Year end reflections Swedish Society

To be quite honest, my involvement with the Swedish Society has only been there so I can help them make money and have a bigger chance to apply for them and have my application favorably looked at.

I can’t say that I worked very hard or that I took on any leading role, but I’ve helped in every activity they had over the year:

On the annual meeting in September, I helped design the Invitation,  grilling hot dogs as well as selling them. At the Christmas Market I helped a lot, selling tickets for the lottery, setting everything up and cleaning after. That was really a tough day. For the Spring lunch, I made invitations, helped pickle the herring as well as setting up in Paradise Lost, where we held the activity. At the May 1 party, I once again helped out with the hot dogs.

I haven’t learned so much from this experience, other than to take orders and solve problems that might arise during the events. However, I’ve had many good times interacting with the Swedish Community in Nairobi and I’ve also taken the opportunity to “sell” my project in Excellent school to newcomers as well as older Swedish expats. This way, I made a lot of new connections and friends. If there is something that I take with me from this experience it’s that opportunities arise when you talk to people. I managed to connect people who knows kenyans producing kikoys and other products to the children for children project (who wants to sell Kenyan things in Sweden to help raise money to Excellent school). I also managed to find two families, adopting children from the Nest, that I could make photo-books for, so that was another good connection made from being active in the Swedish society. Finally, my application for funds to excellent school was accepted, so my hard work really paid off!

I’ll probably help out next year as well, but for now, this project is done. After all, it’s not a lot of hard work, but I enjoy meeting my fellow Swedes and the connections I am able to make. I know, for sure, that I’ll apply for the Swedish Society funds to Excellent school next year again.

My cas proposal form for the Swedish Society

And my evaluation form