Glad Påsk - Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to all of you!
Want to know how to celebrate Easter the Swedish way? Follow this link:
Celebrating-the-Swedish-way/Easter/

Please note there will be no pub night at the first Monday of April as the committee will all be away celebration Easter with family and friends.

The committee will meet the following Monday, but no pub night on that Monday either.

An important item on our agenda for the April meeting is actually our pub nights. If you have any suggestions on how to run these please let us know: committee@sweden.org.nz.

SENZ Food and recipe blog

Missed out on the AGM and Charlotte's Semlor? Or maybe you were there and crave more or those lovely Semlor and/or the green feta dip? Don't despair, on popular demand, the Sweden-New Zealand association has set up a food blog to publish the recipes of those dishes that we can't stop raving about after our gatherings. Click on the Swedish chef and he will take you straight to the SENZ food and recipe blog page. If we are lucky we might even be able to publish the winning meatball recipe on the blog... Keep an eye out!

Welcome to the new committee

Thank you to all of you who came along and turned our general AGM into a nice social gathering. I hope you all enjoyed Charlotte's "Selmor".

At the AGM we managed to accept the new rules and elect a new committee. If you have any questions in regards to the rules please contact committee@sweden.org.nz and we will do our best to try to answer them.

Sadly we say goodbye to one of last years committee members, Pia Clarke, who unfortunately due to other commitments are not able to stay in the committee. We will still be able to meet her as she has offered to still help out on our events. Thank you, Pia, for all you effort during the year.

We welcome our new committee for 2010 (If you want to join the committee, we still have 2 more seats available, please contact:committee@sweden.org.nz):

President: Tinni Lindén

Vice President: Kathleen Forsey

Secretary : Joanna Piatek-Dyer

Treasurer :Marita Appelros

Other Committee members:

Eva Sundin

Charlotte Schorling

Carol Wideberg

Katarina Ejerblad

Helen Lahtinen

Renate Ebner

AGM 2010 (with Semlor!!!) - TODAY (22 March 2010)

Please don't forget to come along to todays AGM with Semlor.
And if you haven't done so yet, please read through our new, updated Rules, attached.

Nat Dunning, Honorary Solicitor for SENZ will co-chair the meeting when discussing the amendments made to our Rules.

Please do come along and hear what we have been up to during the year. This is your chance to meet the committee and bring any ideas you may have forward.

There will be drinks and nibbles before the meeting and after the meeting we will have the Swedish delicatessen Semlor!!

Everyone is welcome!

When: 22 March
Time: 7 p.m
Where: Connolly Hall, Guildford Terrace Thorndon Wellington

Going to Napier anyone??

Anyone planning a trip to Napier?

The Swedish school/playgroup, Svenskkul, is wondering if any of our members is going to Napier in the near future? A Swedish family in Napier has very kindly donated some Swedish children's books to us and we would love to have them. Only thing is, the cost of posting the books would be expensive, so we are hoping someone travelling to Napier would be willing to pick up the books for us and bring them back to Wellington?

If you are this person, please contact svenskkul@sweden.org.nz or Eva on: 021-0668612.

Swedish discussion group

Swedish as your second language? Want to meet with other kiwis and practise your Swedish?

As some of you know we used to have a Swedish discussion group for people who already knew some Swedish, but unfortunately the 2 ladies who ran the group got pregnant and moved back to Sweden...

Good news! We have found a new member of SENZ who is willing to start up the discussion group again. Katarina Ejerblad is a very bubbly and friendly person, who moved to New Zealand with her family in October 2009. She will hold the discussion group in her home in Roseneath on Mondays. There will be a small fee involved to cover her time and the material cost.

Please note, Katarina is not a teacher by trade and the discussion group is for people who already know some Swedish.

Want to know more/join? Please contact katarina on: katarina@sweden.org.nz

AGM update, 22 March

As previously mentioned it's time for the annual AGM.
While the committee is busy baking Semlor, can we please urge our members to read through our new, updated Rules. These should have been sent home to all members by now, with the AGM invite, either by email or post. Alternatively, please click on the link in this blog post.

Nat Dunning, Honorary Solicitor for SENZ will co-chair the meeting when discussing the amendments made to our Rules.

Please do come along and hear what we have been up to during the year. This is your chance to meet the committee and bring any ideas you may have forward. Want to join our committee? Please contact tinni@sweden.org.nz
There will be drinks and nibbles before the meeting and after the meeting we will have the Swedish delicatessen Semlor!!

Everyone is welcome!

When: 22 March
Time: 7 p.m
Where: Connolly Hall, Guildford Terrace Thorndon Wellington

Monthly pub nights - cancelled, until further notice

As we have the AGM coming up, the sitting committee has decided to leave the future of the monthly pub nights in the hands of next years committee.

Please note, no pub night in April!

If you want to meet with us and have a chat, a drink and a coffee (with Semla) this month please join us at the AGM, 22 March!