26 juli 2008
It's blå och gul dag!
It's blue and yellow day!
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God morgon, Sjölunden.
Did you hear?
Everywhere today, there was a sea of yellow and blue (Sweden's national colors) because . . .
It's blå och gul dag!"
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Emilia and Martin always have plenty of fun ideas for flag raising both in the morning and right before dinner. |
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At flagghissning, they had the entire village gather in a circle around the flagpole. |
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They're almost ready . . . |
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They did it! |
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Almost everyone in Riksdagen wore gul och blå kläder! |
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Dagmar and Britta did the honors of raising the flagga. |
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Mia, Linnea, and Johanna show off their gul och blå. |
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Just about the only one NOT in gul OR blå kläder was the moth Alf found!
Here's a close-up view of that little critter. |
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Teo's hat certainly came in handy today!
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Zlatan,
a famous Swedish soccer star, even showed up at breakfast in gul och blå! |
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Besides Zlatan, Michaela, Astrid, and Liv kept us interested in the matpresentation. |
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Even Elli and Emilia were ready for gul och blå!
Check out the fingernails! |
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Hmmmm . . . whose feet are these? |
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It's Kajsa and Annika!
They wore a different gul och blå combination every meal today!
Here's how they looked at lunch! |
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Linda loves wearing gul och blå, too . . as do Barbro and Elli.
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This is Globen--the younger credit girls! They had plenty of gul och blå! |
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Time to go to språkgrupp! |
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Michaela is EITHER planning her lessons for her credit villagers today OR what her group will do for the food presentation for lunch! |
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After breakfast the studenter (credit students) always gather for a quick meeting. This morning backrubs were abundant.
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This morning Annika and Kajsa brought the credit students their portfolios. |
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Studenter study the portfolio requirements. The purpose of the portfolio project is to have a notebook to record their learning and which reflects their experience at Sjölunden this summer.
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Dagmar cannot wait to get started!
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The studenter are also working on a culture project. |
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Many studenter are working with partners. Dalmålning, a Swedish folk art, is the topic Saga and Jenny chose. |
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Kerstin is already busy clipping away. |
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Inga, Birgitta, and Janina are enjoying working together on the topic "Sports in Sweden." |
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The credit students are also taking some of their classes here just as Swedish students would do in Sweden.
For example, today Emy taught a class in choral musik--all på svenska, of course--just as she would in Sweden.
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The ledare watching were in awe of how well the studenter did! Emy did not have to adopt any part of her lesson because our studenter were not native speakers!
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Here's the new song that they learned today from Emy. It's called "Sol över oss." 
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Åsa, Michaela, and Evy get ready for their lunch presentation. |
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Today was the last day of this round of INTRESSE activities. Inga has been weaving all week. |
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Janina loves weaving (vävning)! |
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Mimmi did her vävning in shades of blue. |
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Cecilia and her brother Otto worked well together on a weaving. |
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Hanna och Lina show their weavings. |
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Nisse made a fågelholk (bird house). |
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Fia put her dalmålning on a coat hook.
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Tina put dalmålning on a wooden spoon and on a leaf.
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Mattias decided to give his dalmålning as a present. |
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Rakel put dalmålning on her name tag. |
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At flagghalning today, we had our Sjölunden version of the Olympics. |
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The event today was gymnastik. Two villagers represented each stuga and had 30 seconds to show a gymnastics "routine." Here is Sten from Riksdagen. |
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Our three judges were very impressed. |
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Next came Lillian from Skansen. |
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Again . . . quite an impressive performance! |
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But then came Cecilia! Wow! What a routine! |
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But it was Dagmar who scored an 11 from Styr Björn winning 1st place and a point for Skansen!
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Look who came to flagghalning tonight! It's Pippi and Alice! |
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What a fun matpresentation!  |
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And the food was pretty good, too! |
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Time for the DISCO!
A few girls who got to the disco early and who were out some of their intresse dances--like the cha cha!
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The line dances were the most popular. |
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Edvin shows his moves! |
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Meet the DJ's! There's Evy, Mia, Linnea, Johanna, and Annika! All of these ledare were once credit students at Sjölunden! |
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We ended the evening in a circle and sang one of our favorite songs--"Så länge vi har varann" (As Long as We Have Each Other). |
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Check out the Stockholm City Newspaper at left.
It says, "Sjölunden rocks!" (thanks to Elli!)
Natti natti! |
