went to the “new citizenship ceremony” here in uppsala yesterday with my wife and an exchange student/singing-club friend… the ceremony was boring as hell. first off, the invitations were in swedish, english and arabic but once there they actually only spoke swedish so i felt bad for all those who couldn’t speak swedish that well because it was misleading. it took place in uppsala castle which was kinda cool because i’d never been inside there before, but in the end it was just a concrete building with some fancy portraits.

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