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School has started again, and for those of you who think that it is monotonous with teachers, homework and project work 365 gives you: Seven things you can do at your school.

When I was in middle school, I was in the worst class in the whole of Göteborg. All the teachers were afraid of us and our class teacher got tired of us and put herself in a psychiatric ward because she could not handle our particular bunch of restless twelve year-olds. Instead we had a substitute named Stefan. Stefan was a former UN soldier, used snuff and had black boots. Instead of having math lessons he arranged full-scale water fights with water guns, buckets filled with water and water balloons. The whole staff room was spotted with puddles, the asphalt in the playground adopted a darker hue, and our wet clothes hung as heavy dog fur from our bodies. It was the most enjoyable month of my years in school.

Bonus - Water War North against South 080,808th This is really serious.

These kids could have used a student council.

Now, almost everyone’s started school again after summer vacation. We are celebrating this year of 365 with its own theme week - seven things you can do at your school.

The teachers at my old secondary school hated me very much. There were two reasons:

1. I talked all the time and questioned everything.

2. I knew my rights as a student.

Just because we live in Sweden and have food, shelter and most of our human rights met does not mean the absence of social struggle altogether. Gather your friends at school and start a student council. Piece of cake. Moreover, it can make your situation at the school much better. It can affect the school food, the way the school looks, the length of classes, the amount of homework and tests, and the way teachers hand out punishment in class. Did you know that it is illegal to punish a whole class just because there is a suspicion that a person has done something? It's called collective punishment.

1. Gather a bunch of friends. It is enough if you are a handful at first. Write down what you want to change the school and how to make the situation better.

2. Send an email to Svea - Sweden's student council and tell them that you want to start a student council.

3. Visit the headmaster and tell him or her that you want to start a student council. He or she has nothing they can do about it. It is your right to do so. And you should.

The last two play until one reaches three points.

The trouble with team sports is that there’s often only room for one star. A Zlatan Ibrahimovic, a Victoria Smith, a Foppa. The other players pass it forward, defend and run their butts off without getting half as much cred as the superstar on the team.

What’s boring about individual sports is that you usually play them one on one. The others just get to stand and watch. One can easily become tired of his opponent and the way they wipe the sweat of their forehead.

In table tennis it is all against all. It is an individual sport - but in groups. You can shine and keep yourself in the game till the end. You can invite everyone you know. And if Zlatan decides to show up the rest of the participants can decide to crush him together.

Alexander Kandiloros has previously spoken about being tongue-tied in front of Regina Spektor, couch surfing and all the jeans that litter his house. Now for something completely different:

One of the things I like best is learning new things. Pattern recognition. Being able to keep up with conversations with very different people. There are those who know everything there is to know about a single subject, but as for myself, I've never been able to choose one area. I want to know everything! About everything! Which at best leads to me to know a little about a lot.

Introduction to Greek mythology, Biology of philosophers, argumentation analysis for beginners, Aesthetic History of Ideas, and Modern Hebrew are examples of evening courses taught at the University of Gothenburg. One evening a week; we can all fit that into our schedules. We will never be fully taught, we will never be finished. The brain is a muscle that needs to be exercised to become big and strong.

But you don’t even need to apply for a course to go to a lecture. All lectures are public - and free, and with one phone call or by Googling, you can find out where those interesting lectures are taking place. Get what an amazing country we live in!

At ABF, you can learn to bind books, paint with watercolors, cook, or why not accounting? There simply is something for everyone. Their courses often cost a bit but not much really. There are skills to develop and nurture, and there is money to be saved by repairing our own clothes, books and furniture, people to impress people by knowing a little about a lot.