Immigration Dag!

Hej alla! 

Today was another great day at Sjölunden! We had wonderful weather and interesting classes. Also, everyone is making pretty good progress on their portfolios. 

We had a fun time in mode (fashion) intresse today. We sketched outfits and talked about what we want to do for our Swedish fashion project that's going to be permanently displayed at the ASI. We also watched another Swedish fashion show.

Another interesting thing that happened today was our kvällsprogram. It started this morning at around 7:45, when whistles were blown and we were told to get to breakfast be 8:30, which is what some stugor do already, but Visby usually gets to breakfast a half hour later. The whistles were really startling to sleeping people, but it was a highly effective way to wake us up. Once at the breakfast line, we were split into two groups. One group got to go and have breakfast right away, and  the other group (that I was in) was told to go downstairs to the classrooms. After a long wait, we were ushered into separate classrooms and given a test. After we finished or time ran out, we were allowed up to breakfast. This trend of unfairness continued all day. The people in the discriminated group were told to go to the back of lines, change seats when eating, and they were constantly questioned and asked to show their passports. By the end of the day, many people were on the edge.

During the kvällsprogram, we were split into groups and we talked about what had been going on all day. Some people were more upset by it than others. We talked about discrimination. Discrimination is something you are usually born into. Discriminatory people have been taught that superior line of thinging by their society. People who are discriminated against realize how horrible it is and they know how much it hurts them, but they know there's really nothing they can do about it. I guess the lesson I learned is that everyone needs to try to be an individual and think for themselves and be aware of what's really going on. 

Sweet dreams everyone! 

~ Katja Stenkil:)