Today we got in contact with a few previous exchange students. Frida has a lot of friends that have been exchange students both recently and a few years ago; both in the United States and in other parts of Sweden. So we contact them through Facebook and asked them if we could meet up someday and interview them about their exchange year. But we are aware of that some of them we won’t be able to meet face to face because they live far away from Gothenburg and / or in other countries. With those people we will have a phone-interview instead!

We also contacted a boy, Cesar, from Venezuela that was an exchange student in Sweden a few years ago. It turns out that he has actually been living in Sweden ever since! He only went back to Venezuela to finish high school then he actually moved to Sweden and started to study on a university in Stockholm. Now he has his own apartment there and a part time job besides his studies, and recently got engaged to a Swedish girl. He talks Swedish fluently and still has a lot of contact with the host family he stayed with during his exchange year, as well as his Swedish friends.

 Then we also talked to a girl named Stella from Brazil who spent a year in Sweden living in Frida’s house. Stella understands almost everything in Swedish but she find it a little bit hard to talk Swedish. We totally understand that because Swedish really is extremely difficult!  But the point of talking to Stella wasn’t only to hear her story about her experiences in Sweden, but also to get in contact with a Swedish girl that is an exchange student in Brazil right now and that is living in her house. We want to interview someone that currently is an exchange student, to see what she has to say about her experiences now half way through her year abroad.

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