I-Magzz Part 2, Issue 2 Volume IV | Page 32

THE SWEDISH SCHOOL SYSTEM The Swedish students get a free bus ticket they can use when going to school, they also get free lunch at school and like that wasn´t enough they get 1050 SEK each month. They actually have it really good but still there are some complaints. The Swedish school system is a little different from the school system in other countries. We in Sweden actually have it really good when it comes to the things we get and the opportunities we have. Homework and assignments on the other hand, we can discuss. Free bus tickets The Swedish students from class 7 up to upper secondary school receive a bus ticket if they have more than 3 kilometers to school. They can use the bus ticket in their county during the school year with a break at the same time as the school holidays take place. “The bus ticket is a heaven, it’s awesome to get a free bus ticket that you can use in the whole county, if I would like to travel to another city, I can do that for free with my bus ticket. I live in Skåne and in my county we can use the bus tickets between 6am to 8pm” says Johanna.– Johanna Krondahl SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT If you are out walking and you see garbage pick it up! And throw it in a dustbin. If you do that you have rescued a little bit of the environment. If we don’t take care of our environment we would eventually not survive. Most people will live a long life but how would we live a long life if we don’t take care of our world. So think one step more before you destroy the environment. Think also about the animals, if we humans destroy the environment we also destroy for the animals. So if you destroy just a little you destroy for everybody even for yourself. – Sanna Borgqvist SUPERSONIC AIRPLANES Wouldn’t it be fun to be able to go to Australia on a weekend, to Paris on a lunch or to New York for the day? Soon, it may be possible - several companies have plans for making a supersonic-plane that will cut the travel-times significantly. Spike Aerospace is now developing an airplane, “the successor to Concorde”, called Spike S-512.The plane can seat 12-18 passengers and is able to reach supersonic - Mach 1.6 (about 1800 km / h). This will half the travel time compared to a normal airplane.Let’s say, this plane would fly from Stockholm – New York, it would only take 4 hours instead of 8.The company hopes to develop the plane as fast as possible, and it is supposed to be released inyear 2018.Another company is also working on an airplane like this but an even faster one, called Sonic Star, that will be able to fly over the Atlantic in only an hour.According to the plans this plane will be in traffic in 2021. –Carolina Tufvesson PAGE 28 FACT FILE~ Sweden has one of the highest literacy rates in the world. As of 2003, its literacy rate was 99%.