& on a different note...

[marshtide]

Mission: Be more active! And I don't mean cycling or whatever, because I do that! Go to talks if there are any. Meet people. Do fun stuff. Don't hide in a corner like a recluse. Possibly manage to speak some Swedish along the way.

Steps taken: tickets for Stockholm Pride - acquired. And I've subscribed to the feed for Hallongrottan (Stockholm's feminist bookshop!), since I hear they sometimes have neat stuff. Poked around På stan and gone, "really? The Millennium Trilogy tour of Stockholm? You have got to be shitting me. Dear world: what the hell." And I stared at a few anime forums but then I remembered that so many anime fans on forums are either 12 years old or believe they're on 4chan or both, and that this sort of carrying on being in Swedish doesn't make it any more bearable. Though presumably there are places to go; my search skills in Swedish are not, it has to be admitted, the best.

I shall now return to trying to explore the internet. In bad Swedish! If anyone knows of websites that might have information on interesting events (in and around Stockholm, for preference, since I don't believe there's much chance of anything at all happening out where I actually live & any other city is going to be too hard to get to) then I'd love to know.

Comments

[branchandroot]

*rueful* Not sitting in the corner is so much harder than it sounds, isn't it? I'm trying to not corner-sit too! Of course, it would help if more events here were in air conditioning, right now...

[marshtide]

It seriously is. I've got a few events lined up for the summer and early autumn but they're mostly with Val's family. I like Val's family, they're great people, but I could do with making more friends here and getting out more. (It's that bit tricker, over and above my general issues with being sociable and putting in the effort to find people I like, because this town is small and also the kind of place that most interesting people can't wait to leave. Stockholm is an hour+ away, and I sure as hell wouldn't actually want to live there in most respects. But when one's at the end of the day and still needs to get home it can be a real drag.)

[eggcrack]

Best of luck to your mission! Getting out of the corner is very hard, but I've heard doing something different from time to time is rewarding. Hopefully it's honestly that.

[marshtide]

Yeah. And my spoken Swedish isn't exactly great, so I'm kind of anxious about the whole thing - but if I start going to events where I can mostly listen first I think it'll get better.

[antisoppist]

I learned most of my spoken Finnish from joining a choir when I lived there but going out there and joining things is scary and I probably wouldn't have done that if someone hadn't answered my tentative enquiry with "yes, there's a choir and my husband runs it and it starts in half an hour, come on."

I translate from Swedish every day but my spoken Swedish conversations tend to be limited to "vad handlar det om?" "hur lång är texten?" and "när behöver ni den?". Last time I went to Stockholm, clients took me out to lunch and I suddenly went blank and forgot the word for spoon, which didn't exactly make me sound competent and professional.

[marshtide]

I experience this a lot! I mean I spend all my time outside of Sfi with people whose native language is Swedish, pretty much, and we talk Swedish quite a bit. Which mostly means they talk Swedish and I go "ja..." a lot and nod. I understand! I know words! But they do hide so. (I'm being a little hard on myself, I manage to speak more than that; but one's ability to talk does lag frustratingly behind one's ability to understand.)

random nerdy Stockholm tips

[dancing_moon]

If you want a very small, but very nerdy, Swedish anime forum the place to go is zmanga.se/forum

Otherwise anime.se/forum had a rather decent balance when I still had time to hang there (bohohoo, no time). Animecka.se is the most active and also the youngest

Serieteket is the comics library. Right in the middle of Stockholm, in Kulturhuset, they lots of neat stuff. Overall, Kulturhuset is neat.

If you want "regular" what's going on site, visit alltomstockholm.se
Good restaurant reviews too

I work at the Science fiction bookstore, which I actually used to show to my nerdy friends. Feel free to come by, I can show you around the old town and stuff.

If you come to Stockholm in august, take a look at the anime/manga con Meuwcon. It's usually a pretty mixed crowd, the gang that hangs around the karaoke room (i.e. me + my friends) are a bit older.

Re: random nerdy Stockholm tips

[dancing_moon]

which I actually used to show to my nerdy friends... ...before I started to work there.

Re: random nerdy Stockholm tips

[marshtide]

Ohhhh thanks so much! I'm a regular visitor to Serieteket & the SF bookstore (well, regular... about as often as I go into Stockholm, which isn't very much right now), but the rest is new to me. :) I'll definitely have to stop by and say hi sometime.