It's been quiet...

I must apologise for my lack of posts, I have been very busy with other things. But I am happy to report a few big bits of news.
I am now officially registered in Sweden - got a nice piece of paper through the door on Thursday!
I have been working at Sigma Kudos for over a month now and am loving it - lots of nice people, great work environment and lots of responsibility.
I have been playing innebandy - went to Stockholm for a GB camp, playing in a korpen team for Ericsson, and I now am training with a third division team as well!
Our new apartment looks amazing - I am an expert at making Ikea furniture ;-)

So sorry for the silence, but things are working out great and I will try and keep this blog going again.

:-D

One final thing left!

I have my bank card, it's active and I have set up online banking as well. I was also able to hand in a form at Försäkringskassan today and a Migrationsverket form, meaning that I have just one form left to send off to Migrationsverket once it has been filled in by my boss and then I should be a real Swedish citizen.

Things are finally piecing together :-)

I am official, at last

I finally got my personnummer today and then was able (on the second attempt, after having got yet another thing from Skatteverket) to open up a bank account.

I feel even better now that I'm actually in the system. Now I can go and get an ID card and then I'll be pretty much sorted as my bank card arrives next week.

I got the job!!!

Hello ladies and gentlemen!

I am pleased to say that I had my second interview at Sigma Kudos today and after then waiting 2hrs to know the verdict, I was more than happy to be given the job. I keep being told by people that it's very hard to get a job in Sweden at the moment as well and adding that to the fact that this is the only job I have applied for, I think it's fairly safe to say that I did rather well.

They were all so friendly as well and one of the employees (from India), when I asked him about Swedish and SFi suggested a folkhögskola and said that some of the other employees will attend and that I could go with them in order to help learn Swedish. They also gave me some information that I can read up while I still have little to do, so that I am more versed in the technology and the style of writing and so on.

Still waiting for my personnummer before I can have the final contract (have a preliminary one for the time being) and then I'll be able to go to migrationsverket as well and be all done with registration (as well as needing a bank account).

Heading to Halmstad tomorrow, for a nice weekend :-)

Just need to ring up the floorball team in Göteborg - I ought to practise if I'll be playing with GB in Stockholm at the beginning of September.

It's all happening so soon - my luck has changed and I love it!

Success with my first interview!

I was just given the news that I had passed the written test from my first interview and they would like me to come in for my follow-up interview on Thursday.

What good news! It's a shame I don't feel too happy because I've had a really bad headache all day :-(

But that's great news, now I just need to ace this interview which will apparently have some oral tests which I assume are based on certain situations and what I would do etc.

GREAT NEWS - keep looking back as I'll post the results on Thursday

My Interview and Oslo

My interview went rather well I think. I have to wait until the end of the week to see how my written test went and then I'll find out more.
But who wouldn't want me to work for them - I'm such a nice guy after all!

Oslo was amazing as well, it was such a beautiful city - especially on the water. Check my fb for pictures :-)

And keep checking back here for more updates when I get them re the interview.

New record for length of time in Sweden

So today is my 17th day in Sweden thus breaking the old record of 16 days!
Still over 2 weeks to go until it breaks my current record of time abroad (in one go).

Oslo this weekend and then the interview, exciting times in the land of the midnight sun (if I were to be further north...)!