Welcome to Sweden or my first day in Lund...
Hello to everyone. Today is my first day in Lund, one of the beatiful southern cities of Sweden. Finally I arrived. The trip was a bit long, because of the 1 day delay of our flight from Bishkek-Turkey and to Copenhagen. After long hours waiting in the airport, we started our trip to a place where I am supposed to volunteer for a year. Oh yes, it is a long period.
Gustaf, a president of the organization called Tamam, met me at the train station. We exchanged hugs, and he took me to the house of my future residence. It is already cold in Sweden.
You never believe! The house number in Lund turned out to be 45, the same as in my hometown Osh.
My house lord, a beautiful and kind woman, Ceit, but pronounced as Kate, met me warmly. She showed me my room, which used to be her daughters one.  It is so cosy, with many lamps for reading, and table to study and of course soft bed. By the way, we live 3 members in the house. Ceit, me and Hilda. Hilda is 8 years old dog. She is very friendly and very devoted to Kate.
The apartment is located in a central part of the town, and not very far from the Tamam's house.  I wrote house, because it is more like a house than an office, with all the facilities inside the two storied villa.
I like the starting point so far. I feel I am not going to miss my house any more.... just joking.

Tamam is having 75 volunteers in one day...

Hej, jo khetter Zarina (my name is Zarina). Today Tamam had an introduction training for nearly 75 volunteers. This was their first activity on such a global scale. We had so much fun this day. Early in the morning I and Petter, one of the very active and energiser volunteer, came the first to a meeting place. After all gathered we fitted to two mini vans of Tamam and started to a camp place that is 20 min ride from the town. Everybody had highly raised disposition. When we stopped at the bus stop to greet the participants, they stared at us,because of the spanish music in the car and volunteers dancing and singing very loudly in it.
The day consisted both of the entertainment and practical sessions. At the beginning Tamam leaders gave an introductory information about the organization, it's beneficiaries and a film based on real situation. From the film one can see how difficult is the life of a refugee family in Sweden.
One of the most important things that the training had is the lunch. Every person had to bring something with themselves to eat. You can imagine the table, with plenty of delicious and not so food.
At the middle of the day, several guests from migration office, preparotory school and municipality spoke on the refugees issues. i could notice that students/ volunteers were indeed very interested in that information asking their own questions. That's how I also can explain why people were so anxious about the election results, where one racist party called Swedish Democrats got nearly 6 % of the seats in the parliament. They think it is not good at all, because Democrats speak about pure Swedish nation, without any immigrants coming into the country.
Here I learned a very good word "Fika", that is very close to our coffea breaks. At last we had fika and participants left their feed back...