Sweden – Day 5 | Lerum to Ystad |

It was hard saying a goodbye today, and it just seemed hard today, harder than I thought it would be to leave lerum. After arriving at school in a rainy weather, we started with these sets of interviews – by students for their project about homo sexuality across different cultures, then about the opinion on death penality, about Human Rights situation and then a more formal one by the local newspaper about our stay in Sweden, the reason, the experiences, and cultural differences between India and Sweden and Norway. We then rushed to meet the SP2 class who were there, all gathered to tell us a proper bye. Pictures of these 4 days played on that big screen, and our dearest Mattias said the last amazing words to us. After loads of hugs and e mail address exchanges, we left Lerum with Åsa, who dropped us at the station.

We miss the amazing people of Lerum, and I say WE here cause I’m sure that my fellow Indian FKs think the very same. We felt at home from the time Mattias, Lene and Åsa picked us up at the Goterberg Central Station. And we felt welcome, all the time and no one could have taken better care of us… well, they did everything anyone could have done to take care of us. Lerum was an experience that we still talk about in Ystad now and even amongst ourselves. We felt great talking to students about our country and hear from them about theirs. It was great to talk about the differences in religious importance in the two societies, the power of the youth in the cosiety, the freedom available here, the differences in the education system, the differences in the relationships one has and the way one deals with it, and the opportunities available here. And in addition to these fantastic discussions, we met some fantabulous people who are just just fantabulous.

We are now in Ystad, the second school here in South Sweden which plans to send it students to Christ University this November and also some during the next year. We met two students of the Natural resource use programme who will definitely be coming to Bangalore this November, Marshall and Hanna, really sweet.After eating a spicy dinner (according to sharath, it was 50-60% of Indian chilli), we tried our hands at a Swedish cards game, which was ‘socialising’ as all what we did was stare at each other (it was part of the game).

Hanna and Marshall are definate to visit us in Blore in November

I wanted to mention about this place Ystad. Its amazingly beautiful and calm, and it just feels different being here. It is definitely very beautiful a place.

A glimpse of Ystad...

We are looking forward to the stay in Ystad now. Looking forward to meet new people with different perspectives and also looking forward to meet people who will join us in Bangalore in November. I leave this Saturday, quite a short stay in Ystad and quite less time with these new people, but I am looking forward to meet my dearest brother this Sunday after 6months, so that balances it for me now. It was great representing my country in Lerum and receiving an over whelming response. It’s probably a feeling which I cant exactly explain. But it was a feeling I will remember for a long time. And now, its in Ystad.

Thank you Lerum.