Okay it’s March 1st and I am two months late on the resolutions. But hey, at least they are done now.
So from the Resolutions 2008, this is what I accomplished:
Find a nice guy- he’s the poor guy who is the butt of all rants and jokes now.
Learn Snowboarding- sort of did…went three times at least!
Learn Swedish- still in the process of doing so.
Get an apartment- did so by myself and now live with the sambo.
Get a job (instead of graduate school)
Pursue photography…sort of happened as well
Resolutions 2009, here we come!
Update, on a regular basis, all my blogs
Save money to buy a place in Stockholm
Put away the mini Christmas tree (yep, it’s still up!)
Continue to pursue photography
Enjoy life with the Swede
I asked a Swedish guy friend of mine about his thoughts about Swedish girls and interacting with them on dates. Surprisingly, or not, Swedish girls are quite similar to American girls when it comes to certain dating interactions.
Here are his thoughts, as a male Swede, how women act and what we all can learn.
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The World of a Nomad is now sitting here at Lost in Stockholm.
I think it is about time I got my own webhost so this blog could become…a bit more fancy.
Please update your bookmarks and blogrolls to Lost in Stockholm.
It’s been a long time since I had the time to write, my apologies. I have been caught up at work and then more work and then more work. Good news is that it’s getting a bit less.
But this week we have something special. I convinced my boyfriend, Þorbjörn (again, not his real name), to give his observations of Americans and American women. Since I’ve asked plenty of questions about the Swedish man, might as well learn about what he thinks of us.
Here are his Swedish opinions about us American girls:
1. The United States likes to take on the James Bond approach with girls.
2. For being such an advanced country, people are very conservative and rather sexist.
3. I always found it funny when my girlfriend would have guests staying the night, usually girls, and they would freak out if I was wearing my t-shirt and underwear at night. Do I have to be fully dressed at all times?
4. American girls like to get presents, flowers, chocolates, and all sorts of gifts and crap. They seem to want us to do the work. Well, not that Swedish girls don’t like gifts, but American chicks seem to expect it more.
5. They speak English; which yes is not a profound statement but still, I spend most of my time now speaking and understanding English.
6. American girls are more flirty. At times they can confuse Swedish guys because they are being friendly but the guys think otherwise.
7. If an event is supposed to be dressy, Americans love to get really dressed up. People are allowed to stand out from the crowd, and that’s okay.
8. I don’t get American dating. It seems that you can ‘date’ more than one person at a time, and then at some point you become ‘exclusive’ with one person. I think my life would be very complicated if I dated more than one girl at a time.
And I definitely don’t understand the three day rule. If I get a girl’s number and she gets mine, and I like her, I don’t think you have to wait three days. She can call me too.
9. It is easy to start a conversation with a stranger. When you are at a bar in the US, you can chat with the person next to you and it’s cool. Do it in Sweden and most people will find you weird.
10. American girls are just as complicated as Swedish girls. They are still women after all. =)
I met Hairy Swede this past weekend. Really really awesome to meet a fellow blogger IRL and also discuss the same problems with Stockholm. For the most part, those problems were quite amusing (why does the alcohol monopoly exist? why are old women always wearing fur coats? what’s wrong with the housing market?).
In any event, we got to chatting about blogs and came up with a great idea. Since this blog is about dating and there are lots of amazing comments here, there’s going to be a new project. It’s called The Love Refugee Project and I need all of your help.
Here’s what I am looking for:
Foreigners who moved to Sweden for a Swedish love and are still together
Foreigners who moved to Sweden for a Swedish love and are no longer together
Foreigners who followed another foreigner to Sweden for love (e.g. american following another american because one came for work)
Foreigners who moved to Sweden just because but found love
This project will take place over the next 6 months and I hope to compile stories, photos, etc to publish (where, I don’t know yet).
If you would like to be interviewed and have a free fika, please email me at chotipreeti at gmail dot com.
Thank you!
