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marshtideLinks...
English:
1. Tony Porter talks about how fucked up current ideas of masculinity are. (Discussion of rape and violence against women.)
Svenska:
(NSFW alltihop. Reklamen på Bangs hemsida är alltid något... du vet.)
2. En idealisk gärningsman av Niklas Hellgren (våldtäkt, ras, föredomar)
3. Konst som splittrar nationen av Tiina Rosenberg (SD, främlingsfientlighet och konst som nånting som bör vara skönt och ge glädje - eller bör provocera)
4. De osynliga systrarna av Susan Behnam (gammal artikel om invandrarkvinnor och kvinnorörelsen)
Jag blir lite kär i Bang ibland. Har ni favorit tidskrifter på svenska som jag kanske skulle tycka om...?
I feel unsure about how to describe my interview experience. It felt positive; but on the other hand, I've had such overwhelmingly negative experiences of interviews before that I can't say if that's a skewed perspective talking. It could just mean "I didn't even panic a little bit."
The really positive thing here, I think, is that I know now that I'm capable of doing an interview without hyperventilating, which has been a traditional problem and a barrier to gainful employment. What's more, I can do it in Swedish - and regardless of outcome they were really impressed with my language skills and said so several times. (Sometimes I do feel like Swedish has been a key to a bunch of things for me, particularly expressing myself with confidence, which maybe sounds weird considering I'm not actually capable of such complex expression as I am in English. I'm sure it's also coincidence in that my mental health has improved a lot over the last year, but the end result is that I can now do things in Swedish that I couldn't have done in English last year.)
I never did talk about my exam much, did I? The key points are:
1. I got to write a short comic piece on the topic of LGBT parenting (there were a few themes to pick from, one of which was children and childhood, so I ran with it). I got very high marks.
2. My spoken test was on the subject of gender equality. ...I got very high marks.
I detect the hand of D in the latter. He's the younger of my two teachers, and delights in provocative topics, and is very good at asking the questions that people try to avoid. He's thoughtful and precise in his expression of ideas and I suspect that a day when he gets to challenge people's preconceptions is, for him, an excellent day. Yes, we got on rather well.
English:
1. Tony Porter talks about how fucked up current ideas of masculinity are. (Discussion of rape and violence against women.)
Svenska:
(NSFW alltihop. Reklamen på Bangs hemsida är alltid något... du vet.)
2. En idealisk gärningsman av Niklas Hellgren (våldtäkt, ras, föredomar)
3. Konst som splittrar nationen av Tiina Rosenberg (SD, främlingsfientlighet och konst som nånting som bör vara skönt och ge glädje - eller bör provocera)
4. De osynliga systrarna av Susan Behnam (gammal artikel om invandrarkvinnor och kvinnorörelsen)
Jag blir lite kär i Bang ibland. Har ni favorit tidskrifter på svenska som jag kanske skulle tycka om...?
I feel unsure about how to describe my interview experience. It felt positive; but on the other hand, I've had such overwhelmingly negative experiences of interviews before that I can't say if that's a skewed perspective talking. It could just mean "I didn't even panic a little bit."
The really positive thing here, I think, is that I know now that I'm capable of doing an interview without hyperventilating, which has been a traditional problem and a barrier to gainful employment. What's more, I can do it in Swedish - and regardless of outcome they were really impressed with my language skills and said so several times. (Sometimes I do feel like Swedish has been a key to a bunch of things for me, particularly expressing myself with confidence, which maybe sounds weird considering I'm not actually capable of such complex expression as I am in English. I'm sure it's also coincidence in that my mental health has improved a lot over the last year, but the end result is that I can now do things in Swedish that I couldn't have done in English last year.)
I never did talk about my exam much, did I? The key points are:
1. I got to write a short comic piece on the topic of LGBT parenting (there were a few themes to pick from, one of which was children and childhood, so I ran with it). I got very high marks.
2. My spoken test was on the subject of gender equality. ...I got very high marks.
I detect the hand of D in the latter. He's the younger of my two teachers, and delights in provocative topics, and is very good at asking the questions that people try to avoid. He's thoughtful and precise in his expression of ideas and I suspect that a day when he gets to challenge people's preconceptions is, for him, an excellent day. Yes, we got on rather well.
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Date: 2010-12-14 12:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-14 03:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-14 04:03 pm (UTC)It doesn't sound weird to me at all that you're able to express things in Swedish that you couldn't express in English; dealing with stuff in second language allows you to have certain distance to it, and often distance is exactly what we need in order to be able to do something about certain things. I know I've been able to talk about some things in English before I ever said a thing about them in Finnish, and one sign of my mental health improving was that I was finally able to put my emotions into Finnish as well.
Yay and yay for the high marks!