Outdoor life and leadership!

This direction is towards you who have a genuine interest of outdoor life. Your personal development through outdoor activites were the demands and challanges increases after your own individuell abilities. The education consists outdoor life in different forms and exists during all the time of the year.
The activites we do are, climb, skii, walk in the mountains and journey iceskating.

Ice Hockey as a specialisation in school

Ice hockey in school

Ice hockey at upper secondary school in Luleå is a specialisation which means that we can practise hockey 2 times a week during school time.

We think that it is good because then we can combine our elite training with our studies at school much better because now the teachers will understand when we are away playing games and stuff like that.

The teachers will take consideration to our sport so they help us when they know that we have missed the school because of the ice hockey.

Right now, this is what we're focusing on:

The largest Forum for Human Rights in the Nordic countries, 13-14th of November 2008.

The main purpose with The Swedish Forum for Human Rights is for the Swedish society to become permeated with respect for human rights. Such an ambitious goal calls for a radical change of attitudes, work procedures, laws and rules; and for non profit organizations, public authorities and companies to be brave enough to prioritize human rights in their daily activities. At the Swedish Forum for Human Rights participants are given the possibility to adopt new thoughts and work procedures needed to implement human rights in practice.

At the moment all students are participating in this forum, listening to lectures and working with questions concerning human rights and the UN convention for human rights. Click on the text above to get to the home page of the forum!

About Luleå

We live in a town called Luleå in the northern part of Sweden. It’s a quite small town, it lives 73 146 people in Luleå. Luleå is 2 110 square kilometres. In the winters we have a lot of snow and it’s dark almost all day long. Many people enjoy go skiing or go snowboarding in the winters. It can be very cold in the winter; sometimes it can be minus 25C. Our summers are quite short but very nice. Then it’s light outside even at the nights. In the summer we have a lot of mosquitoes in the evening. Luleå has a quite small city, the shopping is not very good but it’s the biggest city in the northern part of Sweden. Luleå has the first shopping center in the world, it’s called Shopping. Recently we got a Culture house. It’s very good, you can go to concerts, be in the library or go to the café. Luleå has one of the biggest harbours in whole Sweden. It’s very beautiful in the summers. Luleå have one of the best basketball team in Sweden, Plannja. It’s also very popular to play ice hockey and football in Luleå. I like Luleå quite much but I don’t want to live here for the rest of my life.

Swedish traditions

New year’s Eve

In Sweden the most of the people celebrate New Year’s Eve with one’s families or friends, we eat tasty food and have fun. Many young teenagers drink very much this night and are very drunk. We even like to light fireworks and when the bell call we celebrate it with champagne and says cheers! , One good thing here in Sweden is that you can’t bay fireworks if you’re younger than 18 years old. That’s because many people get hurts. New year in Sweden is the first day in January. The tradition comes from a very old time; it all goes back to Julius Caesar. Julius made the Julian calendar and he decided the New Year should be at January 1.

Another thing many do here is to promise “new years promise” then you decide something you should changes for the next year, for example like loose weight, start practice, stop smoke, stop drinking or get a job and something like that is the usually promise here in Sweden. And every year on this time you can go to the town and look at fireworks if you don’t want to bought your own, because Luleå municipality fix that.


Easter

Easter in Sweden, according a decision that took in a church meeting year 325 decide that Easter invade at the first Sunday after the first full moon after vernal equinox. So every year Easter is on different dates 22 march - 25 April.
Why we in Sweden celebrate Easter is that we symbolize that springtime have come.
The eggs have been the Easter special food we eat and so we painting the eggs. And we write Easter cards and the children gets Easter eggs full with
Candy from the Easter bunny.
And the children dress up to Easter witches and go out and asking for candy.
And we also Easter twigs that we hang feathers in different colors.


Midsummer


In Sweden we celebrate midsummer on the eve of the Friday that occurs between June 19 and June 25. It’s our second most important holiday after Christmas. When we celebrate midsummer we raise a pole that we have dressed with greens and flowers, it’s called maypole. When it’s raised we dance around it and sing, one typical dance is the frog dance. At midsummer, people eat traditional food, like pickled herring and sour cream, much alcohol is also consumed.

From the beginning was midsummer a pagan tradition were they celebrated the arrival of the summer. When Sweden became a Christian country the church tried to tie the celebration of midsummer to the Christian celebration of Saint John the Baptist. But the church didn’t have any success and most of the Swedish people continued to celebrate the popular midsummer.



A work from Sofia Edlund, Michaela Fahleson and Frida Johansson Oja

IKEA

Ikea is a multinational company, the biggest in Sweden. A handsome man named Ingvar Kamprad created it in 1943. The IKEA family is all over the world, its in over 44 countries with about 104000 employees. The company has been a huge success all over the world. During 2006 they made a profit of about 161 billion dollar.

Before the IKEA was started the beautiful and handsome man Ingvar Kamprad sold only pencils, watches, nylonsocks and wallets. At this point the talented entrepreneur Ingvar Kamprad was only 17 years old. Today he is a good-looking-82-year-old man.

The ingenious Ingvar Kamprad was also the creator of the IKEA name, the two first letters “I” and “K” is from his first and last name. The “E” stands for Elmtaryd, the lovely village he was born in. The letter “A” stands for Agunaryd the nearest village next to Elmtaryd.

IKEA has a special way of giving name to its products. The bathroom product gets their name by Swedish lakes and streams. Tables and chairs get manly Swedish names.

The religious Ingvar Kamprad made up nine theses that sums up the “IKEA spirit”
The nine theses by Ingvar:

1. Assortment – our identity
2. IKEA spirit – a strong and living reality
3. Profit gives us resource
4. The reach good results by using simple means
5. The simple ness is a virtue
6. Use a different path
7. Power – important for our success
8. Taking responsibility – A privilege
9. The most is yet unmade. Wonderful feature!

by: Simon H, Emil J, Oskar V, Joakim H

Swedish Crimes

The Swedish police workthe work of the police is only one of the phases in the administration of justice. When someone has fallen victim to a crime and reported this to the police, a whole chain of events is set in motion. If the crime in question is a serious one, the entire legal system will eventually become involved, i.e. the police service, the public prosecution service, one or more courts of law and the prison and probation service. The crime level in Sweden is pretty low compared to for example Finland.In Sweden the most familiar crimes is car theft, personal abuse, shoplifting and robbery. In Finland the crime level is way above the Swedish, but it’s the same familiar crimes.
When you’re at the age of sixteen years old and you are living in Finland you have the right to carry a weapon but in Sweden there is nearly impossible to wear a gun. That’s one of the reasons that the crime level is so high in Finland.
In the big cities in Sweden there is a few neighbourhoods that is dangerous at nighttime.We also have some known gangs in Sweden like Hells Angels and Wolf packs. They run the most of the underground crimes in the big cities, so you don’t want to fuck with them because then you can get yourself in some serious trouble. The chances are not so big that you end up with those gangs.

In Sweden the penalties are not so hard, if you get a life long penalty you will not be in jail your whole life. You will only end up there eight to ten years, which is not much if you have killed some one compared to other countries. We don’t have death penalty either. In general the Swedish prison are in good shape, where you get nice food and even TV in your own cell, its luxury. Sometimes homeless people become crimes just so they get in the luxury of jail.