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Swedish dating!
1. Meet at a mutual friend's party.
2. Get really, really drunk.
3. Make out. Sex is optional.
4. If you're lucky, you are sober enough to save the other person's telephone number in your mobile, AND to put it under the correct name.
5. Send a text message along the lines of "last night was nice. Shall we have a coffee sometime?".
6. Spend hours analyzing the various ways in which aforementioned text message could be misinterpreted. Get your friends involved.
7. Have a "fika."*
*A "fika" is a Swedish word for an ambiguous meeting that may or may not be a date, or better explained as a non-date, or a date that is pretending-not-to-be-a-date.
8. At the end of this date pretending not to be a date, give each other an awkward hug, or possibly a handshake, ended with the statement, "Vi hörs!" or "Hoppas vi ses snart!"
9. Spend the entire next week pondering over who should make the next move. A WORD OF WARNING: It is not assumed here that the guy will take the lead. More likely, the opposite is expected. If the Swedish guy is brave enough open his mouth and say something at all during this date, he may feel that it is now the girl's turn to put herself out on a limb.
10. Spend many more hours analyzing your feeble attempts at text message"flirting," agonizing over whether you should or should not use the word "mysig" (cozy) or "trevlig" (nice), fearing the former may be too much, and the latter may not be enough. Once again, enlist the help of your friends.
11. Repeat Step 1.
12. Repeat Step 2.
13. Repeat Step 3, all the while pretending it never happened the first time.
14. Go out to dinner. Since it's a little harder to pretend you are not on a real date in the formal atmosphere of a restaurant, drink massive amounts of the house wine.
15. At the end of dinner, closely examine the bill to make sure each person pays for his or her appropriate share, including the extra five kronor for dressing on the side.
16. Move in together and start collecting "vuxenpoäng"!
1. Meet at a mutual friend's party.
2. Get really, really drunk.
3. Make out. Sex is optional.
4. If you're lucky, you are sober enough to save the other person's telephone number in your mobile, AND to put it under the correct name.
5. Send a text message along the lines of "last night was nice. Shall we have a coffee sometime?".
6. Spend hours analyzing the various ways in which aforementioned text message could be misinterpreted. Get your friends involved.
7. Have a "fika."*
*A "fika" is a Swedish word for an ambiguous meeting that may or may not be a date, or better explained as a non-date, or a date that is pretending-not-to-be-a-date.
8. At the end of this date pretending not to be a date, give each other an awkward hug, or possibly a handshake, ended with the statement, "Vi hörs!" or "Hoppas vi ses snart!"
9. Spend the entire next week pondering over who should make the next move. A WORD OF WARNING: It is not assumed here that the guy will take the lead. More likely, the opposite is expected. If the Swedish guy is brave enough open his mouth and say something at all during this date, he may feel that it is now the girl's turn to put herself out on a limb.
10. Spend many more hours analyzing your feeble attempts at text message"flirting," agonizing over whether you should or should not use the word "mysig" (cozy) or "trevlig" (nice), fearing the former may be too much, and the latter may not be enough. Once again, enlist the help of your friends.
11. Repeat Step 1.
12. Repeat Step 2.
13. Repeat Step 3, all the while pretending it never happened the first time.
14. Go out to dinner. Since it's a little harder to pretend you are not on a real date in the formal atmosphere of a restaurant, drink massive amounts of the house wine.
15. At the end of dinner, closely examine the bill to make sure each person pays for his or her appropriate share, including the extra five kronor for dressing on the side.
16. Move in together and start collecting "vuxenpoäng"!
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