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S5 work experience - a look into the future
Not being paid for half a month’s worth of
work - it sounds absurd! Nevertheless, that
is what happens to each S5 student at the
end of the academic year. The idea of this
two week long work experience is to familiarise
yourself with the working lifestyle.
Also, it’s a great opportunity to gain a look
at the career you might want want to pursue
in the future and whether it’s something
you truly enjoy. If this is the case, experience
at a relative place always looks
great on your CV when applying to universities
or work in that field.
It all starts with a blank page. No idea whatsoever
to write, completely confound. But
after what feels like endless days of pondering,
you will finally get an idea. After this
you need to write your CV, another seemingly
hopeless task. However, with the help
of peers and perhaps a few adults, it all
comes together eventually and you’re faced
with a nerve-wrecking wait. Will you get the
place? What if you don’t? When you finally
hear back and you find out you’ve been
accepted, the feeling of euphoria is unbeatable.
I completed the first of my two weeks during
the Easter break, and I must say it was
one of the best things I’ve done yet. I went
to a primary school in Finland, as a primary
school teacher is a path which I most probably
want to follow. During the five days
that I spent in this particular school, I got to
do a whole host of things. I even got to
teach a few (English) classes, which were
clear highlights of the week. I now know for
sure that this is something I want to do in
the future, and I owe it all to this obligatory
task.
All in all, I think that the fact that this assignment
is compulsory is an amazing
thing. If you know what you want to do with
your life, this is a way to ensure your certainty.
And even if you don’t know, this can
be the chance to find out. Trying new things
will open up your eyes to a whole new life
subsequent to school. However, if you didn’t
find a placement that you enjoyed, it’s
okay. After all, we still have our whole lives
ahead of us to figure out what way our journey
will go.´ By Inka Kärnä S5En
WE NEED YOU!
Thanks to everyone who has
contributed to the newspaper
this year. We will be
continuing next year and as
always are looking for contributors.
If you would like to
contribute something or
would like to get involved in
organising and producing
the newspaper, please
speak to Miss Scarratt or
send an email to:
laura.scarratt@esffm.org.
Thanks to the newspaper
team for their hard work on
this issue:
Helena Illes S6En
Katharina Reinhardt S6De
Thibault Hiller S6Fr
Inka Kärnä S5En (Swals)
Emmy Abrahamson is a Swedish author
who was born in 1976. She is partly Polish
but she was raised in Moscow. When she
got older she studied drama in London
and then later she started acting in Amsterdam.
After a while Emmy then returned
to Sweden in 2009 after 10 years.
She looks typically Swedish, blond hair,
blue eyes. She’s a very cheerful and open
person which made the interview with her
very interesting and fun.
Emmy has written three books, “Min
pappa är snäll och min mamma är utlännning”
(this book is translated into German
“Widersrpuch zwecklos oder wie man eine
Polnische mutter uberlebt”) and it took
her 3 months to finish her book, “Only väg
is upp” (a little bit of Swinglish there, “Only
way is up”) and this book took her a year
to finish, and her third book is still being
edited.
Her first book was a bit of a sensitive
subject in her family because most of the
things in the book were based a little bit
on Emmy’s real life when she was younger.
It was a great feeling for her to have
written her very first book but she was sad
at the same time because she couldn’t
share her joy at the moment with her family.
The book wasn’t mentioned for about
Emmy Abrahamson
a year, but now the whole family is laughing
about it.
When asked about what she thought
about Germany she had to think a bit
about for a while and then said now she
has to be a bit diplomatic, but she said
that she rather preferred Austria over
Germany. The word candy pop-ed up in
the interview and she got really excited
and started naming all kinds of Swedish
candy that she loved (which all of you
should seriously try!!!). When Emmy isn’t
writing she really likes to paint copies of
other paintings and of course she loves to
read.
When Emmy was little
she told her dad that she
wanted to become an
author and then her father
asked whether she knew
what to write about. When
she didn’t know what to
answer, her dad advised
her not to become an author.
After that she got
really mad at him (and it
seemed like she still was a
little bit angry at him for
that).
When Emmy lived in
Moscow she went to an international
school and she still has contact with some
of her friends today that she had back
then. She loved her time at school. “It may
sound nerdy, but it really was amazing!”
She told us that she makes a lot of
spelling mistakes in Swedish. So, the reason
why she wrote in Swedish nevertheless
was that it sounds more true to her,
and because it is much harder to get an
English book published.
By Caroline Eriksson S3En and Chris Suomala
S5En