At the board, teachers Marharyta Shamdin and Nadja Sidorenko switch between Swedish and Russian when they instruct their more than 20 students for the day.
The Swedish lessons are something that the study association ABF in Boden has offered for three weeks and the interest in them only seems to increase as the number of Ukrainian refugees increases.
Four classes and just over 100 students
Monday's class is one of four that the teachers teach and in total they are responsible for just over 100 students.
- We will see here towards the end of the week when there is probably another class with just over 20 students, says Marharyta Shamdin.
From the city of millions to Boden
One of the students who decided to try to learn Swedish is Svitlana Reshetnyova.
She and her four children came to Sweden on March 8 and arrived in Boden a few days later.
By then, she and the children had traveled all the way from the city of millions in Odessa in southwestern Ukraine to Boden in Norrbotten.
- I started last week with Swedish.
I will be here for at least a year and if I want to work, I need to learn the language, says Svitlana Reshetnyova.
Before fleeing the war, she worked as a preschool teacher and this is something she hopes to have the opportunity to do in Sweden in the future.
When she learned Swedish.