»Dating is simply practice for divorce.« Pastor Randy stared at me in his office in the middle of our weekly conversation. Behind him was an anti-masturbation poster hanging on the wall that said, »Let go and let God.« Randy was the youth pastor at Grace Church in my small hometown in the southern United States. He served as my mentor and personal guide into manhood, discussing an array of topics that I could never comfortably bring up with my family. Five years later while standing in an Apoteket on Sveavägen holding a pink vibrator in my hand, I wondered to myself what Randy would say to me now. Läs mer >

The clouds started to get thinner and the height began to drop. Anxiety ever increasing, excitement reaching new heights, thrill in full swing and the anticipation knew no bounds.

How it will be? Will it be the same as I have heard? Will I adjust to the new environment? And most importantly, how will an international Pakistani student like me be welcomed?  These were my feelings and thoughts when the pilot of the Boeing 777 announced that we would land at Arlanda Airport, Stockholm in about ten minutes.

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Project China about Project China

Project China presents China Week 2009 28/9-2/19

The guard won’t let him enter the campus of Beijing University, only those with special pass can enter today. Exactly twenty years earlier this was the epicentre of the Tiananmen incident and fearing social instability the government has ordered thousands of guards to patroll the campuses in Beijing. Behind the man stands a group of Swedish students, not only do they lack valid passes, they want to put up posters all over the campus.This could be the plot of the next Mission Impossible movie but using advanced Chinese rhetoric, namedropping and guanxi (contacts) this group succeeded to complete their mission in a manner that would make Tom Cruise jealous. As you should have already guessed, this group of Swedish students was the members of Project China 2009. Läs mer >

And his name is Hernan Martinez. Florence Ferrero has interviewed him to find out where he wants to take the organization the year to come. Läs mer >

One can easily see, walking around in KTH campus that there is a wide number of exchange and international students. Swedish is not always the usual language in DKV (common slang among international students for Drottning Kristinas Väg) as you can hear English, French, Chinese, and more. Why such an impressive amount of foreign students at the university? Why have they chosen Sweden as a host country? And are they happy with their decision? Läs mer >