La vie en Suède et la vie en France sont un peu différentes. Pour commencer, tous les Suédois se tutoient, même les étudiants envers leurs professeurs. Ils appellent même leur professeur par leur prénom. Il s’agit d’une loi décidée il y a environ 40 ans.
Pour trouver un job d’été en Suède, l’âge minimum est de 13 ans, alors qu’il est de 16 ans en France. Cela rend les Suédois plus autonomes que les Français.
En Suède, le petit-déjeuner se compose d’aliments sucrés, comme la confiture, les fruits ou les céréales, et d’aliment salés, comme le jambon et le fromage. Les Suédois considèrent le petit-déjeuner comme le repas le plus important de la journée. C’est pour ça qu’ils mangent beaucoup à ce repas.
In Sweden, a lot of people ride a bicycle to go where they want to go. There are fewer cars but more bicycles, bus, trains…
In Sweden, one tenth of the teenagers are vegetarian or vegan. Their consumption of meat has decreased during these last years. In France, there are way less people that don’t eat meat.
Because the school ends earlier in Sweden than in France, the Swedish eat the dinner at roughly 18.00. But they can also do a Fika: they go to a café between the lunch and the dinner and they eat some cakes. It’s very popular in Sweden and some people do it more than once a day.
The school Polhemskolan is the biggest school of Scandinavia. There are roughly 2500 students. So the people that study here are not all from Lund. Sometimes they have to wake up earlier because they have a longer way to do.
Finally, in Sweden, speaking english is like a second language: they speak english almost everyday with their family or their friends whereas in France, we don’t speak english everyday. If a tourist asks us a question in english we probably won’t understand. But when we ask someone in Sweden, they will really help you even if they don’t know you. They really are helpful