Recently we
received a writing assignment in our Swedish class: “tell about a cultural experience that you
have had recently”. We then received an
invitation from our class to visit the Modern Art Museum in Malmö (for free ~
bonus!), and we grinned at each other and thought “this is great, we’ll have a
fresh in our memory kind of cultural experience that we can share in class”.
Off we went
to the Museum. Modern art has never been
my thing, and there was a lot about this museum that I didn’t
particularly appreciate. It was mostly
related to some of the secular ideas represented in the special exhibits and
the emptiness portrayed on the faces of the young Swedes in the videos. There was a video entitled “hemland”
(homeland) that featured the journey of refugees across Europe from 2015 that I
found particularly interesting. There
was some interesting art that we both appreciated from Poland during the WWII
era that captured our eyes as well. We
walked away with lots of material to present in class for our next class when
we had to talk about our recent cultural experience.
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| This particular piece attracted both of us |
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| Hanging out with fellow students doing our assignment |
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| Aren't we looking all cultured and chique! |
Add to that
the opportunity we then had two days later to attend a short (50 minute)
mini-opera called Var är du, Prosepin? (Where are you, Prosepin?) and you might
think that all we’re doing is hanging out at cultural events in and around the
city of Malmö.
It’s all
about language learning. Some days you
do it in the classroom.
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| Doing an interactive program on the computer ~ all my answers were wrong because I forgot to put in an exclamation point after the imperative form (e.g. go a little faster!) |
Some days it’s
all about what you can learn at the språkcafé (a conversational evening that we
offer each Thursday at church).
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| Say that three times fast....something definitely gets lost in translation, because in English it translates "seven sick seamen were treated by seven singing nurses" |
Some
days it’s language learning that happens even as you attend the World Day of
Prayer and learn not only Swedish but what the locals do when there is a sudden
burst of snow…
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| This little bit of snow caused us to.... |
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| Wear surgical booties when we walked into the church meeting place for the World Day of Prayer....only to discover that we were the only ones in the room wearing the plastic booties as we entered the meeting place.....learning from the locals! |
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| Another cultural event as we celebrated World Day of Prayer in the state church's meeting place |
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