Another thing about spring…

Name: Max Magnusson

Date: 27/4 – 2010

Place: My bed

Another thing about spring is that it is a great time for taking your laptop out and look at some great television!

It’s just too bad i’m sick and have-to pretend it’s sunny in my bed!

Kick starting spring!

Name: Johan Svensson

Place: Amsterdam

Time: ~12pm 25/3-2010

As some of you might know I have been abroad for quite a while. I went to Amsterdam for a weekend in the end of March and after that I went to Abu Dhabi for 2 weeks to visit my uncle. When I arrived in Amsterdam felt something that I hadn’t felt in a long time; spring was in the air. At that time back in Sweden you still had to wear your winter jacket when to go outside, and put on boots not to freeze your feet off. In other words, the weather at home was crap (one might even call it FUBAR).

The first thing I noticed when I stepped off the plane was the sun. Even though we had a beautiful winter back in Sweden with lots of bright white days I still felt like I hadn’t seen the sun in ages! The second thing I noticed was the lack of snow. I don’t know if they ever had snow in Amsterdam this year, but not seeing those ash colored piles of snow on the ground actually made me smile.

So what is spring to me then? I guess it’s that feeling you get that warmer and brighter times are ahead. Even though it might only be a few degrees over 0 you still feel like warmer times are coming. It’s not always easy to see, especially if you are swamped with work and school, but you do get hints. E.g. you might see a little patch of dry (not snow covered) ground just outside your house, or you might see pass by a newsstand with some magazine saying “This year’s spring fashion blablabla”. It’s these small things that make you notice that the cold, dark and overwhelming winter is actually coming to an end, and this is what spring is to me; the promise of better times.

So back to Amsterdam then… I guess I got kind of kick start of spring by going there. The first thing me and my friends did after checking in to the hostel was going downtown, find a pub with outdoor seating, and had a beer. So here’s to spring, here’s to warmer and better times, and here’s to you my friend, with whom I hope to spend many moments just like this one. Cheers!

Thoughts on spring

Name: Thobias Bergström
Place: Stockholm
Date: 21/4

Spring is the dividing line between winter and summer. As such it contains some of the best, as well as some of the worst, from both seasons. Rejuvenation is a word that springs (pun intended) to mind. It is the awakening. Flowers come to life again, trees blossom, etc…

I prefer spring to autumn. There’s still some of the crispness in the air left from the winter, but as summer approaches the air fills with a scent of flowers. When the rain has fallen you can truly sense what spring is all about; the musky smell and cool, but not unpleasant, atmosphere. You feel hopeful.

As I had a full schedule during my visit to China I am writing this, as well as my SED, in retrospect.

What spring means to me

Name: Thérèse Fleetwood

Date of memory: 2009-05-27. Todays date: 2010-04-22

Place of memory: Universitetet. Place: Kårhuset

Event: Vårruset 2009. Todays event: Medieteknik Branschdag.

When I think of spring, one specific memory comes to my mind, Vårruset.

14.000 ladies celebrating spring by running, walking or jogging an optional track arranged by Vårrused. You can either run the longest track, about 10 km or choose to take a 3 km stroll with your pram or walkingsticks.

Last year I was chosen among all of Friskis & Svettis instructors to be a part of the “Uppvärmnings”-team, out job was to warm up all the participants at a number of runs like Vårruset, Lidingöloppet, Blodomloppet or Tjurruset.

The feeling I got when standing on the podium in front of 14.000 people who all were happy, excited and moving in total synchronization was powerful and you realize how much you love being outdoors.

When I think of that day with all that sunlight, laughter and sweat – today’s weather does seem a little bit grey…

Spring våren spring!

For me spring is all about passion and new experiences. New friends from new parties and events. People actually hanging out outside enjoying themselves.

It might be the playfulness in people of Northern Europe, who has been kept indoors for months and months, covered up in thick clothes and hats. When it all finally can come off, oh boy it comes off! Almost like everyone is coming out of hiding and actually dare to talk to random people without a couple of drinks in them. I guess it is just the big difference in appearance and possibility that makes it so noticeable. We finally behave like the rest of the world! Either way, I love it!

Susanna Berggren
Miami 5th of April

DN’s Nyhet

http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/nyheter/nytt-fn-organ-ska-begransa-ditt-internetanvandande-1.1070444

Våren är i framfart och vi ser även detta genom DN’s alltid lika roliga aprilskämt

Kristian Orellana

From the WinterWhite-Coat to springcolor details

Place: Slussen

Date: 30/03/2010

Time: 16.00

Author: Hernan Gil

After an overwhelmingly white winter, with temperatures way under 0 degrees Celsius, the spring finally appears and with it, light, colors, textures and details. The depressing gray-pallet is gone! But, the biggest contribution of the spring is the extra space it offers. We don’t need no longer to be bounded by our apartments or houses, we can be outdoors without tons of clothes and coats and it feels more natural this way. The new playground is full of surprises and the first thing I notice is all the dogshit that had been hiding under or in the snow besides that its just great, people socialize more, the sunglasses appear and Slussen gets crowded with sun-fans. Here you can see the really huge sun-fans, sitting on the dock with ice blocks floating at their feets. It’s hard to explain the feeling and the only thing I can do is to absorb the moment and wish for more off them to come.

Contrasts

Today when I left the lecture and made my way back to the bus i realised that the bus would’nt come for another 16 minutes. I spent about two seconds considering if it was worth the wait or if I should just walk the distance down to Rådmansgatan instead. The decision seemed quite obvious with the sun shining and the recent lecture in mind. Having this freedom greatly contributes to what spring means to me. Being able to do what you want in a sense instead of what you have to.

The contrast of smells has always been a typical sign of that the dark winter is over. Particularly apperent is this when I step outside my front door. The contrast between the often sterile, anonymous indoor smell, and the lush, rich smell of all the plants coming back to life. Also, the contrast between the cold wind and the warm sun on your face. People have a thing for noticing contrasts, especially in music, and this is a fact that composers all over the world have come to realise. Same thing i believe applies to the season and weather. After so many month of gloom and cold we are embracing the change with open arms. The reason why so many look forward to spring so much I like to think of as the chorus of a favourite song you have heard many times, you just have to wait out that crappy verse before the really good part comes.

Erik Markström

29th of march

Alvik, Stockholm

Primavera

Wintertime, alone at the bus, closing my eyes.

The sensation of sunshine on my skin, dreaming of love.

Suddenly, I’m gone, in a new environment, taken by the moment.

The feeling lasts as long as the sun takes to fade behind the clouds and I’m back.

Spring is a time of change, to find new roads to walk, to gather energy, since all is gone from your latest holiday in Spain. Personally, spring holds more for me than i could express with words. It gives me another chance, a chance to better my actions and thoughts.

During the years, an entity has been growing inside, an anxiety that reeks havoc within and feeds of the solitude and darkness of which I’m surrounded.

When the sun breaks through the clouds, she gives joy and life, diminishes the worry and brings hope.

The relatively small change of solar versus earth interaction makes an even greater difference in my body, i feel it from within the stomach and it flows to the limbs as of a fire of lust.

Kristian Orellana
Place: Älta, Sweden
Time: 23:50

Spring brings water, brings fish , brings me

Place: Stockholms Ström

Name: Philip Engström

Springtime is a preparing time for hobbies. People been waiting the hole winter to be able to do what they enjoy doing the most. They live for that hobby and spring reminds them that it’s close. Mine is fly fishing.

Spring fills me with expectations. You don’t just know that the summer and the fishing season is close, you can see it everywhere. At least I can. Snow is melting and water is everywhere.

For me, every moving water turns into a miniature river. It could be on the sidewalk or a flooded ditch , it doesn’t matter, I still try to see where the best places to fish is, if it’s a nice stream or where I think the fish would stand. I can’t help it, it’s an impulse, like some sort of training. That’s the first and mayor feeling spring fills me with.

Waiting for spring

My name: Sebastian Nylén
Time: 19:00
Date: 2010–03–30
Place: A balcony close to odenplan

Spring is a lot of things, but to me, spring it mostly about waiting. Waiting for the weather to become good enough for me to have my meals outside. I really appreciate the spring and summer for the light and warmth that allows me to enjoy the evenings. I just love lighting up the charcoal in the grill and having a good dinner with my friends and a couple of beers while watching the night descend(and NOT freezing my ass off in the process).

Spring for me.

Name: Philip Ulrich

Date: 30/3

Time: 18.00

Place: Hantverkargatan, Stockholm

For me is the spring a very romantic time of the year. It’s a time when you forget cold and troubles and start focusing in what is really good in life. I have chosen this picture as a symbol of how the love and intimate feelings slowly takes form in actions because of the coming heat and the beautiful nature. This picture represent a man and a woman who is in love and for the first time this year can hold each other hands outdoors without wearing gloves. Each day that passes by people wears thinner and cooler clothes. This means that more and more of the peoples form and skin is shown. With this comes more sensual and romantic feelings witch this picture really shows us. For myself I generally feel really happy during the spring, but I also think people around me feels happier. It’s getting light and warmer each day, but I also think that I easier can see people in love on the streets, which for example hold their hands. I am sure this due to its easier being intimate when you haven’t any winter jackets, scarves and gloves. But I’m also sure that if   you show more intimacy you will be more intimate as person. I think it’s wonderful when you finally can walk with your girlfriend holding her hand without getting your fingers frost-bitten. The whole atmosphere in the city becomes in some way lovely and cozy. It wouldn’t surprise me if more people find their true love during spring.

The light at the end of the tunnel

Name: Mikael Juntti

Time: 16:00

Place: Drottninggatan, Stockholm

Once upon a time, when I was a little boy, I felt that spring had arrived when the asphalt started to show itself through the snow, which meant that I finally could start riding my bike again. I should mention that I’m from the northern parts of Sweden, where snow usually covers the streets even in April. If I would have grown up here in Stockholm, I would probably been able to ride my bike all year long (except for this year perhaps?).

Today, there’s no better sign of spring than when the ice that has been covering the water starts to break up and float away. When heavy ice floes collide it’s like music to my ears – a symphony of spring. To me, spring symbolizes the light at the end of the tunnel known as winter. It gets warmer and a whole lot more fun to spend time outdoors. Grass starts to show, the trees start to grow leaves, birds sing and it’s like Mother Nature is reborn. My motivation and energy meters get a pleasant boost and I get a bit high on the positive atmosphere that comes with spring. A wonderful season indeed.

HOPE

Name: Donna Hanafi

Date: 2010-03-30

Time: 17.00

Location: Åhléns City

(The two pictures are taken from Milano last spring and the word hope was taken from the label Hope in Åhléns City.)

Some people might have a new years resolutions, I have spring resolutions. These resolutions include all the typical things, such as start going to the gym, studying harder (try to be more self-disciplined) and in general just trying to be better. But one thing

that differs between me having new year or spring resolutions is that when the new year starts it’s winter outside, which makes it harder to be motivated to actually achieve these things (according to me). New year sets new beginnings, but in my case, spring is a new start, a sign of light at the end of the tunnel, the sun finally arrives. As you may know, the persians has recently had their new year, and they actually celebrate spring as well then, I think Sweden should do that to!

Spring is a sign of hope and when it comes to fashion the spring collections are always amazing and they also are a sign of hope in a way. The spring collections always bring color after a long dark (both outside and dark clothes) winter.
And I actually think that I fall more in love with my boyfriend during spring! I’m more loving (and lovable since I’m easier to spend time with when I’m happy as I am during spring). And the excitement of wearing my spring jacket is awesome! It’s like a heavy burden wearing my winter jacket and when the weather finally allows me to change into my spring jacket, I’m free!

No More Delays

Name:Christian Virtala

Date:30/3-2010

Time: 16:00

Place: On the subway

When you ask someone what they feel or think about spring as a season most answers will be, the sun finally returns or people are so happy. When I think of spring I see it like a new start, just as flowers once again grow after hiding beneath earth and snow all winter we flourish again.

So what do I think of spring? Besides all the usual answers you usually get from asking this kind of question the first thing that comes to me are “finally no more delays taking the train or bus to school and work”. That’s kind of sad really that the first thing is that I’m happy because of someone not any more as easily can screw up train and bus traffic. This is of course making a dramatic change in my lifestyle, in a good way of course, since school and work occupies a lot of my time. Another thing that I really like about spring is that in some way you’re not that rushed catching that bus or train. For some reason you really seem less stressed. The person I interviewed about spring expressed himself using the proverb “seize the day” which pretty much explains how I feel during the spring, people need the opportunity to do just that.

So do I believe there is a difference between people at different times of the year? Well yes I do, it might be just my imagination but people are happier at least when they’re standing waiting for the train that’s for sure.

Spring reflection

Date: 2010-03-30

Place: Södertälje

Name: Sabina Andersson

When I try to remember what symbolized the beginning of spring when I was a child I can only think about one thing, and that was when me and my family went to my grandfathers summer cottage for the first time that year. We sat outside in the sunshine and ate biscuits and drank pear syrup. We maybe went for a walk on muddy paths to a hill with a view.

Today I live a five minutes’ walk away from the cottage so it’s not that special any more. I can take a walk to that hill with a view whenever I want, though I don’t really have the time for that any more. But I like how you notice how nature changes for every season more when you have a garden that you have to look after. I’m looking forward to when I have kids on my own so I can take them on a picnic in the woods and pass on my love to nature.

The contrasts of Spring

Name: Sara Cecilia Lempiäinen

Date: 2010-03-30

Time: 15.40

Place: Borgenvägen

Spring is loud, completely opposite to the winter when it comes to sound.

Spring is about contrast. A blue sky clashes with the gray pavements and muddy fields of grass.

The hard lakes and ponds open up to let through the smooth flow of water that has a life of its own. Soon enough even the murky pavements will break up and bring forth the first tender green shoots from the weeds that so annoyingly survive everything. Everything is the opposite of each other yet breath in some kind of symbiosis.

Spring is refreshing, so refreshing that you feel renewed and ready to own the world once more. It is people taking off their hats and scarfs, and really starting to come out of their shells and showing their face every chance they get rather than hiding  it behind heavy winter clothing.

It is empowering to be hit by the sharp sun rays, and for the short moment that you are almost blinded you feel as though you’ve been lifted into another world where the sounds to your ears and the warmth to your skin feel so strange and surreal.

Your inner child awakens and the flow of energy is drastic and intense, you stop and realize you are suddenly laughing and smiling at things that would annoy the hell out of you just days ago. Everything seems far away and you shrug at the problems you deal with on an every day basis, as long as you are in this moment of serenity and ease, nothing seems to be a bother, and solutions are suddenly much more available.

I believe change makes people more open-minded, and therefore it is easier to develop ideas and creativity, by exploring outside your usual perimeters.

My spring

Fabian Wahlgren

Borggården, KTH

11:30 – 30/3-2010

For me, the concept of spring is very different from year to year and place to place. While I lived in Kiruna, which is quite cold and has a bit different climate, spring always started when the first real rain fell. So far up north, the rain somhow made the plants release all sorts of smells and seeds and such, which really made the air really smell of spring. The only other time I ever got that kind of shock like the one I had one morning in april up in Kiruna after the first rainfall, was from walking out of a small airport in Mexico and stepping, basically directly from a 12 hour trip on a plane, right into the djungle. It was like hitting a wall of moist air, containing basically every smell known to man.

Nowadays, and when I was younger living in southern Sweden, I think the spring starts when I can walk out in the morning in sunglasses and a leather jacket and just enjoy the sunny day. It does not have to be especially warm, just no wind, lots of sun and above freezing.

My balcony in björkahagen

Name: Olle Westerlund

Time: 3pm

Date: March 30, 2010

Theme: Quasimoto – Greenery

Things changes a lot when spring starts to emerge. My taste in music changes. The way I expect my future changes. I want go astro traveling. Smoking on the trees at a hundred degrees. The warmth of the sun makes me want to listen to hip-hop music in my parent’s garden; speakers pointed out through the living room windows. On the other hand, the wait for it, knowing that better times will come and keeping on going for months, is almost as good as actually being there in the summer. In spring you are thankful for just one hour without a cloudy sky, and the first few flowers rising up from the ground seems astonishing. It really feels like ‘less is more’ this time of the year.

I’m sitting on my balcony with sun in my eyes, gangsta rap in my ears, a cup of Arvid Nordquist Pressiado coffee in my hand, a piece of plastic in my pocket, some dust on my shoulder, OS X on my computer, and, I guess, spring in my mind. I haven’t really grasped it yet.

Celebrating spring

Name: Jonatan Dahl

Date: 2010-03-30

Time: 13:30

Place: Strandvägen

First of all, what I think is fascinating about spring is that all of a sudden everyone moves from the inside to the outside of the world. The insides become bad and the outsides good. And you can also no longer believe how you once couldn’t walk out in the open air without covering your body, head and hands with clothing.

But the way I associate spring with celebration relies heavily in personal memories of mine, both childhood and present ones. What’s most striking about celebration in springtime is how people, including me, on the 1st of may gather outside to celebrate. Most young ones doesn’t even know or at the least care about what the festival really stands for. It’s simply a great time to enjoy ourselves. And as well, even if it might not be our true intentions, I think we’re celebrating spring.

When I think about spring, I also always remember the fact that I was born in the springtime, 3rd of may. I easily visualize myself when I was younger and me, my family and friends would celebrate my birthday in our backyard in our old home back then. There were the scent of lilacs and the grandness of a  big willow tree in the garden. There were also red currant that didn’t taste very well.

That’s celebrating spring.

Changes

NAME: Jonathan Bergius

DATE: 2010-03-24

TIME: 1200ish

LOCATION: KTH

Spring…

Spring is like Fridays ok. It’s something you long for because you know it’s the start of the weekend, but not quite.  Cause what we really want is Saturdays, right? And Saturdays are like summer.

If you really think about it, spring itself isn’t that great. I mean, ok we have Mother Nature doing her thing, which is awesome and the beauty of life is just wow, but it feels like spring is just a long transition to summer.

Still, there is something about spring that makes it so good. And it hit me.

What I really like about this season is that it gives you the perspective and contrast of things, even the very small ones. It’s like with everything else, there is this balance and there has to exist bad for the appreciation of good.
Spring brings so many changes and even the slightest of change can make your day.
The temperature of the weather bumps up a few degrees, and BYE BYE winter jacket! HELLO my favorite shoes!

Skiing in the sun

Name: Eva Olsson

Date: 2010-03-30

Location: Two of my best friens in the middle of nowhere in Val Thorens (the picture)

Time: 20:33

For me spring is a really great time. I get happier and get more energy as the most of us up in the north. But I also ski a lot. A lot. And the spring for me means a lot of sun and slushy snow in the slopes and the offpist gets really hard to ride because of all the stones that pop up in the snow when the sun starts to shine. It also means less clothes and no minusdegrees (so you don’t have to freeze your ass of in the ski lift) and a nice goggleburn because the sun gets much more hot and shines stronger so you almost get snowblind when you take your goggles of in the slopes. And that’s something that’s really special for me in the spring, the skiing gets different and sometimesI think it’s the best time of the year. A hot day in the slopes somwhere on a huge mountain.

March 30, 2010

Name: Sofie Sjöstedt

Date: 2010-03-30

Time: 20:00

Location: Lidingö

When I think of spring I think a lot of all the flowers that comes with the season. Where I growed up there was a little wood there I and my grandmother always jused to walk around. The first spring sign was the snowdrops, they were a little bit hard to find under all the leafs from the autumn. Later came the hepatica, they where protected flowers so we could not take them home as other flowers. Last of the spring flowers were the windflowers which did cover all over the ground.

For me this is just one of the amesing sping signs that comes with it. I love it and  I think that we all shall enjoy it as long as it lasts.

Picture: Last years hepaticas.

Practical Spring

Name: Nicklas Holmgren

Date and time: 30/03/2010 – 14:00

Place: KTH campus

The most common aspect of spring that people seem to talk about is how they like when it becomes brighter outside – compared to the dark days of the winter. Though I agree, the winter really doesn’t bother me that much, I like it for what it is. I’m generally happy when spring does come though, because it’s very practical for me. No snow means that I can once again bring out my motorcycle for a new season. This is of course very fun, but apart from enjoying driving – it is also very useful since I don’t own a car.

I work during the weekends and when it’s winter that usually involves over two hours of every day are spent on transportation to and from. Which also means that I have to get up very early to make it in time. When spring comes, and I can just drive my bike, the travel time cuts down to about 40 minutes.

Apart from the practicality I wouldn’t go out of my way to claim that I love spring. For me it’s mostly the transition period from winter to summer. The shorter the spring, the happier I become. Because that means the summer comes more quickly.

Name: Niklas Lind

Date: 2010-03-30

Time: 15:30

Location: Rålis

During the winter discussions began in the group. The group consists of people of different ages, some knew each other since the past, others did not. But all have a common interest. When is it time to put the bare foot in the sand? Rake away the leaves and branches from our rectangular territory that have remained there during the winter as a protective blanket. It’s all about the sun. If the sun just heats at least a short time in the face, before the cold spring wind regain control of our surroundings. Then it may be time. A date is set – the time is more unspecific, people will show up as long as the sun is still visible. Some come on a bike – jump of almost on the fly and then get rid of their shoes. Other may come  by foot and perhaps with their winter coats still buttoned all the way up to his neck. Members greets, long time no see, everything all right? Someone in a thick sweater and a knitted hat picks up a ball and starts to bump it the almost effortlessly into the air. Another person in shorts and long sleeved shirt shouts “ pass the ball” and so the ball goes back and forth between them. More people join and form a ring. The ball goes from person to person, from ten frozen fingers to another ten. All around people strolling by, some stop and consider what they see. The question appears in their subconscious, they try to ignore it, shaking their heads, “No, not yet, it’s too early”. They are wrong, it’s spring now. I feel how my left foot steps onto the sand plan. It’s cold when my foot is pressed down beneath the top layer of sand which the sun actually warmed. One more step and soon all the group members are gathered on the sand plan, the ball still flies between us. The group is divided into two teams and the volleyball net system is in place. – You may begin, someone screams. The game is started!

no sense for symmetry

Name: Hannah Fahd

Time: 18:00

Place: Askrike, Lidingö

It feels as if everything goes round in circles and eventually you’ve dug yourself a hole that is impossible to fill up in some strange kind of way.
A non-physical hunger.

As if you some how search for the rush that keeps the days go by, just to get rid of them when reality fades and disappears. I feel unbalanced and in a constant search for something I never seem to find. Spring feels like a kind of text that creates pieces with depths of what have been very straight lines. Those straight lines that are nothing but meaningless nobodys, they develop and get contours and life lines. It is a kind of rebirth.

The spring characterizes art for me. I always paint a lot during spring, and have this strange habit of always wanting to defect the perfection during spring. Making things incomplete, like never putting an end in a sentence. And I remember particularly when my sister constantly every year wondered why all my paintings were crocked in my bedroom, and I always answered that at this period of time I have no sense for symmetry.

New motivation

Name: Anna Nordlander

Time:  16:20

Place: Vasaparken, Stockholm

I was walking around, trying to get some inspiration for this assignment and then I saw a candy bag on the street. Suddenly I remember what I used to relate to spring.

Before I started my studies at KTH I worked at a company called “Candy King” for 2 years. I can tell you that working at a candy company during Easter are pure pain. The week before Easter is insane, people go totally mental and I can’t understand why, it’s just candy right?

People are actually fighting over spoons and certain candy they want, like their 5 year old kids or the greedy Easter witches care.  I worked from 6 – 22 everyday, trying to deliver enough candy to all my stores. You can keep trying to fill every jar but the freaking tins are never full anyways. When you turn your back to one jar the sneaky costumers are there with a spoon (they probably stole from someone else), filling their candy bag to the max even though it clearly says “MAX 2 KILOS FOR 2:90”.

When the week of agony finally is over you have scars all over your arms like an emo (due the cartoons you’ve been working with the whole week), your nails are destroyed and your hands are aching, moreover you never ever want to see a single bit of candy again (and you’re working at a Candy Company, good job).

Even though you feel like you never want to go outside or to your job again, the spring sun somehow gives you motivation and new strength, and that is what spring means to me – new motivation.

A whole new world…

Name: Jonathan

Date: 2010-03-30

Time: 13:00

Place: Jakobsberg

Spring is special to almost every Swede, including me. But this year it’s extra special, it means much more to me than previous years…well, indirectly me.

Let me explain: Sure, it’s nice with more sun-hours, higher temperature, being able to wear lighter clothes, people smiling etc. But there is a special person in my life to which the arrival of spring makes much more of a difference, my son.

With the spring arriving and the weather becoming much more pleasant and warmer, the ground and soil starts to thaw and all the gravel gets swept up. To us who are grown up this happens every year, and it’s nice, but it does not makes such of a big difference.  To him it means a lot more, it means that he can now go out and properly explore the world by himself, for the first time of his life. He started walking in January, but the snow, ice, hostile weather, his bulky boots, his huge overall, and so on, stopped him from being able to do this outdoors. But now he can, in his new sneakers and sports-jacket, run around and investigate everything for the first time.

He won’t remember this first interaction directly later on in his life, but for me, to get to see this first of a lifetime experience, it’s magical.

But to us, as mentioned, it’s the same thing that happened all the previous years of our life. In his eyes it’s something completely new. Think about it, what if the snow melted and underneath was a whole new world, which you’ve never seen before. Wouldn’t you get excited and curious? That is what I see in his eyes.

So to see him sitting there in the sandbox for the first time, playing with something to us as simple as sand, happier than ever, melts your heart. Just like spring does.

This makes this year’s arrival of spring special to me.

Name: Adam LeCorney

Date: 2010-03-30

Time: 14:45

Place: Uppsala

Spring is my Thursday: the first day of the weekend.  Everything happens from now on. This is when I enter erdetfredag.dk to get a glimpse of the Saturday. Because Saturday is the highlight of the week, as well as summer has to be my most appreciated season.

Spring is everything before anything.

Spring is when I build my expectations on my holiday that is coming up. Who will I meet? What incidents will I witness? And which are all those other questions that will get their most unlikely answers?

Who the hell knows?

Although it is a nice feeling to dream like this, it’s a sneaky trap I easily fall into. While I’m raising my hopes about the future I am lowering the probability of forfilling them.

So spring is the time of the year when my mind goes bananas about what’s going to happen. It’s when common sense goes to war against imagination. Spring is like Thursday. Spring is my weak spot. But, still, I like it.

Contrasts.

Name: Richard Lilja
Date: 2010-03-30
Time: 16.00
Location: Lövsta, Järfälla

Why do birds always sing the loudest at early spring after a long, cold winter?

For me, the spring is all about contrasts. If spring was a personality type, it would be synonymous to “complex and goal orientated”. It’s more of a multilayered process than any other season, including autumn, and its product is the warm carefree summer. Still, what I really love about spring is early spring and all of its contrasts.

Some days ago, a sharp square shadow marked the beginning of spring for me. The sun stood quite high in the sky as I was walking from the subway station towards a friend’s house. Its rays were cast onto an old green “gravel box” standing on the side of the road creating an almost perfect silhouette, and it got me thinking about contrasts and the beauty of it.
                             Right now, the moment when I’m writing this, I’m lying on my back on a perfectly shaped cliff at Lövsta with a notebook leaning on my thighs, a pen in my right hand and the early spring sun warming my whole body. Still, most of the water beneath the cliff is frozen solid and the lack of sounds from sun tanners and cliff jumpers is almost overwhelming. Perhaps the birds aren’t singing so loud after all. Perhaps it’s just the contrast of their beautiful voices towards the aching silence that makes me listen more intensely.

What does spring do to science?

Name: Tove Attoff

Date: 2010-03-30

Time: 17:00

Place: Vasastan, Stockholm

That is a very interesting question.
I have never even reflected upon spring having a special influence on science.

People who have made researches within science during the winter are, perhaps, ready to present the results of their progresses in the spring.
Lots of studies are done indoors whatever season it is. But, of course, there are many researches that must be done outdoors, too. I suppose spring is a perfect time to start with new projects.

The spring, especially the sunshine and warmth, make us happy and give us new energy and strength to keep on working with our projects within science or whatever they are.

Spring is light

Aimar Bergan

When the spring comes it comes with light. The light lifts our spirits and refules our energy.

It makes you remove parts of your clothing in order for it to caress your skin and change it’s colour . But if you are to greedy it will sting you!

I like to watch how the light bounces of an object or how it changes colour during the sun’s path over the skyline. This is the time when my job gets easier and less stressfull day by day! When the natural light is att it’s best it does most of my work for me . I maybe need to make it softer or point it in the right direction but that is a hell of a lott easier , than lighting something from scratch.

Spring is here?

Name: Havva Göcmenoglu

Date: 03-30-2010

Time: 17:15

Place: Alby, Norsborg

I’m a big fan of the spring. Like the most people I love when the dark winter finally is over and the sun comes up and most important, I love the colors. For me every spring is a new experience. I never feel the same things, so spring means a new thing every year. In some point it is a start, for the rest of the year.

This year the winter was so long and I feel like the spring hasn’t come yet. So I eat a lot of candies to make me feel good, and not think so much about the spring, which is not yet here.

But no matter what, there is one thing I always do in spring and that is to dream away. In some way I feel like spring has a power to make you feel like whatever you want to. Even if everything goes wrong I can feel like that is okay, it is spring I have the right to do that. It is something magical about this, which you can only feel in the spring.

Spring for me

Name: Robin Helly
Place: Östberga
Date: 2010-03-30
Time: 13:00

When you, like I do, live at a place where Mother Nature herself shows how she rises again after a long rest you’re probably not always thankful for that, which is quite stupid. I live in the archipelago of Stockholm, fifty kilometre east of the city plus two kilometres straight into the forest. The only shop that exists there is a expensive supermarket, with nothing you really need or are prepared to pay so much for in it, it takes about one to one and a half an hour to come to school (if you’re not in compulsory school) and you’re lucky if you don’t have to wait half an hour for your bus. But, you may call me crazy, I love this when spring comes. Because the air and the temperature is perfect so that you’re not freezing your ass off or you die in a heat stroke. This makes it possible for me to sit down and appreciate what I got (my family, the nature, my studies, my life) and who I am, and the best of all I got all the time and freedom in world to do that. It feels like when the sun comes and the snow melts also my head and thoughts get cleaned, which makes me both relax more and also happier, that little detail I think happens to almost anybody because a lot of people become more relaxed and happy. I also like all the normal spring signs like growing flowers, the days get brighter, singing birds, beautiful butterflies, drone of bumblebees and especially good looking outdoor workers with nice bodies. But what’s a real spring day for me? Well, a real spring day is when I sit in Slussen, waiting for my bus, eating ice-cream in nice temperatures, birds are singing, it smells like sweet spring rain and there comes (way too fast) a great motorbike. This is spring for me.

what I love about spring

Name: Kajsa Hedqvist

Date: 2010-03-30

Time: 5.30 pm

Location: Sickla, Stockholm (On the picture: Tuna Park last spring with a couple of friends)

For me, spring is the best time of the year (not only because of all the presents I get on my birthday in may, I swear). There´s no better feeling than the knowledge that you have two sunny seasons ahead of you. One of the best things about spring is that not only can you get rid of the heavy clothes, but in the same way you also get rid of your heaviest bad thoughts and feelings. I thought about this today on the way to the supermarket, it was very sunny, I was wearing my sunglasses for the first time this year and I really just felt how my problems got smaller and smaller for every glimpse of sun that hit my face.

But when I think about spring the very first thing that comes to mind is the ability to wear thinner and better looking clothes. You don´t have to hide yourself under that thick and heavy winterjacket anymore. Clothes is a big interest for me and in the spring you really get the chance to express yourself  with clothes in a better way, there are less limits than in the winter. For me it comes in steps, first you are able to wear your canvas shoes without freezing your toes of, then you can change into a lighter jacket, you can start to wear sunglasses and so on. Every one of these steps comes with exitement and a big smile on my face, it´s a wonderful feeling really. This is one of the many things I love about spring.

Spring

Name: Roger Sandholm
Time: 15.00
Place: Close by Lilljanskogen

Spring almost always surprises you in great ways compared to winter, summer or fall. If there was no winter season, spring would look and feel unimportant. Summer is the maximum and it can’t be better, spring has that thing of “warming” up to it. Let’s not talk about fall, it’s just a prelude to a cold cold winter. After a long winter, such as the one we gone through, hopefully spring can’t be worse, so I try to focus on the positive sides in everything I do. I remember a spring night a few years ago. I stayed late in school studying and decided to walk all the way from Östra station to Slussen, mostly because I missed my planned subway train. As the night came closer the temperature stayed stable and there was no need for extra clothing. When I reached Gamla Stan there was a late-night soft ice cream shop still open, so I bought an ice cream and continued walking. I can still remember that evening and now, when I think about spring I think about the first warm night with soft ice cream outside. Spring is one positive thing in life besides all the bad to look forward to. I don’t say it’s more special than anything else to look forward to, but it’s at least one thing that won’t fail.

Of course spring might seem like a transition period to even better times (read summer) but it’s filled with change and other people changing to positive things. A feeling that anything is possible or merely more probable to carry out. I don’t know if it’s the sun or the fact that there is a lot more people outside that makes me feel like that.

And the most important thing is to look forward in a positive manner.

Spring i benen.

Name: Honourable Joakim Kalcidis Esq.
Date: 2010-03-30
Location: The walk I did disgruntled from KTH to Karlberg after having missed class.

I walk a lot during spring. They call it poor man transportation but it’s how I define what I thoroughly enjoy with this season. In spring I walk from here to there and back. Loitering with the possibility of getting stuck in this sphinx season – that has a head of sun and a body of snow – is something I do not dare.

I generally tread with my ears in a deep committed relationship to some ol’ ragged headphones. It’s the way I’m comfortable to travel from my home to the uni and way back deh’. Any ear committed to this kind of solitude will be marred. I notice it primarily by the loss of high frequencies and the difficulty of distinguishing words that come cluttered amidst other sounds. Lest we forget also the continuous sinus tone haunting my concentration. Still I find immense joy in that I can distinguish a bubbling bass line. It is my source of joy so I guess I’ll persevere.

When the cracks of summer protrude through the façade of winter I’m walking the seasonal bridge just too busy to watch it happen. I’d rather indulge in the low frequencies from my headphones. This day the laconic toots of humble trombonist Rico Rodriguez guidingly echo through the passage.

Spring is the epitome of my life in fractals. I tread from my alpha to my omega daily until I reach summer – year after year. Thus my life iterates. In a cycle.

As you might have noticed I have not added a photo of myself in the above context. Mainly due to the lack of a camera. Instead I added a scan of a great LP I tend to return to every spring. I’ll let it speak for the lost photo instead. Youtube it!

Do You Still Remember, a December’s Foggy Freeze?

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Time: 18:xx
Place: Teknikringen (I think)
By: Fredrik Göthner
Date: 2010-03-30

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Obviously, when discussing spring, some amount of weather-talk is in order. This was quite clear in most of the interviews. The second thing that was brought up in most of the interviews, however, was some kind of feeling or emotion. People don’t seem to mind talking about feelings with complete strangers, at least not when spring is mentioned.

While reading through some of the interviews from yesterday, I realized that much of what we feel about spring is induced purely by the contrast to the dark winter. This was interesting to me. I have always felt that I don’t value spring quite as much as many others seem too.

Considering this thought, I tried to find a feature completely unique for spring, regarding feeling rather than weather or daylight. What came to my mind was memories. Almost every sign of spring (especially the smell of spring air) brings back an array of random memories from previous years and seasons. No other season has the same ability to bring back a long gone thought or moment like that.

Spring

Name: Victor Bleichner

Date: 2010-03-30

Time: 17:00

Place: Sätra, Stockholm

Finally I can see the life return to nature. Stockholm is changing, slowly going from black and white to color. Not just the nature is changing but people is being revived as well, you can see it on their faces.

I’m looking forward to warmer nights with barbecue and cold beer with my friends, something which I have many fond memories of. Even though it’s still cold this time of year it’s a great way to celebrate spring, there’s always blankets you can use.

But with the spring also comes a stress to accomplish things. The relaxing days and nights watching movies and playing games makes me have a slightly bad conscience but that’s a small price to pay for the wonders of spring.

Do you feel it to?

Name: Christian Croona

Time: 15:15

Place: Högbergsgatan, near Katarina Kyrka on Södermalm

I look below me and see people strolling, stopping, looking like they’re eating the sun. It’s a pretty sight, it makes me genuinely happy to see strangers having a nice time, because most strangers I see looks a bit depressed over about going to work yet another day. That’s not weird at all of course, because common everyday life for most people is quite boring except when it comes to the summer vacation. On the vacation people do what they really want, and I think that’s what spring reminds us about, last summer, and that’s why we get happier.

We get expectations that this summer is going to be fantastic, and expectations are the best, because everything can happen in your mind and those expectations works kind of like a pep-talk for yourself. The extra energy that gives you, or at least it gives me energy, actually I don’t know about you. However, energy and motivation are precious and valuable things and it’s far from every day that I feel motivated and fantastic, but not so surprisingly most of those times are in the spring.

I just want to go out and run “into” the sunset, but I don’t do it, because early in the spring it’s always chilly and that wouldn’t match my expectations very well, actually a bad go at something as, from my point of view, magical would ruin it for all time. So I wait, because as every year the warmth will come, eventually.

Spring

Name: Emilia Adejumo
Date: 2010-03-30
Place: Sitting on my balcony.

Spring means the end of long dark days without sunlight, no more ice-cold days that force you to wear warm clothes.

Spring is when things start to grow. Or that is rather how I define it.  After a white winter the whole world slowly starts to become green. And that means I have to move my herbs into bigger pots so that they can grow. When I sit there filling pots with soil, outside on the balcony, that’s when spring starts. Seeing things grow and become something is what spring to me.

This is spring

Name: Joel Arnkvist

Time: 17.05

Place: Lidingö, Stockholm

For me, spring is a transition between the two periods of the year that I like most -winter and summer. I just want it to be over as quickly as possible really. But I think I wouldn´t appreciate winter and summer so much if spring and autumn weren´t there.

I also think that spring is a time for new beginnings and for things to grow, espesially in the nature but even for me as my birthday is in the spring. Although it´s not so fun anymore, realizing I´m getting one year older every spring. It was more fun being 6 and turn 7 than it was going from 21 to 22. So spring represents growing up for me.

One other thing that I´ve always related to spring, as mentioned in another interview is when the gravel is taken up from the roads. When I was younger that was the time I took out my bicycle that been kept in the garage over winter. Nowadays that´s when I change the winter tires on my car for summer ones. That´s two of the positive changes I get to do in the spring. What´s not so positive in a way I think is when all the snow is melting, because it means I can´t go Snowboarding anymore (at least not in this part of the world). Snowboarding is my biggest interest. In summer I can go wakeboarding instead, but in spring that´s hard to do because the water is still to cold.

All in all I guess I kind of like spring in the way it represents change and that it gets easier to do casual things and spend more time with your friends when you can be outside. Because of that I think people get to socialize and spend more time together in the spiring which makes everyone happier, including me.

Feelings of spring

Name: Jonas Heder
Time: 15:00
Place: Courtyard of KTH

The general feeling of spring to me is the rebirth of life and the beginning of a new positive era. It is the rejuvenation of nature and the manifestation of how all living entities are one. Besides feelings, that of course are tied to memories, spring also makes me recall clear memories from the past. The older these memories are, the more of a combined feeling they become, as they fade, and in turn they define my overall feeling of the word ‘spring’.

One way for me to demonstrate this is from two totally different memories that my mind often recalls when the word ‘spring’ is mentioned. The first memory is from the swedish west coast. My grand parents had an idyllic summer house near the town of Grebbestad. It was red with white trims, and close to it there was a lilac arbor [syrénberså] that every spring blossomed and gave away a wonderful scent [doft]. This memory is one of my first childhood memories.

The second memory that builds up my feeling of spring together with the first is in itself a combination of memories of the early speech-days [skolavslutningar] in school. It is the last day of school and the summer holidays are approaching. Everyone is dressed in nice clothes, eats rolls and drinks strawberry lemonade while the teacher is holding a speech and handles out grades. The blackboard is covered in drawings of flowers. A few hours later, vacations start.

These are among the stronger recalls that I get when hearing the word ‘spring’. They make up the more general meaning of it in my mind. Of course there are a whole lot of other factors that have contributed to its meaning. Later memories also add to it, but in different ways. They do not fundamentally define its meaning in the same powerful way as the earlier memories naturally did, since before them, my mind did not really have a concept of spring yet. A later memory is relatively recent and comes from the Quarnevalen event at KTH in spring of 2008. It is a powerful memory because I met a lot of new friends and had a really enjoyable week. But it is not yet part of my overall concept of spring, as it is still too fresh a memory and thus too separated from the other fundamentally defining memories of the word.

I think that our concept of spring, as all others, changes over time. As we walk the path of life, we collect new memories that constantly evolve our different concepts and associations and create new meanings.

Name: Johan Olsson

Date: March 30th 2010

Time: 15:00

Place: Vasaparken, Stockholm

Spring for me is eagerly awaited. That is when you know that winter is over and summer is coming soon. I wouldn’t say that I don’t like winter, but when it’s winter for a too long time period (like this year), I just get tired of it.

What I like about spring is that it’s getting warmer. You can be outside without having to puting on your whole whardrobe. Right now, I’m sitting in a park with my jacket unbuttoned and got no hat or gloves. You see people walking outside and I’m walking, like instead of taking the bus, more often when it’s spring. Spring is also a great time for running. Even though I didn’t ran much last spring, I’m getting more inspired to do so this spring.

For me, outdoor sports is near connected to spring. I like football and it’s during spring that you can start playing football again after the winter. In middle school me and my friends often played football outside during the breaks. In sweden, the football season starts in spring and ends in fall. That is the opposite way according to most european countries, probably because the winter isn’t so long is the other oountries.

Spring food

Name: Mårten Sundh

Date: 2010-03-30

Time: 15:20

Place: Fyrisån, Uppsala

As my victim for my interview stumbled upon talking about food I’ll try to decribe my thoughts about springtime and food. Spring usually starts with Easter and Easter means eating typical Swedish holiday food. This may lead me into thinking of eather Christmas or Midsummer where the food is the same but thanks to the shining sun outside my window I feel the energy of the light and look forward instead of backwards.
After Easter is over the food I eat tend to get into a more colder diet so to speak. It wouldn’t be a big surprise if my lunchbox contained smoked salmon and potato salad. The feeling of eating your lunch with the sun shining in your face and having no needs of hunting down microwave ovens is undescribable!
Though the person I interviewed thought that springtime was grill time I have to say that bringing out the grill is more of a summer thing. For me, spring is more the first day of the year when you buy an ice cream. Preferably an ice cream called ‘Twister’, former known as ‘Spirello’. That’s definitely spring for me!

Behind my sunglasses

Name: Frida Norling

Time: 15.00

Date:2010-03-30

Place:In the woods of Bergshamra

When you don’t feel stupid or to cool to wear sunglasses, obviously because the arriving of the sun, you know the spring is here. Or when you se pensioners sitting on a bench, just sitting there, watch people walk by all day long and take in all the sunlight, you know the spring is here.

I tried for a long time to define the spring to me, I didn’t find it really. I just think of all emotions and the relief most of us feel., the longing to hang out in a park and grill on a disposable grill with your friends or the first day of the year you can take a beer on an outside café and not freeze to death before the sun goes down.

What’s hidden under the snow…?

Name: José Martin

Date: 30/3/2010

Time: 14.16

Place: Telefonplan

There are a lot of things that I like about spring. Some examples are the sun, the brightness, all the colors and all smells.

But what really makes spring special to me, is that it feels like the light in the dark winter tunnel. Like a feeling that says that everything is going to be alright soon. Like a new beginning, a fresh start and a brighter future coming. I can feel the energy boost from light and I feel even happier.

The melting snow is the best sign telling me that the spring soon is over. At the moment it is only halfway gone, but in time we will see the amazingly green and flowery parks filled with people getting tanned all around Stockholm.

But be aware… As they say in Sweden: ”Det som göms i snö, kommer upp i tö…”

So watch your step now that the snow is melting away and everything that has been hidden shows up!

Springtime

Name: Oscar Karlsson
Time: 13.35
Date: 30-03-10
Place: Midsommarkransen

When the spring is on its uprise I usually tend to think about the upcoming summer. It’s hard for me to define what spring involves when, to me, the spring just flies by and almost acts like a fore play to summer. I have this visision of spring being a part of the summer and not playing the part as its own season. In my point of view they float together as the boundries between them seem to fade away, making a fair comparison between them very hard. Let’s be honest, they are practically the same but with a summer bearing a warmer climate.

I like the spring though. It’s getting warmer and carries a new fresh brease of air. It also arrives with a prefect timing in mars, april right at the moment when you’re starting to get sick of the cold and harsh winter. In a little way, I think it not only affects me physically meaning that I get more energetic and less tired, but it also affects me psychologically. In general, I become a happier person reflecting on the fact that I seem to think I have a little more to live for and why that is, I don’t know but why questioning something that makes me feel better and healthier in both my mind and body. Altough I like the the spring, I feel the urge to confess, as many others, that the summer is my favourite season. As I mentioned earlier the two seasons kind of share the same qualities but then, what seperates them two?

You and me

My view

Name: Emelie Briding
Date: 30/3-10
Time: 14.53
Place: Årstaviken

For me, the absolute start of spring is to hear the seagulls scream. It’s the sound of everything coming to life.
Spring is the start of something new. This year spring represents relief. The snow has been a constant reminder of the sad and shocking thing that happened in January, so its nice to see it is gone even though it won’t change anything.

With spring comes new possibilities and oppurtunities. Spring makes me explore new things and places and I have already started to plan for a vacation in Greece or Croatia.

Before, when I had a dog, spring was the most important season of the year. When spring came, and I could see the gravel and the bare land, it meant that we could go out tracking; feeling our connection and doing what we loved to do. Spend more of our time outside. I could let her go in the woods and she would run and run, never to stop and rest. She would get all muddy, and one time she had a big bloody wound on her foreleg, but she didn’t care, she just loved to be outside running.
Hopefully it won’t be so long before I get another dog to experience the first spring with.

I have been sitting here on the dock thinking about why the weather affects us so much, especially spring. In one way I think it’s weird but when I really think about it it makes sense. When it’s getting warmer you can sit outside for a longer period of time, not worrying about freezing your toes off. For me, there is no better thing spending time outside FEELING the nature. Your mind opens up and there is no better place for clearing your thoughts.

Springtime

Name: Daniel Jonsson

Date: 30/3 2009

Place: Midsommarkransen

After several months of darkness the nordic  spring slowly start showing it’s presence. It’s easy for me to acknowledge the signs of the spring a bit too early, before they are even there maybe. When the temperature rises above 0 degrees and I can for the first time in months feel just the slightest warmth from the sun is when early spring starts for me, even if it may only be late February.

Spring, for me, is partly about waiting for the summer. Knowing that summer is next is one of the things that make spring so great. Not everything about the season is beautiful of course, the snow that’s melting leaves piles of garbage on the streets and before everything turns green it is wet and muddy everywhere. The littered streets eventually gets cleaned up and this for me is a strong sign that summer is approaching.

Spring

Name: Martin Borgman

Date: 2010-03-30

Time: 13:15

If i were to define spring i’d probably say the same things that everyone else would say; Sun, longer days and a general happy feeling. However on a personal level spring has never been that special for me.  The reason for this is that i like the “extreme” seasons of weather, summer and winter. Both autumn and spring are transitional seasons wich means that there is nothing particular that you can do during those seasons. Me for example played a sport named bandy. Bandy is a sport played outside on an icefield as big as a footballfield. That means that when spring came we had to stop training on ice which I didn’t like. I’m not sure what future springs will hold in store but since i don’t play bandy anymore i’m sure that i will appreciate the time when the sun shows it face more often and the heat has returned more than i’ve done before. Most of all spring is the period of wait and anticipation, since the summer is just around the corner.

Happy bench?

Marcus Blom, Karlaplan, 30/3-2010

Happy bench, sad bench, cold bench or warm bench.

This time time of year, you never know. What you do know though is that someday soon, it will be that happy and warm bench you longed for all winter. Spring for me starts when I walk by a bench and suddenly ask myself  -”Hey, wouldnt it be nice to just take a break here?”. The first couple of times it usually is to cold but suddenly, when you least expect it, you find your warm happy bench.

Today I found my happy bench, have you found yours?

The springs theater…

Name: Robin Merken

Date: 300310

Time: 15.35

Place: Observatorielunden, Stockholm

My thoughts:

When I think about spring I would like to divide it in two theatre acts. In the first act the depressive, cold main character is trying to get help from the sun to cure his sickness and starts to get better when he sees the sun from his window, but when he takes the first step out on the streets and realises that the sun is playing a trick on him and feels the cold against his face, the wet shoes and all the dirt which has come up, he is just getting worse and goes back in.

In the pause between the two acts the scene change. The snow-covered parks become just green beautiful crowded parks and the dirty streets become just clean classy streets.

The second act his quite obvious. Not only the scene changes. The character also gets a warm feeling when he takes his step out now. The sun is not playing a trick on him anymore. It really is warm. Now it doesn’t really matter if it rains because everybody knows what beautiful thing sun and rain can do together. The character doesn’t go back now. He continues his trip.

The end.

I’ve got a thing for this spring

Name: Gustaf Lundström

Date: 30/3 – 2010

Time: 15:13

Place: Midsommarkransen

Winter draws it’s last breath before finally melting away. This means you have to tread carefully not to step in anything unpleasant. The radio-stations abandon the hits of the past year and clothing shops struggle to sell as much of last season’s clothes by having massive sales before releasing the latest fashion. Spring is going for a walk with the dog and actually enjoying it, although worrying about the increase of smells distracting her. Another important part of spring is easter, meeting relatives and socializing more in general.

It’s an intense period with lots of planning going on both trying to get work for the summer and plan what to do while not working. It’s more or less the real starting shot of the year, a period when it’s easier to start making changes in life because everything else is going through a natural change. It also becomes impossible to spend a day inside watching TV-series, playing video games or reading a book without feeling a little bit of anxiety and self-loathing. In that sense spring works as a push in the back and a reason to start whatever you’ve been planning earlier during winter. Spring is a season of contrasts in many ways: stress, planning and change versus milder, warmer climate and longer days but there is a balance between these contrasts that somehow seems thought out.

Spring according to me!

Name: Sepehr Amoor Pour

Date: 2010-03-30

Time: 12:43 pm

Place: Borggården at KTH

My inspirational site

To me spring, and indeed

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ll t

he other seasons of the year, is about music. I listen to a lot of music and as a guitar player I come into contact with

many different styles of music. So, I tend to shift my musical preferences somewhat between seasons. While winter is a perfect time of year for more heavy and gloomy tunes that fits with the darkness and cold, spring is a time for joyous mu

sic containing lots of acoustic guitars, major chords and uplifting notes. The perfect example of this kind of music is “Here Comes the Sun” by The Beatles which, ironically, is a celebration of spring approaching after a “long, cold winter”.

Sitting outside and listening to that

kind of music is absolutely magical. I think the reason for this is a combination of warming sunshine, cooling spring breeze and the sound of harmonious music. However, it’s not just the music itself that triggers magical spring feelings; it’s also about the good memories contained in the music. For example, one of my favourite springtime songs is “Bell Bottom Blues” by Derek and the Dominos, which is a rather sad love song characterized by wailing e

lectric guitars and the melancholic singing of Eric Clapton, because it reminds me of my last spr

ing in high school and the good times I had hanging out with my friends back then.

So to recap, spring, to me, is all about good music and the nice memories that they contain.

The spring of springs

Name: Kristoffer Thelenius
Date: 100330
Time: 1405
Location: Observatorielunden, Stockholm

Spring for me is a promise. Its existence hints of a precious summer lurking around the corner. Spring is the appetizer, the tempter; it’s the moist feeling in the air when you want it to rain.

When I think of music that means spring to me, one special song comes to mind. That song is called Sultans of Swing by The Dire Straits. Its starts out soft and smooth and accelerate its expression in the chorus. It doesn’t accelerate to the brink of summer feelings, but just enough to get that promising happy feeling that for me is spring. Out.

Take me somewhere

By: Arvid Gärdeborn

Date: 2010-03-30

Place: On my way

I don´t know if I need to explain what spring is to me, moore than point at this picture.

All the winter she has been in the garage without complaining or beening worried. Just standing there nice and quiet. But as soon the sun is comming back from the dark winter, and the asphalt as been dry she is ready…

Spring is to me when I can touch her again. Spring is to me when I can fire her up and here her sound and smell her smells. When I can lift my right fot and beeing seated on her agen. When she screams from all her four cylinders and take me with her with all her power, when she find the right apex in every curve raise her front tyer up from the ground on the straight road, that is spring for me.

Nothing else is importan

Just me and her.

Freedom!

Name: Alex Bikazzan

Date: 30/3-2010, 15:40

Location: Hallunda, outskirts of Stockholm

During the winter, when I long for the spring, I usually think about all the clothing I can remove when it arrives. No more thick jackets, no caps, no gloves and no more scarfs. The freedom of just being able to put my shoes on and head out is one of the best feelings I know, and it is much associated with spring. This is of course if the weather allows me to, but even though I might have to put on a thin jacket, it’s still much better than dual-layers of clothes and a jacket that make me take up twice as much space on the bus.

The good thing about spring is also that it gets better and better the further it progresses. The very last part of spring where school is ending and summer is knocking on the door is probably one of my favourite times of the year. I think back to middle school and remember the last day of school, when each year my class gathered in the classroom to say our final goodbyes and the teacher finally says: “Okay, I dont think I have anything more to say, have a great summer everyone!”. The feeling I have right after that sentence is hard to describe and the only word I can think of is “Freedom”. And while you might think this is more related to the summer than to spring, I still say that even though it is the last day of spring, it still IS part of the spring experience!

The road I walked to and from school everyday.

Sweet spring

Name: Mikael Kjellnäs

Date: 2010-03-30

Time: 13:00 pm

Place: Nockeby

Every morning seems the same. I wake up, roll out of bed, take a shower and then have some breakfast. But there’s more than meets the eye. If I wake up in the spring and the sun is shining, birds chirping, and I know that there is somewhat warm outside, the morning doesn’t seem the same anymore. It feels more alive, more joyful and giving.
I’m not a very wintery person. Sure I love Christmas and all, but the cold weather is not my cup of tea. One or two months of winter is enough. So after a long fall and even longer (it seems) winter the spring comes along and brightens up my day. I feel happier and want to do more things. If it’s a really nice spring day I want to be outside and do something, whatever it is, just to feel the warm sun on my face and realize that it’s only going to get better because now summer is just around the corner. Also people are often more polite than usual, and are smiling more. If I walk down the street in November and then in April, I notice a big difference, not just that people are smiling more, it’s their body language. It says that everything is wonderful and you shouldn’t have to bother yourself with anything. I guess if you would see me walking down that street I would be one of these people, just happy and not a care in the world.

Spring = Music

Name: Sepehr Amoor Pour

Date: 2010-03-30

Time: 12:43 pm

Place: Borggården at KTH

My location while writing this post

To me spring, and indeed all the other seasons of the year, is about music. I listen to a lot of music and as a guitar player I come into contact with many different styles of music. So, I tend to shift my musical preferences somewhat between seasons. While winter is a perfect time of year for more heavy and gloomy tunes that fits with the darkness and cold, spring is a time for joyous music containing lots of acoustic guitars, major chords and uplifting notes. The perfect example of this kind of music is “Here Comes the Sun” by TheBeatles which, ironically, is a celebration of spring approaching after a “long, cold winter”.

Sitting outside and listening to that kind of music is absolutelymagical. I think the reason for this is a combination of warming sunshine, cooling spring breeze and the sound of harmonious music. However, it’s not just the music itself that triggers magical spring feelings; it’s also about the good memories contained in the music. For example, one of my favourite springtime songs is “Bell Bottom Blues” by Derek and the Dominos, which is a rather sad love song characterized by wailing electric guitars and the melancholic singing of Eric Clapton, because it reminds me of my last spring in high school and the good times I had hanging out with my friends back then.

So to recap, spring, to me, is all about good music and the nice memories that they contain.