Skansen is a period village right in Stockholm. In the summer I bet it's pretty neat, if it's not too crowded. In the winter it's a lot of doors with padlocks and empty frozen animal enclosures. Though we got to see a Żubr finally, which was cool, and we saw feeding time for the Great Grey Owls ("Love to eat them mousies, mousies what I love to eat. Bite they little heads off, nibble on they tiny feet").
In the afternoon took a long walk through the city, unsuccessfully seeking the cafe that looks like a medieval dungeon, and spent some time in the national history museum, taking care of some of Frank's quests for history class. A nicely done museum, sadly though they couldn't quite get away from "we have glass cases of tiny objects which we dug out of the ground and have carefully cataloged and wish you to look at."
In Poland, when you say "hi" you say "dzień dobry". After a while I started craving some variety, so I started saying just "hey". In Sweden, when you say "hi", you say "hej", so here I was sounding just like a Swede. Therefore I switched to "howdy". That had the added benefit of them not trying to talk to me in Swedish and forcing me to reply with a blank stare ("jag pratar inte svenska" being beyond my limited capabilities in one weekend). I like "howdy."
Regarding the t-v distinction in Swedish, I found this interesting:
The use of herr ("Mr" or "Sir"), fru ("Mrs" or "Ma'am") or fröken ("Miss") was considered the only acceptable mode of initiating conversation with strangers of unknown occupation, academic title or military rank. The fact that the listener should preferably be referred to in the third person tended to further complicate spoken communication between members of society. In the early 20th century, an unsuccessful attempt was made to replace the insistence on titles with ni (the standard second person plural pronoun)... With the liberalization and radicalization of Swedish society in the 1950s and 1960s, these previously significant distinctions of class became less important and du became the standard. Though the reform was not an act of any centralized political decrees, but rather a sweeping change in social attitudes, it was completed in just a few years from the late 1960s to early 1970s.
(Wikipedia).
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