by Sofi | 15,05,08 | ARTICLES, FEATURED, Swedish Work Culture
If you have worked, studied, rented a cottage, or sent your children to school in Sweden, you must have come across the peculiar use of week numbers instead of conventional calendar dates. That is to say, instead of saying May the 7th, most Swedes would refer to today... 
by Sofi | 15,04,28 | Uncategorised
VALBORG Tonight is Valborgsmässoafton, or simply, Valborg. Although it might not constitute the coldest night of the year, many of us will experience it this way. This event is generally perceived as the onset of summer, and encouraged by the warm sun of the daylight...