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Maryalice Knecht, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. James Knecht,
Dallas, is the only one of the
Dallas Rotary Club foreign ex-
change students who did not
‘finish at Westmoreland High
School. Maryalice is taking her
senior year work at Simrisham,
~ ‘Sweden. Since arriving there,
-%) she has had a trip to Milon,
“ Italy, and has been entertained
| ‘by the Simrishman Rotary Club,
which has taken her under its
| ‘wing and is giving her as varied
[an experience as possible dur-.
ing her year in Sweden.
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| August 12 and 13.
There was a
i Saturday night and Sunday.
very much like a small town fair at
| home with the usual concession |
‘stands and a few ‘rides. There were
| bands which played each night for
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carnival in town
It was
dancing. On Saturday night Eva
Davidson was crowned queen of the
Carnival and everything got under
way... Sunday afternoon was the
Carnival parade in which half “of
“us Davidsons” participated— in-
cluding me! Eva, of course, rode
around in a carriage decorated with
flowers. Barbro and Helena were
“Trolls”* along with about half ‘a
dozen other little children. They
wore burlap ‘bags with bright
patches and rope tails. Barbro wore
a yellow wig with braids that stuck
straight out and Helena had her
‘hair all messed up and their faces
were painted. They were really cute.
I played a nut! (I know what you
are going to say—type Casting!)
wfctually I was a member of this
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the float staring at a big cardboard
TV set. (with a man inside it im-
personating a Swedish star) and
doing silly things like pouring coffee
on the rest of the family instead
of in the cups, and ‘‘eating’” saucers
when I reached for a pastry and all
the time staring at the TV set. There
were quite a few floats in the |:
parade, some representing television
programs like “Bonanza,” and some
of Swedish things. It was quite
different from the parades I have
been in with the Keyettes.
“Trolls” are from Scandinavian folk-
lore. They are a race of super-
natural beings, sometimes giants,
sometimes dwarfs, sometimes good,
sometimes evil. Many Swedish peo-
ple have small carved trolls for
keepsakes, much as we have figu-
rines of china.
August 26
Saturday morning Eva and I got
up at 6 A. M. and Wendell took us
to Kristianstad where we got a
plane to Stockholm. It was really
a neat plane although it was not
very big. I took some pictures from
it and I hope they turn out because
the scenery is so beautiful with
many lakes and forests. We got to |
Stockholm about 9:30 A. M. and
went to Eva's Grandmother's where |
we stayed. We took the trolley. to
the downtown area and did some
sightseeing. What a beautiful city! |
Almost every street has trees and it
is the cleanest. city I have ever seen.
The Palace and Parliament buildings
are very impressive. There is a big
park not far from the center of
things where they have all sorts
of old, old houses and buildings
from long ago. There is a sweet
little Church there and while we
were there a couple were married.
All the attendants were in native
costume. 1 hope the pictures of it
turn out so you can see how color-
ful it was.
We spent at least two hours in
the Nordic Museum and we only saw
about half of the things displayed |
there. There was so much historical
stuff there, many of the things dat-
ing from the time of Gustavus Adol-
phus and the Thirty Years Wars.
There was also a section containing
toys and doll houses that were very
old, It is a very interesting place to
see. ;
Saturday night we went to the
Royal Opera and saw “Carmen.” | It
was quite impressive but Swedish
seen is harder to understand than
Swedish spoken.
Sunday we took" an hour long
boatride around the canals and saw
the American and British embassies,
Ingrid Bergman's former home, the
first automatic lighthouse in the |
world and many other things.
September 10
Marianne, Helena, Barbro and I
got up at 5:00 A. M. to catch a
train for Stockholm. We arrived
in Stockholm about 1:20 P. M. Tt |
was a beautiful trip by train and I
got a closer view of the lakes this
time. - We came to celebrate Uncle
Erik’s 60th birthday. He is Papa
Davidson’s brother-in-law. (Mr. and
Mrs. Davidson want me to call them |
Mama and Papa, so I am using it |
in my letters to keep in practice.) |
Over a hundred people came to,
wish Uncle Erik a happy birthday, |
and forty- eight bouquets were sent |
to him in addition to the ones |
which people brought in with them.
There were twelve of us for dinner |
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Although we would probably have
enjoyed hamburgers at the Ranch
Wagon almost as much, it is fun to
say you have eaten:
Caviar hors d’ oeuvres
Turtle soup
Squab
Pate de foie Gras
Tossed Salad
Ice Cream
Sunday afternoon we toured
around the “old” town—a really
quaint section with tiny, tiny streets
and old, old houses built very close
together. There are lots of funny
little shops and many of the artists
live in this section. :
Monday Marianne and I went
shopping at a beautiful department
store, very modern and so many
lovely things to buy!
September 18
This morning (my Birthday) I
received presents from everyone in
the family and dinner tonight will
be my choice of food. This is one
of the birthday privileges and I re-
quested that we have Wiener
Schnitzel, it is delicious.
After school some friends brought
me flowers and we sampled my
birthday cake. It was a huge round
one with pale green icing “under
which were two layers of cake
separated by whipped cream _and
jelly “yum.” My name, two pink
rosebuds and seventeen pink and
green candles completed the decora-
tions.
About 8:30 P. M. Mu. and Mrs.
Gidlund and the President of the
Rotaryklubb came down. The pres-
ident presented me with a lovely. |.
travel clock and an envelope with |
100 krona in it, and the Gidlunds
gave me a beautiful ring. .I had
such a wonderful birthday, did you
ever hear of anyone so lucky as I
am? I do hope you will be able to
meet Karin Gidlund while she ‘is in
Clarks Summit as an exchange stu-
dent. Her parents are just wonder-
ful to me.
September 25
‘We got back from Italy about
noon today. I will start at the
beginning of the trip and tell you
about it.
Thursday night we got the
“Malmo” Copenhagen plane. The
airport at Copenhagen is ultra-
modern, After an hour lay over
there we got aboard a DC 7 for
Milan, this was about 10:30 P. M.
We were to land in Milan about
2:00 A. M. but one of the engines
wasn't working right so we stopped
at Zurich, Switzerland about 2:15
A. M. and we stayed there about
an hour and a half. We started off
again in a Caravelle and finally
arrived in Milan. = After customs
and getting settled at the hotel it
was 5:45 and we had to get up at
7:30 to get the train for Pisa. We
traveled by way of Bologna and
Florence and !there are the most
gorgeous mountains and scenery in
that region. From Florence to Pisa
the land is rather flat. Italy is
really hot,about 76 to 85 and very
humid. We stayed at a nice but
old fashioned hotel I right in the
center of town on the bank of the
Arno River.
cluded first of all spaghetti and then
meat and potatoes (easily two meals
here in Sweden or at home) we met
some of the exchange students.
There were representatives from
Italy, France, Belgium,
Holland, Austria, Switzerland and
Germany. There were also adults
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_THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1961
] | Maryalice Knecht Hears Of Swedish Trolls,
Flits From Simrisham to Italy, Back Again
TV-crazy family and I sat there on
from each of these countries and
also from Sweden, Finland, Den-
mark and Portugal. We had some
interesting discussions. In the late
afternoon (Saturday) we visited the
Baptistry, the Cathedral, the Ceme-
tery and, of course the famous
Leaning Tower. These four are all
on the one square. 'We climbed the
tower right to the very absolute top
at sunset and I took some pictures
which should be fabulous.
Early Sunday morning we took
our bus to Lucca which is up in the
mountains and very beautiful. I
never saw so many (Churches in
such a small place. There was a
wedding at one of the Churches
while we were there. All the people
were dressed in black just like at a
funeral, and all the time the priest
was talking a photographer was
moving around inside the rail
taking pictures.
Some of the group went to the
seashore for a swim but we could
not go because we had to catch a
train for Milan. It was cloudy the |
next morning at six AM. when we |
took off from Milan but we climbed
above the clouds and it was beauti- |
ful. The Alps were a breathtaking |
sight from the plane, and the vil-
lages look just like clusters of doll |
houses.
We got very little sleep on our
trip, and we ate too much, but it
was a very interesting. and unfor- |
getable experience. I never expected
to get to Italy, it was really more
than 1 could have hoped for. I have
already. seen so much and the year |
is just beginning for me.
I have been having a wonderful
time since July. Our boat trip
abroad the Q.S.S. Arkadia gave us
the opportunity to meet many new
and interesting people. Although
the weather was cold and the sea
choppy, we survived quite well.
Sleep was an unheard of item but
we had lots of fun losing it.
In Amsterdam 1 stayed overnight
with Joan Mumford (an exchange |
student from Scranton) and her |
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Von Enst. Their home in a |
very charming Dutch hosts, Dr.
Mrs.
tiny suburb called Loenen on the |
Vecht was built in the year 1620 |
and it is extremely beautiful.
‘The next day Dr. Von Enst |
showed: us Utrecht and part of |
Amsterdam’ before putting me on
the night train to Copenhagen. I |
was met in ‘Copenhagen by Mrs.
Davidson, my new “Mother”,
Malmo” and Sweden.’
From Malmo” to Simrishamn
Skane, the southernmost : province
of Sweden. This is a wealthy farm-
ing region and ‘the U-shaped one-
story buildings which combine hoth
house ‘and barn are very pictur-
esque. © Skane is ‘a rather {lat
country; even the largest hill in the
province would make a poor show-
ing next to Pennsylvania’s beautiful
hills and mountains.
Simrishamn is lovely. We are
right on the Baltic Sea and the
harbor and fishing fleet would tempt
any artist. Fishing is an industry
here and Simrishamn ranks ‘third in
Sweden in size of the catch. The
population is a little less than that
of Dallas, but the town seems larger
at first glance because it is more
centralized, there are no country
residential sections like Shrine Acres
or New Goss Manor.
‘The Davidson home is about four
blocks: from ‘the central = square
around which is the main business
and shopping district. Dominating
the square is the beautiful twelfth-
century Church . of (St. Nikolais,
patron of the sailors. - The only
Church in town, ‘it is Lutheran, the
‘state religion of Sweden.
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Our house is of necessity large;
I have five sisters. Eva, 16, was in
East Sroudsburg last year as an
exchange student. Marianne is 14
and has spent the last two summers
in Israel where she hopes one day
to live, Helena, a shy nine year old;
Barbro, a seven year old tomboy;
and Lotta, a darling baby of a year
and a half complete the list. The
three youngest, of course, don’t
speak English and the first few
weeks our “conversations” were
unique. Fortunately we are now
able to get most of our ideas across.
Mrs. Davidson does her own
housework, cooking, washing and
ironing and all. She has a lady
come in in the morning and again
after lunch to help her, but she
works right along with her. I take
care of my own room, and help with
dishes and table setting sometimes,
but we girls are not expected to do
too much.
Mr. Davidson is the Disponent
(managing-director) of a shoe last
factory which does international
business and he travels a great deal
in connection with his work. He is
very interesting to talk with. I like
my family very much.
At the factory there are always a
few foreign technicians who are very
much a part of the family. We have
a very nice big brother from Jamai-
ca. He has been in Denmark and
Sweden for several years and speaks
both languages. The day I arrived,
and |
we saw some of that very beautiful |
city before taking the. ferry to |
it |
is about sixty miles, straight across |
a Finnish boy was leaving and for
| the past eight weeks an Israeli
| Chemistry student has been here.
| At other times boys from the Philip-
pines, India, Sudan and Ghana have
| been included. Quite an interna-
| tional family!
Rotary
"The Simrishamn Rotaryklubb, my
host for the year, has approximately
| thirty members. Meetings are con-
ducted in the same manner as at
home, however, the Swedes are
much more formal than we are in
America, Before . the dinner each
| member solemnly greets every other
| member with a bow, a handshake,
and a formal “God Dag, God Dag.”
This custom would look a little out
of place at home but it is very
common here.
The Rotaryklubb just last week
started a new program for me which
I am enjoying very much. . They
feel that living with just one or two
‘families will not present a complete
picture of life in [Simrishamn. There-
fore, each member will have me as
a guest for a day, an afternoon or
an evening. Some of the visits may
be special, a trip or theater party
for example, while others will just
be a day with the family.
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Last Sunday I was the guest of
the Rotary President and his family.
We spent the day at their summer
home in the country. In the after-
noon we visited St. Olof’s, the oldest
Church in Skane, built in the year
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