111: Artifact #4

[Molly Cramer]

One of the coolest things that I've done with my Swedish this year was actually over winter break. Mrs. Andersson asked if I wanted to be Santa for their Christmas festivities-- it was a fun surprise for everyone! Louise helped me write a speech and I had to dress up like Santa and create my own Santa persona. The speech part was fun but I was really nervous... I also had to read poems that they'd written to each other and that was tricky because it's hard to read another language in their short-hand and script-like style. For instance, Swedish has special vowels (Å, Ä, and Ö) and they look really different when written in short-hand than when typed. The two dots on the ä and ö become one straight line but I hadn't realized that before reading the poems over Christmas so it sent me through a loop! The whole ordeal was a great learning experience though. Here is the script I wrote: Jultomten%20Tal.docx