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Max Recycled

Last week it snowed in Stockholm. Can you believe it snowed this early? Yep everyone was a twitter about the event and hoping that this isn't the first signs of a very long winter. I'm happy to report that the snow melted quickly and that there are still colored leaves on the trees. So to help this big thaw along, I thought I would still share a moment from our summer on Gotland.

For a treat, I decided to take my 11 year old son to Max. For those of you not from or in Sweden, the best way to describe Max is like the Swedish McDonalds. My son will tell you that it's much much better.

 

 

It wasn't only the food that got his attention but the recycling. In the States, depending on what State you live in, recycling is pretty much a volunteer sort of thing and then it's only some sorts of paper and glass. So for my son to see extensive recycling in a fast food restaurant inspired him to think about encouraging the same changes in our little city in Tennessee.

 
In these bins you put plastic packaging and paper packaging.

 
In these bins you put anything which can be composted and the next one means anything which can be combustible. These are the bins outside the building but inside they have this neat little recycling line starting with dumping the liquid from your cup and moving on from there. "O" kept asking me to go to Max for the entire trip not so much to eat the food but to do the recycling.

All of us here at LearnSweden love to cook and eat, so once in a blue moon it's fun to go to Max, have a Swedish burger, and recycle.

 

Today's Words:

Recycle: återanvänder (verb)

Reuse,recycling: återanvändning

Recycled Paper: återvinna papper

Plastförpackningar: Plastic packaging

Pappersförpackningar: paper Packaging

Kompost: compost

brännbart: combustible

 

Transitions/övergångstid

       
 

I want to thank everyone who has been emailing me asking what is going on and if everything is alright? Things couldn't be better. Per saw his son Johannes get married to the very lovely Anna in September. He has gone back to teaching and is currently moving flat and getting ready for an extended stay in Thailand.

I moved my youngest daughter to Nashville to go to University there. It's been a big transition for her being away from her family. My eldest daughter is finishing up her degree and involved with many exciting projects, one of which is having her very own TV show. It's a very fun time for her. Little "O', my son, spent the summer with me on Gotland and has already made plans to return next summer and my sweet husband took us on a trip to Maine and has been making many fun things from our garden.

 

Recently, Per and I have decided to close down the language portion of LearnSweden. We are going to keep the blog going because we still love everything Swedish and have much to say on that front, plus we have many projects in the works that we can't wait to share with you.

 We are going to change the format a little bit. We will be posting to the blog every Tuesday and Thursday. We will be incorporating Swedish words into and at the end of each post to help those of you who are studying the language.  For those of you who would like to still study Swedish, I can think of no better person than Torbjörn Bergsdal, one of the original founders of LearnSweden. He is a fantastic teacher and completely molds each class to the student(s) he is teaching. I know because I was one of his students for a couple of years. You can find Torbjörn here or here.

I'll be back on Thursday.

Today's Word is: övergångstid or övergangsperiod which are the words of transition or transtion period, transition time, or transition.