Hi class,

My Name is Madelene, and I am a transfer student from Santa Barbara City College (and an international student from Sweden).  I am a communication major, and am lucky to have an awesome internship experience at ChicExecs PR department, a company run by ONLY women - Gilrpower!!!

During my free time I love to practice Yoga, go to the beach, hike, and go to Happy Hour for Margaritas, and explore new places :D  

Future goals: To become better at surfing and pay more attention to riding the wave than fighting for my life every time I get hit my by (what I consider) a big wave. 

Things I dislike: waking up early in the morning, morning classes, spiders and angry people. 

One of my absolutely favorite things to do is travel! I was super duper over Scholl when I graduated Gymnasium in Sweden (kind of, sort of like a mix High School & College), and took about three years off from school to just explore cool places and countries. I believe that people grow and get a better perspective of life when visiting other cultures and countries.  Therefore my blog will be a travel blog about Sweden.  I assume that most of you have not been to Sweden, so this will be your guide for both summer and winter seasons.  I will also include some fun facts about swedes that is actually pretty spot on!

Hopefully this will make you want to explore my home country, if not, you at least know where you don't want to go.

 

 

One of the cool things about Sweden is that we have so many old castles from far back.  This is a fortess located on Martrand which is a tiny little island close to the second largest city in Sweden: Göteborg.  This place is super cool to visit and I've been there myself multiple times.  It was built in the 1600 something to protect they new province from attacs etc.  During this time Sweden got many attacs from Norway and Denmark.

 

The fortess is huge, and if you visit this place you actually get to walk around everywhere and see what it looks like from the inside, on top of it etc.  And the best thing is that you don't need a guide, your're actually allowed to walk around by yourself.  Last time I was therre it was barely any people there which felt super cool and a little creapy at the same time.  

 

The fortess became a prison at some point, and as you walk around you can walk in to the different prison cells, and read about old prisoners who used to lived there.  It was considered even worde than death to arrive to Marstrands prison, as they lived in the dark cells and worked all day long to carry heavy stones.  Reasons for going to this prison could be as simple things as: Steeling a silver spoon, stealing a fruit or just by being poor. We are talking about the years around 1700-1800.

 

You should check it out, realy cool place to visit and it's super old!