Happy Easter - Glad Påsk!

Happy Easter to all of you!

Attached is a picture of some of the lovely Easter Craft (Påskpyssel) made by the Associations fantastic kids.

Want to know how to celebrate Easter the Swedish way? Follow this link: http://www.sweden.se/eng/Home/Lifestyle/Traditions/Celebrating-the-Swedish-way/Easter-in-Sweden/

Glad Påsk!

Easter Decorations, this Sunday 10th April

Calling all Easter Witches!!!

This coming Sunday, the 10th of April, we are planning to have a family fun event and make some Easter "Arts n Crafts" with the kids.

We will meet at Kandallah Community Centre and make Easter Decorations, if time allows we might bake some yummy Easter treats and maybe even have an Egg Hunt!!

When: Sunday 10 April 2011
Time: 10-12
Where: Kandallah Community Centre, 2 Ganges Road, Khandallah
Cost: Gold Coin donation, please note this event is only for members of the Sweden-New Zealand Association.

Would be great is you can send an email to eva@sweden.org.nz or txt 021-0668612, so we know how many kids to cater for. (There will also be coffee for mums & dads, and/or grandparents)

AGM 2011 - introducing the new committee

Thanks to all of you who attended the AGM yesterday. I hope you all enjoyed the Janssons temptation (if you want the recipe please check out our recipe blog).

There has been some changes to the committee this year:
First of all there has been a reshuffle at the top:

• Tinni Linden has moved from the President role into the Secretary Role,
• Joanna Piatek-Dyer has moved from the Secretary Role into the President Role.

We thank Tinni for your years in the president chair, job well done!

Re-elected Committee members:

• Kathleen Forsey (Vice President),
• Marita Appelros (Treasurer),
• Eva Sundin (web and newsletter editor),
• Carol Wideberg,
• Renate Ebner

Sadly we say good bye to a few of last years committee members:

• Charlotte Shörling, who became the mother of Lucas in January (Congratulations and thanks, we will miss you in the committee but hope to see you and your new family member on our events),
• Helen Lahtinen, who unfortunately has commitments elsewhere (Thanks for all your work, hope we can still call on you to help out on our functions),
• Katarina Ejeblad, who left to return to Sweden in November (I hope you are enjoying spring time by now)

New committee members
We are very happy to welcome our new committee members:

• Cherie Udden,
• Barbro Scott,
• Jessica Johansson,
• Uella Watson

I'm sure you can all bring some great ideas and enthusiasm to the association.

We have moved the task of newsletter editor from the Secretary role to the web editors role, so yes, you will be hearing even more from me in the future...More info about the AGM in our next newsletter!

Waffle Day, today 25 March.

Our family and friends in Sweden will all enjoy their waffles today, and so should you - as today, the 25 March, is the National Waffle Day in Sweden.

For a "healthy" egg waffle recipe please check our Food blog (http://senzfood.blogspot.com/)

Waffle Day is a tradition that is celebrated in Sweden, and to a lesser extent elsewhere, on March 25. Waffles are typically eaten on this day. The name comes from Vårfrudagen ("Our Lady's Day"), which in vernacular Swedish sounds almost like Våffeldagen (waffle day). Our Lady's Day is celebrated on March 25 (nine months before Christmas), the Christian holiday of Annunciation, and the Waffle Day is hence celebrated on the same day although it has no religious connections to Our Lady's Day. (source Wikipedia)

AGM and Janssons temptation

The current Committee welcomes all its members and interested to join us for our 46th Annual General Meeting.

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 Janssons Temptation and drinks will be provided.

If you haven't received the agenda yet or have any other queries, please contact Tinni on 04 499 9895 or email tinni@sweden.org.nz

When: 28 March 2011
Time: 7 pm
Where: Connolly Hall, Guildford Terrace (off Hill Street) Thorndon

See you all there!