Update. Gustaf moved to Uppsala.

After coming back from the reunion trip, Gustaf settled down in Sweden again. For two months. Then the active young man from the picturesque city of Örebro went to Belarus, “the last dictatorship in Europe”, to participate in a “culture programme”. A month later Gustaf went to another post-Soviet country – beautiful Lithuania. Once again […]

Equipment to Thailand

In March 2007 Gigi Lönn Stråle, SWY4, REN01 with family went to Thailand for a vacation. Before going there, we contacted our “sisterorganisation” of Nippon Maru, SSEAP, and got in contact with an ex-PY who could help us to donate some handicap equipment to children in Thailand. It´s quite easy for us to get this […]

Swedes go to Norway to meet Brazilian

When Luci from SWY18 went to Trondheim, Norway, to participate in a youth conference, there were a couple of hours for reunion, having a coffee and just hanging around. Swedish AA sent two of their tallest members, Patrik and Gustaf, to the capital of Norway, Oslo, to welcome lovely Luci to the Northern part of […]

2,5 months of reunion for Swedish exPY

Swedish exPY Gustaf Rindler, SWY18, couldn’t wait more than seven months after disembarking Nippon Maru to see lovely participants from the ship again. In the beginning of november he started his 2,5 months trip in Tokyo, Japan, where he stayed with JPY:s from SWY18. After a couple of days in the metropol with Hiroyoku ‘Baru’ […]

A new member of the family

Now it’s official since the 6th of May SWYAA-SE (Sweden) is up and running. During a hectic spring weekend in Stockholm our first meeting was held. We discussed the charter of the association and our future tasks within the extensive network that is SWYAA. Of course Sweden’s part taking in SWY18 was a well needed […]

The umbrella dancing queen

Soon after SWY18 we got an, for some of us, unexpected visit by Barbara Diniz from Brazil, aka “The umbrella dancing queen”. I must say that I was more than a little surprised when she all of a sudden turned up at a party in Gothenburg! It is great to know that most of us […]