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This is part 1 of my experiences meeting the strangers in Stockholm who made me feel home in their country.

First in my experiences is my interaction with my colleague and now a very close friend Rebecca Holm. We met during the Intro days at Spotify — an orientation program for new Spotifiers. We were ten mins into our ice-breaking conversation when she asked me if I’d like to join her and her family to mid-summer celebration at one of the islands in archipelago. As someone who had no cultural knowledge about midsummer, I jumped on that.

I celebrated my first midsummer in the company of three generations of Swedish families. Amongst many new experiences, my favorite one was listening to the older women singing the snap songs while taking the shots after shots of aquavit.

Another one was when I asked a guy, who was enjoying eating ice cream with strawberries while sipping coffee, “Why alcohol is an important part of Swedish celebration?” He looked at me like I questioned his existence. After pondering over that question for full 90 seconds, he responds: “I think we want to get drunk and be completely uninhibited, that’s why.” Such a cute answer, I felt like kissing him.

[update]

I have moved back to the US and live in NYC. I am still looking for friends like Rebecca to invite me their mis-summer celebrations somewhere in the upstate.