Fika

Today, I finally got my classes sorted out and spoke to a professor about my Environmental Science project. He was very helpful and understanding and after we discussed it for a while, another guy who studies in the department was going to take me to see my desk and set up a computer. First, however, we had to have fika. Fika is probably one of the most Swedish things I have seen. It is where you sit with friends or colleagues, or whoever and have a coffee break with cakes and bread and fruit. My department has a large break room with free coffee and everyone in the building seems to go in there at the same time each day for fika. It's such a good representation of the sense of community in Sweden. I think I will suggest it to my department at UWF when I return to the U.S.