that Swedish with the special accent is the other official language. The author wrote a lot about ghosts, evil as well as nice, and there are a lot of “deep” thoughts involved in the plots. Many people love it. Myself, njae… I can watch it but I never found the books interesting.

Finnish people are funny. we use to say that they are like binary, “zero” or “one”, nothing inbetween, on or off.
There is nothing lazier than a lazy Finlander and nobody works harder than a Finlander. A drunk Finlander is more drunk than anything you have ever seen, and so on.

Bulls*** to generalize of course, but it fits amazingly often.

Sorry, I got lost in religious thoughts and arguments (I’ve got “Christian values” but was told that I couldn’t call myself Christian because of not believing in everything).

I don’t speak many languages. Beside Swedish and English I speak German and some Swahili. I learned French for two years and can make myself understood, but forgot most of it. Then, 2.5 years ago, I wanted to write a very long story about archeology in a Russian magazine, in Russian…
So realizing the embarrassing difficulcy of not knowing a word in Russian, I thought I’d better learn. So I did, and the story was written. I used those automatic web translators, but they can’t do the job. So I used Pimsleur courses and Rosetta Stone, 2,000 songs in Russian, and whatever web link I could find. I spent all the nights with that, and playing mp3 lessons and songs in the car and on my iPod.
So I can say that I can express myself pretty well and correctly in writing, but I did not speak Russian to a living soul until a week ago (when a customer from Latvia called …she was very impressed, making me glad). Anyway, I can’t say that I can SPEAK Russian, only write. In the beginning I put small stickers on the keys of my keyboard, but they fell off. I know where all the Cyrillic letters are by heart now, and have no such problem.

I also know some phrases in a lot of languages, but that does not mean that I speak those languages.

at work… coming back to you later

Lol, you are funny!

On the other hand the English word “flesh” means pork in Swedish, so some English expressions will be funny in Swedish, too.

Or why not elaborate “sätt på kaffet”, which literally and a bit carelessly could be translated into “fu** the coffee” …however that should be done…

I can tell you some other funny things about English too, but I guess that you have heard them.

The word “gift” could cover those two meanings in all languages …a relation easily turns from marriage to poison…

And “skatt”… well, there is a saying: “den enes bröd, den andres död” (food for one means starvation for another).

But seriously, that phenomena is similar in English. What is the Treasure Department? Who is the trasurer? It is those who rob you for all that you have!

Yes, all is well. I’ll just get my behind off the chair and go home…

OK, then how far away is the birth?
Now you will just have to relax, and enjoy the Swedish summer. It can be nice too, at times.

The last year I also lived on Hisingen, but between Lindholmen and Vågmästaren.

I have another name for Hisingen, calling it “Bet Naah-ren”, which is Aramaic (Assyrian) for “the land between the two rivers”.
Actually it is an island, between Göta Älv and Nordre Älv.

Like heaven to some, but sinful as Babylon to others, lol.

Then you found the right person, I’ve got wild imagination and I hope also the rest.

One of my Swedish friends moved to Budapest and another of my friends is from Budapest, a Hungarian.

About the rain, you also live in the rainiest part of Sweden. That is because wind mostly come in from the west. As of the south part of Sweden, most of the rain already fell over Denmark before reaching Sweden, and in the north parts the clouds are emptied over Norway (the Norwegian city of Bergen is a real rain spot).

West of Gothenburg there is neither Denmark nor Norway. There is only the Atlantic.

Haha, the new tunnel?
As long as I can remember, I’ve seen those stickers on cars “Ny alvforbindelse!!”.
So, when they eventually started to dig themselves down, they ended up like a failed prison escape… …the same side of the river!!!
Half of the traffic don’t even WANT to be in Gbg, but just passing. They should have built an E6 bypass already decades ago!

I made a nice joke in Sthlm, 20 years ago. I had got some paid parking fines in return after winning a case, and I decided to put the money on public welfare… So I had rolls of tiny stickers printed, and I put them up everywhere in Stlm.
The sticker said:

“Don’t put Silicone in the parkometer machine (available from nearest gas station)”

Reportedly, that joke costed around 2.5 Mill’s, so I wasn’t the most popular guy with the parking authorities. But it was a soooo nice revenge!

We moved here from Småland, from a very very small town. Our morgage was 900 SEK a month!!! It was great to be in the nature. We had to follow our job here. I am working as a English Corespondance secratary, I translate stuff from Swedish, or write stuff in English (speeches, papers, letters, etc.) I am also studing to teach English. We have to stay close to our jobs, but we have a HUGE garden so when we are outside we do not feel like we are near the city (even though we can see the lipstick in Göteborg from here). We also put up fences topped with barbed wire, got a huge security system, and I bought the biggest watch dog I could find he weighs about 55 kilo. So People come on in I dare you. About the traffic- maybe things are better now since they openend the new tunnel??? Do not get me started on parking tickets!!!! We always get them unfairly- we always fight them, and usally win. Thanks for you mail. I feel better now. I am home on semester in my pajamas watching the freezing rain fall. It has not stopped in two weeks…

Well, we care from where I come, too!
And I’m Swedish.
But as I said, Gothenburg isn’t my favvo city.
They have known about the traffic situation since many decades ago, but instead of doing anything about it, they squeeze money out of the traffic. It isn’t a coincidence that a piece of the Gota Alv bridge fell down last year when a cleaning machine passed…
The only positive thing I have seen in the traffic is that the zipper system (every second car) works better than in other places. I guess that it is because everybody have the same enemy, i.e. the traffic authorities…

Backa isn’t the best place, either. A lot of wannabe thug kids around. Can’t you move out of the city? I mean far out, where property is cheap and where people are more friendly?

I lived also in Molnlycke, which is a joke. A lot of wannabe richies, pretending that it is a big city. Even the parking authority Gatukontoret (”gatflickor” and “p-nissar”) paid money for the rights to go there and put parking tickets. I got tickets on my own paid parking spot and had to go to court twice to get them off my shoulders. They simply reckon’ that people rather pay than go through all the trouble to have their rights. It gets me pi**ed off!

Move to the countryside, somewhere between Helsingborg and Angelholm! Property is next to nothing, two cities within ten minutes and a lot of them within an hour, including Elsinore and Copenhagen. Lots of jobs if you don’t need it nextdoors. Should you want to go south by car, you’ll drive into Paris in the evening the same day! (where I live now, I can hardly even leave Sweden the first day of driving…).

So, What are you doing for a living?

Lol, you live in the worst place…
I’m fed up with Gothenburg, God’s plague for humanity…

I even wrote a rap text for my kids, something about how Karl XII turned Sweden’s face towards Russia (a Swedish king who conquered half of Russia).
But if the face is towards East, what is than towards West? If you want a lead, follow “Göte’s Anal” (joke) and you will end up in the “Shitty City” (i.e. Gothenburg)…

I am from Skane and regard even Gothenburg as Norrland… lol… but I live even further up north now, in Gavle.

The best thing I can tell about Gothenburg… well, it would be that Stockholm is worse…

Actually Gothenburg would be fairly OK if it wasn’t for the politicians, the criminal kid thugs, and for the chaotic traffic situation. I have been driving in NYC, and even larger cities, e.g. Sao Paulo with a population more than the double of entire Sweden’s. Gothenburg is more hostile to traffic than those!

In what district of Gothenburg do you live?

Have you had the baby? Hope you’re ok.

Wow! That’s great news. Annabelle Tallulah is a lovely name and yes, I have been to Tallulah Gorge. I’m flattered and honoured to be an internet God Mother, thank you!!

I love brownies, I’ll pretend you’ve left me some on the door step so I’ll feel less guilty when I go buy some and eat them all.

And to answer your question, the Multiple Sclerosis Trust is a charity close to my heart as my mother was diagnosed with MS last year.

Take care and best wishes to you and baby Annabelle Tallulah.

do not worry, it is obvious to me the compassion that you have. You are yearning for a child so deeply that I am sure G-d will grant you one.

Hi, I’m pleased I was able to help. Best wishes to you and your baby. I still miss Ga a lot. I was there for 11 years. It’s funny what you miss. I miss how big the houses were and shopping malls and fruit loops cereal.

Hi welcome!