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Lunch Punsch

By Joanna Tsai
7 april, 2011
Lunch Punsch
Today a Swedish friend invited me to a traditional Swedish pea soup and pancake lunch at a medical student commune/coop in a beautiful building on the outskirts of ...
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European Hotel Beds

By Joanna Tsai
5 april, 2011
European Hotel Beds
It seems like everywhere I travel in Europe there are no options for ONE two-person bed.  All the rooms just have two single beds that you have to ...
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Lazy Europeans

By Joanna Tsai
4 april, 2011
Lazy Europeans
Europeans have a reputation for being lazy in America.  After all, if Americans knew that Europeans have as many as SIX WEEKS OF VACATION a year, they’d probably ...
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Do Swedes all look the same?

By Joanna Tsai
3 april, 2011
Do Swedes all look the same?
I have gotten some compliments in Sweden that I am interesting because I am exotic.  In other countries this usually refers to my half-Asian descent.  However, in Sweden people ...
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Sweden's glass

By Joanna Tsai
31 mars, 2011
Sweden's glass
Apparently Sweden has an important history in the field of glass-making, which I didn’t know until one of my Fulbright colleagues told me.  It’s quite interesting and now I want ...
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there and back again, joanna's tale

By Joanna Tsai
28 mars, 2011
there and back again, joanna's tale
I just returned from Berlin after a week-long Fulbright conference (the program that’s allowing me to be in Sweden).  It was fabulous and it felt like being in ...
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Helsingor pictures

By Joanna Tsai
18 mars, 2011
Helsingor pictures
A longer description of my recent journey to Kronborg, the Danish castle that inspired Shakespeare’s setting in ”Hamlet” can be found on my March 23rd column post (http://eng.lundagard.se/category/kronikor/). ...
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Saying Goodbye

By Joanna Tsai
15 mars, 2011
Saying Goodbye
In some social situations in the US when I want to leave, I try to sneak out of the room without being noticed.  I don’t see this as ...
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Miike Snow @ the VEGA

By Joanna Tsai
14 mars, 2011
Miike Snow @ the VEGA
I’ve just left a small but fun birthday party and the band Miike Snow, pronounced ’Mike Snow,’ has popped up on my iTunes playlist.  If your name is ...
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Utensils

By Joanna Tsai
13 mars, 2011
Utensils
Tonight I had dinner at Wermlands Nation, which is frequented by international students.  We had a Vietnamese-inspired dinner and a random but very tasty raspberry crumble.  On the bar where ...
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