Last entry my SO and I were enjoying the Sting with the Royal Philharmonic concert... We bopped, clapped, yelled, laughed, sung and danced our way through the concert - as we would have with any other concert we've attended...
The Swedes, well they were sort of a different story - they're a very staid people, not a lot of emotion tends to be expressed in public... And yet, it was a concert - surely a different story, or not...
At one point my SO and I in synch both pointed at the rows and rows of stationery heads in front of us - amazed that no one was moving, not swaying in their seats, not bopping up and down and certainly not out of their seats... And then suddenly in the midst of all the stillness, two heads bopping - we again observed this in the same moment and then went to pieces at the contrast of say a bunch of Aussies at a concert where you are more often in fear for your life from a stray limb flying in your direction from your dancing neighbour!
It was certainly an interesting look at the culture from an unexpected point...
And here finally for those who have been asking a photo from the concert (if I can make it work!)...
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
Observations of Sweden
Last entry my SO and I were enjoying the Sting with the Royal Philharmonic concert... We bopped, clapped, yelled, laughed, sung and danced our way through the concert - as we would have with any other concert we've attended...
The Swedes, well they were sort of a different story - they're a very staid people, not a lot of emotion tends to be expressed in public... And yet, it was a concert - surely a different story, or not...
At one point my SO and I in synch both pointed at the rows and rows of stationery heads in front of us - amazed that no one was moving, not swaying in their seats, not bopping up and down and certainly not out of their seats... And then suddenly in the midst of all the stillness, two heads bopping - we again observed this in the same moment and then went to pieces at the contrast of say a bunch of Aussies at a concert where you are more often in fear for your life from a stray limb flying in your direction from your dancing neighbour!
It was certainly an interesting look at the culture from an unexpected point...
And here finally for those who have been asking a photo from the concert (if I can make it work!)...
The Swedes, well they were sort of a different story - they're a very staid people, not a lot of emotion tends to be expressed in public... And yet, it was a concert - surely a different story, or not...
At one point my SO and I in synch both pointed at the rows and rows of stationery heads in front of us - amazed that no one was moving, not swaying in their seats, not bopping up and down and certainly not out of their seats... And then suddenly in the midst of all the stillness, two heads bopping - we again observed this in the same moment and then went to pieces at the contrast of say a bunch of Aussies at a concert where you are more often in fear for your life from a stray limb flying in your direction from your dancing neighbour!
It was certainly an interesting look at the culture from an unexpected point...
And here finally for those who have been asking a photo from the concert (if I can make it work!)...
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- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2010 at 7:50 AM
Nice to see some pics in your blog and interesting get a sense of the culture/environment is Stolkhom. I would have thought the swedes would be more gregarious!
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Nice to see some pics in your blog and interesting get a sense of the culture/environment is Stolkhom. I would have thought the swedes would be more gregarious!
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Heya Lex, hopefully I'll get around to getting some more photos in there soon! How's Beijing treating you?
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