Good morning from Sweden.
I'm headed to Swedish public school today and I'm a bit terrified to film, but that's good.
I got permission two days ago to go to school with the girl I'm staying with.
I don't think I got permission to film, but I'm gonna try to anyways.
I'm excited.
A little nervous.
Always feels nerve-wracking to bring a big camera into the school.
I think it's very weird, but that's the thing I always look at in the morning.
You can see how warm it is in every country.
You're having a nice time.
Thank you.
The long walk.
Actually, we're not going to like my school building now.
We're going to another building because math is a class that i have with other persons there.
Okay, like a few that's from another school.
Oh really yeah, and my teacher is as well from another school, so we can choose like four courses.
Yeah, and i chose math, english and psychology, so we're going to that white building.
You see a few of them Campus Storken.
Campus Storken.
Storken.
Hello.
Hi, how are you?
I'm good, how are you?
I'm good, how are you?
Eh, Lovisa.
It's too much to film, so I'll just say... Welcome.
Thank you.
It's not so good.
That's okay.
Welcome to this lesson.
Thank you, thank you.
Oh, you have to order more things.
That's good.
It's for the mother.
Are you used to the same number?
C times 451.
So what program are you guys in?
Are you all in the same program?
Yeah, natural science.
And you do, like, what job do you want from this program?
Like, engineer.
We have to go to university, basically.
To get a job.
And then we have, like, basically the SATs.
So is it, like, very competitive to get into college here?
Some are very competitive, like you need Street Ace or Ace the SATs.
But I don't think our application works quite the same way.
Like you write to the colleges and write a big essay.
Yeah, a bunch of them.
But we just, here are our grades, here is the SAT.
You don't write anything about yourself?
No, no, no, no.
It's just, here are my stats and the good stats you're in.
Really?
So you guys are just numbers?
Yeah, exactly.
Do you like that?
Yes.
You do?
You prefer to just be a number?
Yeah.
Because it makes it easier?
Yeah.
Kind of like that, yeah.
And it's not like, oh, what did the person deciding who gets in be like?
It's like, either you're good enough or not good enough.
That's fair.
Nothing in between.
I hope you enjoyed the lesson.
Max, I hope you enjoyed the lesson.
Yes, thank you, thank you.
And I wish you all a good day.
Thank you.
You can follow me.
Oh, to the coffee?
I follow you.
Perfect.
Two seconds.
You know, this is the only privilege for us teachers.
There is free coffee for free.
It's a privilege.
Yeah, come here.
You must taste Swedish coffee from the machine.
Yeah.
And sweet.
So nice to see you, Max.
Yeah, great.
Thank you for letting me come to your class.
I appreciate it.
Thank you.
And where should I return this?
Everywhere.
Okay.
Okay.
Thank you.
Dude.
You know, I spoke to you yesterday about, like, the countdown.
Yeah.
Like, here we have, like, a poster of our class.
How many days?
How many days?
78 days.
Until we... Until we... Slay queen?
Slay queen.
Is that your principle?
Yeah, that's very funny.
When we graduate, you guys have, like, these hats.
Yeah.
Our hats look like this.
Really?
Yeah.
But it doesn't say slay queen.
Okay.
It says our names.
So mine is going to say, like, Hannah Folsom.
Okay.
So that's great.
Someone in his pocket?
It's Robert Pattinson.
I'm like scared for this class.
Because you said she could be like in a bad mood.
Yeah, really bad mood.
She suffers from mood swings.
Oh no.
You guys have lockers?
Yeah, we do have lockers.
Here's mine.
This is like the top one legend at school.
Hello, nice to meet you.
Why is he a legend?
Yeah, why am I a legend?
Because he's a satanist.
A satanist, yeah.
You just have to spend some time with him and you'll understand.
Okay.
You should film her some when she's not talking because she does like funny face expressions.
You know Donald Trump when he's like... Yeah, yeah.
She does that.
Are you guys in the same class?
Yeah, unfortunately.
Yeah, she thinks that, but... we're going to meet the scary teacher scary teacher but she's kind she's she's kind What are we doing today?
It's like a stamina.
We're reading our pulse.
Okay.
Okay.
Every word.
Every word.
So the purpose of the elaboration is to measure our pulse under different circumstances and see if we can find any differences.
We're reading our paper.
We're going, like, we're going outside and we're going to do some activities at school.
It's a thumbnail.
Make like a little example.
Swedish exercise.
Swedish exercise.
Three, two, one, go.
It's a Spanish movie.
One, go.
I don't think it makes sense.
It makes sense.
Thank you, lunch time.
Lunch time today we serve rice with curry.
Yeah yeah, how long is lunch?
Uh, like today, we quit after this lesson, so we have like a very long lunch, but i think the cafeteria closes.
Yeah yeah, around 50.
Usually we have a 15 minute like lunch break.
Yeah, lunch break, but because now we have no more lessons today, so we can eat as long as.
Yeah, but cafeteria is closing at like one.
Yeah okay, Nice to meet you.
There's vegetarian food if you want.
It's red curry book.
What's this?
It's called book.
I don't know.
It's like Asian.
Oh, wok.
Wok.
Oh sorry!
So today we're serving kyckling med kyck.
Serving it with fizz.
What does that mean?
Kyck with fart?
Yeah.
It's like, every few years they change the letters.
It should be curry.
But kyck means dick.
So they think it's funny.
Same with rice.
They, like, erase this.
It says fizz.
That means fart.
Oh.
So, it's very material.
Okay.
A little bit, I think, right?
Not in English.
Yeah.
So everyone brings lunch from home.
It's good.
Good?
It's good.
For free?
For free.
That's crazy.
Everything tastes better when it's free.
Do you like the school lunch here?
Like, is it normally really good?
Yeah.
It's normally, sometimes, it could be awful.
It could be.
But that's not very often.
It's very good.
We're up together.
Okay.
Really?
Is he a nice guy?
No, he's not nice.
He's not nice.
You don't think he's nice?
I think it's okay.
Do you think he's nice?
Yeah, of course.
Okay, so she's biased.
No, but he's nice.
We have like a study center where specific teachers can help us with our homework.
I can get some help with my Swedish.
Or if you're not normal, you can go to, like, Ludel.
Okay.
Leg sock.
Nice.
Thank you.
I don't think I can do that.
That might be it for me.
That's hard.
I just don't even know what to do with my mouth to make these sounds.
They just don't exist.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Is this like a Swedish card game?
Yeah.
What's it called?
It's called Pankabaver.
Yeah, but I call it Pankabaver.
Pankabaver.
Yeah.
Pankabaver.
And I will take out your ring as well.
Well, get a divorce.
Oh!
Sorry.
Oh, haha!
Yeah!
How does it feel to be out?
Good.
I didn't expect much.
Yeah, we're gonna ask if we can go and see the snake.
We got snake approval?
Yeah, snake approval.
They're crazy.
And we love her.
Come.
I don't really like snakes.
Oh, really cute.
And then there were two.
So this is the end of your school day.
This is the end.
Just walking through the store and home and sleep.
Wow, is that so?
That's not part of the school?
No, it's not.
I don't know what it is like.
It's like something in an airport.
Yeah, i have no idea.
I would really like to go up there.
Yeah, it'd be fun.
All right, last night in sweden, how do you feel?
I feel happy but sad at the same time, but like good, like i don't feel burnt out.
I feel like every second like oh, What did you think of school today?
Did you like it?
It just felt fun to be around other kids my age in a social setting, like in school.
I forgot what that felt like.
Everyone was just nice, you know?
As they said, I think it's not very common that you meet anyone that's American.
I don't think a lot of Americans travel to Sweden.
Is this a classic Swedish meal?
Yeah, exactly.
It's all in Swedish.
No idea.
I guess you will be... You say you want to go to university.
I think you will.
At the same time, i think you won't really.
Yeah, i just feel like people have to learn to like live in the present and to be like yeah, everything's gonna be okay.
Yeah, like if i didn't have time to study for that test well, whatever it's meant to be.
Yeah, it's supposed to be like study the other day if you don't have time, then like yeah, maybe you will get a like a real bad result or anything, but Like whatever.
We're here for a reason, so there's no one else here.
We're just like.
We have it open to ourselves.
Thank you.
In this moment, I felt like a child again.
I felt like it was okay to let loose, to be silly, to be goofy, to laugh and to let myself feel at ease.
How often do we play for the sake of playing?
How often do we not only act like children but feel like children again?
As I grow up and as we all grow up, we're faced with a growing number of responsibilities, and while on the one hand it's a beautiful opportunity, on the other, we can easily lose touch with who we are.
I have to remind myself to find moments like these in which I can let loose and feel like a child again, because it's in these moments that we feel truly like ourselves.
Our childhood spirits are free from the traps of insecurity, doubt, and self-criticism.
And in this moment, I felt free.
You wanna turn the lights off?
Sure.
I think we have to hide while it's light because it's extremely dark.
You have a timer or something?
I'll count in my head.
Okay, okay.
And then you just flip that.
All right, sounds good.
Good luck.
This single moment is probably the most random moment in my entire life.
I'm in a small not small, but like a random town in Sweden, playing hide and seek with these girls I just met today in a gymnasium at like 10 o'clock at night in the dark.
I'm playing hide and seek.
No way, no way.
That was really wow okay, wow.
Have you ever slept Bye?
It was so fun to meet you.
Very fun.
I will catch up on your Instagram and everything.
Goodbye, thank you.
Oh, that's good luck.
No!
I guess you're fine unless you, like, get a cat.
Old Margarita doesn't dream of money.
Old Margarita sees no rainy days.
Old Margarita thought that I was funny.
Why do you cling to all the things that change?
She said La la la la la la la La la la la la la la La la la la la, la la.
Oh, Margarita doesn't read the news.
Oh, Margarita's easily amused.
Is Margarita getting tired of me?
I can tell.
Why do I cling to all the things I see?
I say, dear Margarita, won't you show me how?
You all right?
Yeah.
Hi.
You got everything?
Yeah.
Cheers.
I'm sure I'll see you too.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Good long trip.
Feels quite good to be home.
I'm going to take a very long shower, listen to some John Mayer, and that was a really good month.
I'm feeling very fulfilled.
I made a great place, so couldn't ask for much more right now.
