Category Archives: Journal

Sahlström exhibit

By lydia | Published: November 23, 2012

Field trip! The exhibit that was assembled in honor of Eric’s 100th birthday is still in place at the Upplandsmuseet, and we’d been looking forward to going to see it together. The spelklass had spent an afternoon session with Sonia a couple weeks earlier to talk about Eric, look at old photos, listen to some […]

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Malmö road show

By lydia | Published: November 22, 2012

It seems we are on the tour itinerary of the recruiting team for the Musikhögskolan i Malmö, so we got a little concert last night featuring some students from their world music degree program. There was also quite a lot of talking about the school and its offerings and teachers and why each of them […]

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Hazelius/Hedin at Kulturoasen

By lydia | Published: November 18, 2012

Free concert by my favorite band of the Linköping festival! (Well, no formal admission charge, anyway, but they do pass around a tip jar and everyone seems to take it seriously.) Also, fastest response time ever on the new-CD request: last month I posted here that “Björnlert/Pekkari/Hedin … should make a CD together so I […]

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Library card

By lydia | Published: November 13, 2012

I found something exciting and official you can do without a personnummer in Sweden: get your very own library card! So now I know where the library is in Tierp, and I have a (small) pile of (children’s) books to prove it. I also conducted the whole errand in Swedish — except that I discovered […]

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Aurora

By lydia | Published: November 13, 2012

Andrea’s and my first Swedish aurora! Johannes has been tracking the scientific data for several weeks, so he has a pretty good idea of when it might be worth going out to look. Also he’s scoped out our best nearby vantage point, which is just off the bike path toward the train station, at the […]

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Quiet weekend in Uppland

By lydia | Published: November 11, 2012

Mostly quiet around here for the weekend, just a couple of nice concerts to spice things up. Plus some homework, some tunes, I started reading my Pooh book in Swedish,… This weekend the distanskurs class was back, so there was a short concert for them (and us) here on Saturday evening with Bosse Larsson and […]

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