S for School; S for Sweden - May 11, 2024 My journey to the Cultural Exchange Program.. When I first heard about the Cultural Exchange Program , I was quite against the thought of heading to Sweden, a new country all by myself. Really.. and the mail sat in my inbox until my mother brought it up at the dining table the next night. After a lengthy debate, I announced that I would sleep on it, and conveniently forgot about it for the next couple of days. That weekend, I got onto a call with my older sister, when my mother told her this opportunity had arisen. My sister, who had gone on an exchange program to Germany, got very excited and convinced me that I should go because it would be a brilliant experience. And so I got thinking, making a pros and cons list about Sweden which is when my father told me, “Yeh choro, pehle select toh ho jao, phir decide kar lenge.”, This was a relatively good point. So over the next week, I worked on writing answers for the application form sent by t