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January 2019
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The Language Barrier
Four months after I arrived in Sweden, I sat in my first ever Swedish class. I’d learned the language with Duolingo for a few months, so at that point, I was already familiar with the most basic words and phrases. Friends told me the first class would be really easy, bordering on boring. I thought…
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Finding A Job in Sweden
When we moved to Gothenburg, my biggest mission was to find a job. At the time, I was still working remotely for a startup company based in Singapore and India, but I knew I wanted to start working in a Sweden-based company as soon as possible. I finally got a job after what felt like a…
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Memories from Budapest – A Photo Diary
It’s been a year since my short trip to Budapest, but the memories remain vivid in my head. Budapest was an afterthought. “Oh hey, the flight from Prague to Budapest is really cheap. Should we make a detour?” That was how it was decided. Prague was the main course, and Budapest was more like a…
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My First Winter in Sweden
This post is a part of the writing project called Stories from the West that I started with Christa. We’re both currently living on the west coasts (Christa in the US, me in Sweden), hence the name of the project. We want to share our experiences living as immigrants, and every month we’ll write a…
Her Little Journal 