Hej från Sverige! I've been in Jokkmokk now for about a week and a half and have not blogged about it, that's a problem! We are staying at Samernas, a school that focuses on teaching pretty much all aspects of Sami culture. Only about 30 students study here in areas like Sami traditional food, Sami language, reindeer herding, and handicrafts. We live now in the same dorms that the students who study here do. Most of them are our age, being one or two years out of high school, but there are a few older students as well. Before I get into details about what we've been doing here, I should probably let you know a bit more about the Sami. Who are they? I tried looking the word Sami up in my dictionary, only to
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