minnamaria's VirtualTourist Home Page

Though I can not give you a full answer to that question I'll try to give some more information on myself.

I live in Umea, 650 km north of Stockholm, Sweden. I'm a university student in social work and russian. Right now I'm writing on my diploma thesis in social work, about evalutation in development projects in Russia... My plans later on is to take a PhD in International Social Work.

My big passions are literature, music (I play the piano), languages (I speak swedish, english, french, german and russian), travelling, meeting people and talking with them(imagine all the people you can talk with if you know some languages...), photography, sports (basketball, athletics, skating, skiing), cooking, politics and films.

As you can see on my map there are a lot of white spots there... My ambition is that this map should be blue all over one day... Well, the real ambition is to visit a lot of places and learn about other cultures, other people etc. and be able to share the exprience...

I grew up on an island situated on the coast in the middle part of Sweden. The island, based on the activity of a volcano some million years ago, is sometimes called "Hawaii of the Norrland" (Norrland is the northern part of Sweden). There are around 8.000 inhabitants on Alno. The nature is very beautiful here, with both countryside, beaches, forests, and memories of the industrialisation (there were 19 saw-mills on the island in the beginning of the 20th century).