Simple Swedish Podcast - #237 - Hur jag nästan dog i Turkiet (svår)

Episode Date: June 19, 2024

Missa inte det GRATIS webbinariet på onsdag 19 juni kl 17:00 om hur man överlever BARA på svenska. Registrera dig här! Nivå: B1-B2   I det här avsnittet berättar jag om några erfarenheter från sjukhus i Turkiet, bland annat om en gång när jag var nära att dö. -------------------- För att stödja podden och få transkript till avsnitten - bli patron för bara 5€ per månad – klicka här! Tycker du redan att den här podden är ganska lätt, och vill nå en avancerad nivå i svenska? Då är kursen Strong Swedish för dig! Klicka här för att läsa mer! ------------------- Instagram: swedish.linguist YouTube: Swedish Linguist Website: www.swedishlinguist.com Language Lock-in: https://www.languagelockin.com/ ------------------- Ett smakprov (sample) på transkriptet:   Hej där! Jag hälsar dig välkommen till Simple Swedish Podcast. Idag tänkte jag att jag ska prata lite snabbare, och jag ska prata om hur jag nästan dog i Turkiet.   För jag bodde i Turkiet år 2014 (tjugo-hundra-fjorton) och där jobbade jag på ett hotell en säsong. Det var ungefär mellan april och oktober. Jag jobbade då som guest relation host på ett ganska stort hotell där. Det var nästan bara skandinaviska gäster. Så alltså folk från Sverige, Norge, Finland, Danmark. Det var faktiskt ganska intressant rent språkligt, för att vi var tvungna att prata så kallad skandinaviska. Så jag som svensk, jag var tvungen att prata med norskar och danskar också. Samtidigt! Och därför var man tvungen att anpassa språket lite så att alla tre nationaliteter skulle förstå. Och det kallade man då för skandinaviska. Och det går faktiskt! Det är ganska intressant.   Med finnarna var man tvungen att prata engelska om de inte var finlandssvenskar. Och det var mycket som hände där. Och här då tänkte jag berätta om en ganska specifik episod, som var att jag nästan dog faktiskt. Ganska sjukt.   Men innan vi gör det så vill jag tacka några nya patrons såklart. Och det är Steffen, Nina, Shomaila, Ewelina, Lily, Terry, DNA, och Alex. Så tack till er för att ni stödjer podden! Om det här avsnittet är lite snabbt för dig så skulle transcript komma väl till pass för dig. Det kan du då få om du blir patron. Gå till www.patreon.com/swedishlinguist.   ....för att läsa hela transkriptet till detta och alla andra avsnitt, klicka här!

Hello there, I greet you and welcome to Simple Swedish Podcast. Today I thought I would talk a little faster and I will talk about how I almost died in Turkey. I lived in Turkey in 2014. I worked at a hotel there for a season. It was between April and October. I worked as a guest relation host at a pretty big hotel there. There were almost only Scandinavian guests. People from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark. It was actually quite interesting, really language-wise. Because we were forced to speak so-called Scandinavian. So I, as a Swede, I was to speak with Norwegian and Danish at the same time,

and that's why I had to adjust the language a little so that all three nationalities would understand. And that's what they called Scandinavian. And it actually works, it's quite interesting. The Finns were forced to speak English if they were not Finnish-Swedish. And a lot happened there. And here I was going to tell you about a rather specific episode, which was that I almost died actually. Pretty sick. But before we do that, I want to thank some new Patrons of course. And that's Steffen, Nina, Shomaela, Evelina, Lilly, Terry, DNA and Alex.

So thank you for supporting the podcast. If this episode is a bit short for you, then the transcript would be good for you. If you become a patron, go to patreon.com slash Swedish I'm a little allergic right now because I cleaned a little under the bed. And under the bed it often becomes very dusty. So there was a lot of dust flying up and I'm allergic to dust. So therefore I feel a little allergic. But I will try to record a good episode anyway. So, I lived in Turkey, worked at this hotel, and it was in a city called Side,

and it's a pretty small city, and the hotel was also outside of Centrum, so you had to take a country road through some forest and fields to get to the hotel. Sometimes I drove a car and sometimes I cycled. But I like to cycle, so I cycled quite often. I was on my way to work, I cycled quite often. So I was on my way to work, I cycled there on the road. And yes, I cycled on the edge as you should do. I didn't cycle in the middle of the road, there was no curve,

it wasn't difficult to see me, it was not dark But suddenly, bam! It hit me It's a car that drives into me from behind And I just fell right down into the ditch. I remember how it was like a very hard hit in the head. Actually. So I fell down into the ditch. The ditch is a ditch.

It is this spring that often exists next to the road. So next to the road, or between the road and the field or the forest or whatever it is that the road goes through, there's some kind of a funnel that goes down next to the road. And that's called a dike. So I fell down in the dike, So I fell down in the ditch. And I had no idea if I was dead or if I was unharmed. Being unharmed means you're not hurt. Because it goes very fast.

And because it's a shock and you get a lot of adrenaline, you don't feel any pain. So you have no idea how badly damaged you actually are. And the sick thing was that this car that had driven into me, it doesn't stop, it just keeps driving, it's going. And I remember that I thought that I should check the registration number on the car. But at the same time I didn't know if I was dead or injured, so I thought that it's a higher priority to check my body and see if I was very hurt somewhere. I knew that I felt my body here and there. Checking if I was hurt somewhere, if I had broken into my leg, I had some wounds. It seemed pretty calm, but then I felt it on the back of my head. On the back of my head, and there, when I looked at my hand after that, I just saw a lot of blood. And I thought, okay, shit.

So on the back of my head it was bleeding. But I felt a little more and it seemed like, okay, it might not be... I might not have broken my skull bone, but it seems to be a superficial wound. And generally it seemed like it had gone well. So it was a damn luck. Luck in the bad luck, as they say in Swedish. Unluck for being run over. To be run over. That someone runs on you.

It's of course bad luck, but if you manage relatively unscathed, you're lucky in the unfortunate. So, what do I do? I call, because we have some kind of partnership with a clinic there. So I call them, so I have a number directly to a clinic, which is the company I work for. We have some kind of partnership with a specific clinic. So I call that clinic and tell them what happened. And then I call my boss and tell them what happened. And I think I don't remember who, or if I called a taxi, or if they came to pick me up. But I went to a hospital,

and I spent the rest of the day in three different hospitals. So the first hospital was where they checked what had happened, and if there was any kind of plaster or something. that on the other hospital there then they sat on my back and the head. And I...

So it's called for you to cut, and this thread, you cut with a thread of course, and you cut 14 stings. And there are quite a few stings. But I was very lucky, I wasn't seriously injured. So it was only these 14 stings. And it had gone well, basically. But I still have an R. An R is what is seen after the wound has healed, then you say that you have an R. You know, Scar in The Lion King has an R over his eye,

for example. So, what happened next? I went to the police station to report this, of course, and I remember that I was sitting in the office at the police station and I remember that this policeman had a gun on the table and weapons always make me very nervous. I always get nervous when it comes to people with weapons in the vicinity. I find it quite unpleasant.

But they were helpful and nice. We went to the place where it happened. Apparently there were cameras along the road. They wanted to see if there was a camera somewhere that they could see on the recording. If there was a registration sign on the car or something. But unfortunately there was no such camera there. there, at that place. So, yeah, it's a bit of a mystery who the hell was driving on me and why they didn't stop. Because I thought about it quite a lot, like,

I thought, how is it possible that you drive on someone and then leave? Because they don't know if I'm alive or not. For them, how would they know? They drove away. So I thought that, okay, either it's someone who wanted to drive on me, who drove on me with effort. With effort means that it's the intention, so you do it with effort. You do it, you plan and it's with will, so you do it. But yeah, not particularly likely that someone wants to kill me. To kill someone is to kill someone so that the person dies, to kill someone.

You can kill someone, so you kill someone dies, or yeah, kill. Verb plus kill is that you do the verb to someone dies. So I thought that it's not particularly likely that someone wants to drive me to death. So then it must be someone who happened to drive me. So to happen to do something is to not do it with effort. So it was probably someone who happened to drive on me.

But then you wonder why they leave. Because you notice if you drive on someone. But why do you drive away? Do you just get so scared and get some kind of shock and panic and just keep going. That's the only explanation I have for that. That someone just got panicked and kept going. Because I don't know... For me it's crazy that someone drives a person away and then drives away.

It's completely unbelievable for me. Because then you will live with it for the rest of your life, that you don't know what happened to that person. Luckily it went well and everything went so fast that I didn't even have to be scared. And that's the closest thing I've been to dying. I don't think I've been particularly close to dying another time, fortunately. I was actually in the hospital one more time. In Turkey, luckily, it was not life threatening. But it was quite strange because I got some kind of allergic reaction. It was my colleague who said that I was completely red in the face, on the body. I felt quite normal they put me in a bed there and then I got a drop.

And drop is, I noticed that because they really give a drop to everyone who comes in to the hospital there. Because, I don't know, when you work there, at a hotel with over a thousand guests, a lot of things happen. And it was pretty common that people didn't have to go to the hospital, because there are a lot of children's families, and things happen, basically. And almost every time, for the smallest little thing, you always got drops. So drop is this, that you have a kind of bag with a liquid in it, and then you have a little hose into the arm.

Yes, that's what drops are called. So I got a drop. And then a guest came from the hotel where I worked. And I still had my uniform on. So this guest, she saw that I was one of the people working at the hotel. And I thought, shit, I don't want her to know that I've had an allergic reaction. Because then people can start talking and they can start talking about that the staff at the hotel get allergic reactions at the hotel that something is dangerous, something is happening at the hotel so I didn't want people to start talking so I told her that it's no problem deal, it was just a small thing. I don't remember exactly what I said, but I tried to dramatize it.

I remember another thing that happened at the hospital. at the hospital there. So, there was a woman who was there with her daughter. And the daughter got sick. I can't remember exactly what happened to her, but I think

she had trouble breathing maybe. I think it was something with the airways. And the hard part was that the mother didn't have insurance. She didn't have any travel insurance. Neither to herself, or at least not to the daughter. That's what I remember.

Because usually when you travel you have an insurance. And there, the hospitals And the private hospitals where the tourists go, they take so damn much money. It costs a lot of money to stay in those hospitals because they know that they can take a lot of money. Because everyone has insurance, so no one cares about what it costs. So they can take a lot of money. And that's probably why they give drop to everyone who comes there. Because they also take the money for that, of course. But this woman had no insurance for the daughter.

And she was in panic, because they didn't know what was wrong with the daughter. She was forced to spend the night at the hospital. Spending the night at the hospital cost like 10 000 SEK. That's really expensive. She felt that she couldn't afford it. So she was in a very tough situation. Like, okay, my daughter needs care, I don't have insurance, I don't know how to pay for it. So, really, have insurance when you travel.

It's damn important to have insurance when you travel, because you never know what could happen. And if something happens, it can cost a lot of money. So it's important to have travel insurance. In Sweden, it's often included in home insurance. I don't know how it is in other countries, but in Sweden it almost always includes a travel insurance, a home insurance. I don't know how this woman didn't have insurance. So, anyway, there we had some stories from my time in Turkey, some unpleasant stories when they happen, But in retrospect it's quite interesting and useful. Before we end I wanted to ask you a question.

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