I will soon start working at a moving company carrying furniture and things like that, it’s a part time job but it seems like it’ll be more or less full time from the middle of November and until Bec arrives. I will probably start in about a week depending on how much work they have. Today I have booked train tickets and a little hut in Åre (Sweden) so me and Bec can go skiing together. We’ll leave on 7 January and have 5 days of skiing before we head back (there’s 2 beds left in the hut so if anyone is interrested…) Since we booked fairly early we got a pretty good deal, the ski passes will later cost us just as much as the trip and accommodation together. The good thing about catching the train is that you travel over night and get a bed to sleep in so the trip goes faster and you save on nights accommodation.

The trip to Berlin went fine but wasn’t very exciting, 24h on the bus and 9h there. I arrived in Berlin before 06.00 on Monday morning so it was still dark. It was quite interesting walking around in the city with almost no other people around. I got into a shopping mall around 7.30 but no shops were open yet, quite a different experience to walk around window shopping when the whole mall is more or less empty. When I got to the Australian embassy the meeting went very quickly. All the paperwork I provided was fine and we only have to add a few things and I´ll get the visa. Since it was raining in Berlin it wasn´t too exciting being there and I was also pretty tired after not having a very good sleep on the bus so I caught an earlier bus and got home to Gothenburg 03.00 Tuesday morning. Luckily my dad was nice and picked me up at the bus stop. Today Bec found out that she got accepted to the Alfred hospital for her Grad year, it was her first choice so now we only have to hope that she can get a spot in her preferred ward.

Organising the last paperwork before leaving for Berlin in 4 hours. Everything looks in order and hopefully I’ll have my visa in about 24h.

Nothing new in the job section yet. On Sunday I’m taking the bus to Berlin to apply for my new visa. Because Australia doesn’t have an embassy in Sweden anymore I have to go to Berlin for my meeting about my new visa. I could have just sent the application by mail but then I wouldn’t have any idea when they would actually go through the application so this option seems better even if it means two fun 12h bus trips. Monday is also the day when Bec finds out what hospital she’ll get accepted at to do her grad year. It’s a bit more complicated to get jobs here in Sweden than in Australia. You can’t usually just go into a store and say hi and get a job but I’m confident that something will turn up shortly.

Still haven’t found a new job but I’ve applied for quite a few so something will come up soon. The weekend didn’t go as planned regarding the soccer, both Sweden and the Coasters lost.

I’m currently unemployed after quitting my job on Tuesday, but I’ve applied for some new ones. After three weeks of working as a phone salesman I had enough, money isn’t everything when you really hate what you are doing. It was a bit sad to leave my job since everyone that worked there where really nice but it was such a relieve when I did it. I have now registered at quite a few places like Manpower that hire out temporary workers, and on Monday I’ll start going out to shops and hand in my resume. It’s been really nice to have a couple of days off and catch up with my dad and things. Because I started working almost straight away when I got home I haven’t really had time to do that. Yesterday I also re arranged my room and threw out a lot of old stuff so now it looks much better but there’s still some tidying up to do. Tonight Sweden are playing against Croatia in a qualifying match for the soccer world cup next year, and tomorrow Surf Coast Soccer Club is in the Grand Final against “the Cardinals” so I have very important soccer weekend to look forward to.

Yesterday we went ten-pin bowling with work and then went out partying. It was fun and a good way off getting to know all my new work mates, but I’m a bit slow today.