*pats* It makes sense in the context of good intentions :)
I commented to someone above that a multi-cultural environment isn't easy - and that's just what makes it interesting. For what it's worth, one of the most fascinating people during my Erasmus term in Ireland was a Iraqi Kurdish woman who'd immigrated to Sweden after the first Gulf War. She was the oldest of us, and she'd been through some horrific things - if not for Sweden's policies she would not have been there at all, never would have had this opportunity to go with me and a Finnish girl to an English fort on an Irish coastline and wonder whether the guy we passed was an elf, with his pointy ears.
And she was living with an ethnic Swedish girl. When it was their turn to host our unofficial Erasmus dinners, they made Kurdish stew and pepparkakor. It all fit :)
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Date: 2010-09-18 06:21 am (UTC)I commented to someone above that a multi-cultural environment isn't easy - and that's just what makes it interesting. For what it's worth, one of the most fascinating people during my Erasmus term in Ireland was a Iraqi Kurdish woman who'd immigrated to Sweden after the first Gulf War. She was the oldest of us, and she'd been through some horrific things - if not for Sweden's policies she would not have been there at all, never would have had this opportunity to go with me and a Finnish girl to an English fort on an Irish coastline and wonder whether the guy we passed was an elf, with his pointy ears.
And she was living with an ethnic Swedish girl. When it was their turn to host our unofficial Erasmus dinners, they made Kurdish stew and pepparkakor. It all fit :)