Search results

Of course you fear The Swedish Stallion.. but he is coming, coming all over you.

Short update... I've decided to do this and this weekend I will be moving to a folk school on some island here in Sweden for two months before heading down to England. Excited!

Not a big fan of big cities generally speaking. Capital cities are usually a lot of stress, a lot of tourists, expensive, high rise buildings of glass and steel, too much movement and too little familiarity. If I go to a pub five times, I want to recognise some faces.

Nice tagging. Sounds... fun. And yeah I figured that about GB.. .he wants all the bitches to himself, cant deal with a bit of Viking competition.

I've heard from British students over here that pizza over there is both quite expensive and usually not very good. Think I'd generally go for more British food if I stayed there a few months, part of the experience is to adapt to the culture.

Nope, website says it is almost always cheaper though. £142 per week with one meal a day included with the family (tbf I could probably imagine paying a bit more to be allowed to eat by myself in my room..).

Some pros and cons it seems... if it wasnt for the pandemic I would have easily gone... difficult to decide now but I have a few days to make a choice.

Hmm... tbf the host families seems to be more spread out, the only thing is that everyone is "within 25 minutes of walk from a bus going to Portslade" so I might not have to live in Portslade itself. But I get the general impression, behind those careful words, that Portslade may not be fantastic.

I'm thinking about doing this thing - https://www.folkhogskola-england.se/ - studying on a "folk high school", three months in Sweden and three months (28 March to June something) in Portslade. While it says it is only 8 minutes by train from Brighton (and one hour from London but who wants to...