Pride

151’2026 (2026-05-31) – Last Sunday in May

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In my post last month, 120’2026 (2026-04-01) , I foresaw that this month of May 2026 would also bring quite a few events that would make me a very proud father.

First in chronological order is an international language congress, named LREC 2026, which was held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, during the second full week of the month. You may remember that in an earlier post, 304’2019 (2019-10-31) , I showed my daughter Karina and her colleague João presenting a project named “Linguistic improvements on the text-image aligner LinkPICS”. And this time, Karina and her colleague Aline presented a paper named Meta4XNLI-ptBR: Brazilian Portuguese Extension of Meta4XNLI Corpus. It is the first corpus that deals with NLP processing of Brazilian Portuguese metaphores. See also reference #1 below. The following photos were taken during LREC 2026 on 131’2026 and 133’2026 (2026-05-11–13).

Photos taken during LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca on 131’2026 and 133’2026 (2026-11-13–15), with Karina Johansson on both photos, and together with Aline Paes presenting their paper during LREC 2026.

Today’s header photo shows Lake Zurich in Switzerland. On her way back from Mallorca to Brazil, Karina stopped over in Zurich to visit friends and go on a sight-seeing. She also took the following photos. More about Zurich can be found in reference #2 below.

Pictures from Zurich, Switzerland, taken on 137’2026 (2026-05-18) by Karina Mayumi Johansson

But wait, here comes more interesting facts from May! On 142’2026 (2026-05-22), Karina defended her master’s thesis in Data Science. Below are two photos from that event. My congratulations to her and her mentor, Helena Caseli, for eight tough but really fruitful years!


Photos taken on 142’2026 (2026-05-22) during the presentation of the Master’s thesis “Automated Metaphor Detection in Brazilian Portuguese” by Karina Johansson, together with the three jurors, from left to right Heloisa de Arruda Camargo, Helena de Medeiros Caseli, and Ivandré Paraboni (online).

That’s what I learned in school today! 

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1: Meta4XNLI-ptBR: Brazilian Portuguese Extension of Meta4XNLI Corpus

2: Zürich

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120’2026 (2026-04-30) – Sköna maj välkommen! *

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As I promised one month ago, this post will be all about pride, the feeling one has when someone near and dear deserves to be recognized for their deed.

First in chronological order is the entire Brazilian population, that finally could be proud and see a Brazilian citizen in the highest place of the prize tribune in an event belonging to an Olympic Winter Game. Here is a photo of Lucas Pinheiro Braathen and his colleague medalists at the ceremony after the alpine giant slalom skiing event. For more about Lucas, see also my earlier posts 91’2024 (2024-03-31) and 320’2025 (2025-11-16).

The first ever gold medal won by a tropical country in the history of the Winter Olympic Games. The Brazilian Norwegian Lucas Pinheiro Braathen on the podium of the men’s giant slalom on 45’2026 (2026-02-14).

Still in February, my niece, Ylva, showed her muscles and determination and concluded one of the events during the week of Vasaloppet, named Tjejvasan (the girls’ Vasalopp), making of course her family and my brother with family so proud of her feat. More about Vasaloppet can be found in my posts 66’2016 (2016-03-06) and 87’2021 (2021-03-28).

Ylva Norlin relaxing after arriving in Mora. on 52’2026 (2026-02-21). Photos taken by Reino Johansson.

Now during the month of April, I can also be proud of announcing that the number of my Swedish language students already has reached a gold jubilee, 50! Welcome Vitória and Milienne to that exclusive group!

But there is so much more to be proud of, I can already foresee some interesting things that will happen in May. See my upcoming post.

Finally, today’s header photo was taken by my friend Ana Maria, who travelled in good company to the southern tip of South America, the region of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego with Antarctica. Here are some more photos from her delightful trip. Thank you, Ana Maria, for sharing them with us!

Photos taken by Ana Maria Diniz in April 2026, while visting the region between South America and Antarctica.

That’s what I learned in school today!

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*: English translation: Welcome, ye merry month of May!

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90’2026 (2026-03-31) – Fotbolls-VM räkna med Sverige!*

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Today, I learned about:

I had planned on writing about pride in this month’s post, of which I have collected many examples during the months of February and March, 2026. But the time does not permit me, I promise that I will give you various examples in my April post.

However, I will anticipate one pride today:

I am so proud of the male Swedish national football squad that was so utterly inefficient in the first qualification phase for FIFA World Cup 2026, came back in phase 2, beating both Ukraine and Poland. GRATTIS!

That’s what I learned in school today! 

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*: English translation: FIFA World Cup, you can count on Sweden!

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