This week, our program took us to Finland’s capital, making it easily one of my favorite weeks abroad. We boarded a cruise line Friday night, danced the night away, and woke up in Helsinki, Finland. I was separated from my friends for the morning. Most people had signed up to go to the saunas and…
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Beauty and Bathing in Budapest (and Stockholm)
My fifth week began like most other weeks. I work from home three out of five days of the week, so I used my flexible schedule to expand my European wardrobe. As I expected, I’ve found the overall fashion in Sweden to be quite different than America’s. The stereotype that Europeans dress much nicer than…
Adapting into Swedish Culture
Before I started, I assumed the cultural side of working in Sweden would be the difficult part, and that the work itself would be the straightforward part. What I’ve found is almost the complete opposite. The parts I expected to struggle with turned out to suit me, and the part I assumed would be simpled…
Some Hurdles of Communication in Stockholm
Before arriving in Stockholm, there was a fear of a communication issue in the workplace. However, I was pleasantly surprised with the ability to communicate with my other interns and the partners, as everyone spoke and wrote in English, allowing for me to understand past documents and what they were conversing about. A lot of…
Swedish Cultural Competencies
The final week of life in Sweden has been truly bittersweet. For my last weekend in Sweden, my roommate and I took a trip to Amsterdam. This was the second country we went to during the internship, and it was honestly my favorite. It was completely different from Sweden and much more crowded this time…
Week 7 – Reflecting on Communication Differences
One of the biggest adjustments I have experienced during my internship in Stockholm has been learning how communication differs from what I am used to in the United States. Before coming to Sweden, I had heard that Scandinavian countries valued directness and efficiency, but I did not fully understand how those values would affect everyday…
Week 7 – Communication and familiarity.
I may have boasted about my new ability to complete work without too much feedback… but I have noticed myself running into the same problem when working remotely. For the last week or so, my supervisor and I have switched to fully remote work, since we did a form of “goodbye” shift when my coworker…
Week 6 – Becoming my own leader.
It is hard to believe I am coming up on the last full week of my two months in Stockholm! We just finished our last weekend trip, this time to Helsinki, and for the rest of my time here I am going to try to soak up the city as best as I can. As…
Sailing home soon
On the home stretch in Sweden with less than a week left! I’m sad to go, but It will absolutely be nice to head home. This past week I got to go to the Vasa museum, where the previously sunken ship the Vasa is kept. The ship was restored in the 1920’s after sinking in…
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