Today, my language school starts and I'm kind of nervous which fellow students will await me there. I have no idea which nationalities are curious about learning Swedish, I just know that immigrants have their own (free) SFI courses and will not attend Folksuniversitetet with me.
It is raining again and I hope my new bought sneakers can stand Stockholms heavy rain (because I bought them here!) although they just cost me 75 SEK ;-)
It was the first time that I was riding the T-bana Metro at 8am with all the people who wanna go to work and - there are a lot of people in the morning! Because I get in at Skarpnäck, the last / first station of the green line, I always get a seat, which is kind of nice but not really handy if you try to get out.
At 9am my courses start and last until midday (half day course). Our teacher is rather old and very experienced in what she is doing! She rushed us through the first chapter and was talking to us in Swedish only (using lots of drawings and pics). It is amazing how much you understand just from seeing pics! She told us that the daily amount of homework is 3h, excl. study time to repeat the class content - we all were kind of shocked but it is an intensive course and we all wanna learn Swedish really fast. For that reason I am sitting in the Stadsbiblioteket right now to do my homework - I don't wanna think about the fact that at UTas I have semester break right now, but I decided to start with summer school here *stupid*.
My fellow class mates are from all over the world:
Gabriel - Brasil
Harisha - India
Olivia - Australia (Sydney)
Iwona - Poland
Natalia - Russia
Asefu - Ethiopia
Sara - Spain
Maajika - Netherlands (Amsterdam)
We should be 13 people but only 9 of us showed up today. I already made friends with Olivia from Sydney, you can imagine why ;-)
She is in Stockholm for one year now because she has a Swedish fiancè and therefore Swedish friends, too. She said we should exchange numbers tomorrow - looking forward to get the chance to make more Swedish friends! *exciting*
What I need to do (really urgent) is registering at the 'Migrationsverket' in order to get my personal no. and to be legally here in Sweden. All these bureaucracy is need to get the documents which are required to open a bank account! I cannot believe it that for me - as a member of the EU - it is that complicated to get all these things! It was easier to get a tax file no. and a job in Texas, and I opened a bank account in 10min in Tasmania!
I ordered my registration certificate from Folksuniversitetet today and hopefully I will get it by 11:30am tomorrow. Then I have to scan all my required documents and send it online to the Migrationsverket. Then they need their time to proof everything and finally they will send my Swedish personal ID card to my mail address (after I paid the 400 SEK registration fee, of course). It's all about money, but I should have gotten used to this fact by now.
So, my To Do list has several points on it and I don't mind at all, because my 'list of stupidity' I started in Tassi has not gotten any longer since I am here in Stockholm, which is great ;-)
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