For day 2 we will visit Sweden! Sven Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images St. Lucia is an annual candlelit procession on December 13th. Swedish girls where white full-length gowns and sing songs together. One girl selected as "Lucia" who wears a crown a lit candles. The Lucia celebrations include ginger snaps and [...]
Swedish au pair Malin S. is spending her year in Pamela Mayer Caes' River Forest, IL cluster. As part of her UCLA course requirement she did a presentation to twenty 10 and 11 year olds at Willard School in River Forest, IL. She showed where Sweden was on a map, and shared some general facts about [...]
Ida S. from Sweden, in Isabelle William's Kansas City cluster, submitted this photo with the following caption: "To celebrate Earth Day, my host kids and I walked around in the local park and picked up garbage from the ground. I got to do my favorite activity, walking around, and at the same time care for [...]
My name is Frida Norberg and I am from Sweden! My counselor is Jennifer Minnitti. I just wanted to tell you real short about how my life change when I arrived to my host family in northern Virginia. I am on my second year together with them. It has changed my life forever and my [...]
