Valborg fest in Kramfors, Sweden

I was so proud of Swedish people to do such ceremony to welcoming spring from place to place in whole of Sweden. I was so curious at the time when my counterpart mentioned about the valborg fest ( fire fest). Yet when I saw the whole ceremony had done was not what I expected to see somewhat. In that fest they had just done few activities such as sing the typical Swedish songs in the chaos and then they started to burn the big pile of wood and took care of it until they had burnt all.

WORK PLACE

My voluntary work placement is at IKF, which is an international women organization in Kramfors, which working closely with Immigrant youth from few countries, namely Afkanistan, Somaly, Iraq, Iran, Molgulia and so on. Because of the economical crisis the major project was adjourned for a while. Moreover, they have to some activities for raising some budget for employing the venue to prolong the office place.

Luckily, NBV which is an organization working closely with the immigrant youth in Kramfors as well. Its purpose is to intergrate immigrant youth with the Swedish youth at some point in the Swedish society. Furthermore, we can work in that place via Vivi-Anne IKF boss introduced me and my partner to Gunilla, NBV boss. Then after we can work there together with the girls to do one project, called Study Circle. It is the project which focuses mostly on the funny activities for the immigrant youth and the Swedish youth so as to create and enjoy with.

STUDY CIRCLE STARTS

On Tuseday 5th of May 2009, our group have conducted the first study cirle with the immigrant youth form Fenix. To be noticed, we are working with both Terro Nova (the immigrant place for the immigrant youth who hold the residence permit to live in Sweden legally) and Fenix ( the immigrantion place for immigrant youth who are in the process of Asylum Seeking so as to get the residence permit in their hand).

About our first study circle it was very fun because there were four girls went to join and made some stuffs all together with us. We thought that it was our first sucess to start with through our abservation, all the girls tended to like our place and any activity. They seemed to be like cooking because they raised some ideas related to cooking Khmer food. They are all very prefer this idea. But today we have not arranged any meat or vegetable to cook. Hence, we chose how to do some jewlleries with bead and string to make some necklects. Everyone did very well with that we were so happy to see them and learnt to do those things either.