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Welcome to the internationela exchange group 2016!
A couple of days ago, on the 29th 2016 of february, they all arrived in a winter cold Sweden! 18 participants from all over the world gathered in Sigtuna Folkhögskola to start out a three months long exchange with Church of Sweden – they will share dayly life and faith with people in our congregations and hopfully…
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The future is beautiful
Me, Hlabirwa and our host for the evening are out eating supper at the restaurant Spur. It´s a very cold summer evening but the Afrikaners still sit with their compulsory shorts barefoot and the African people sit with their 5000 kg meat. They are happy and smiling, as if the problems were none. And maybe…
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What we really give
It has been a long day, we woke up at 7 o´clock and from 08.00-13.00 it was the confirmation service. We were also a part of the service when we held a short speech for the confirmands. The same confirmands we had held a Swedish confirmation class for two weeks earlier. After the service it…
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South Africa
I am sitting on the bus from Durban to Johannesburg after some extremely soft vacation days at the coast. The landscape outside varies, half an hour ago it was almost rain forest, now there are far savannahs with lots of cows eating the grass and with a bit luck I can see Impalas, springboks or…
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Life
You know those times when you get the feeling “how on earth did I got here?” Those moments can be the best ones. When the adrenaline pumps through out your body and it feels a bit exciting in the stomach. I´ve felt that feeling so many times the last one and a half year and…
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Church-backpacking
Two weeks ago my colleagues and I arrived to an extremely cold South Africa. The first night was extremely cold since there were no heaters and five degrees. Now that day feels like three years ago… So far it has been a church-backpacking journey. Since we left Jo-burg we´ve slept in 8 beds in 10…
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Årets utbytesdeltagare på väg ut i världen
Inom kort befinner de sig i Costa Rica, Brasilien, Tanzania, Södra Afrika och Filippinerna där de ska dela vardag liv och tro under tre månader. Följ dem på resan här via bloggen och på Instagram via #uidvk15
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Life It Self!
Life is a series of struggles, happiness, challenges, fears and changes. As of the moment I am facing all of this as I was sent to Sweden as a participant of the exchange program. Being part of “Young in a World Wide Church” is a big challenge, opportunity, and honor for me. As we were…
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Thank you!
It’s been thirty-six days since I’ve been here in Västerås, but the best thing is I’m not yet homesick. Wanna know why? It’s because of the acceptance this place given to me. I am not a Swedish, yet you treat me as best as your family. It was a very nice feeling being with every…
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Life is a Challenge and a Journey!
I have stayed here for more than a month now. Living in different families is difficult because I never know if I could fit in them, but Swedes are nice people, they might love to have space from others but they are very sweet to their families and they are very welcoming. I am really…
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