I am now registered!

So yesterday was my first real day of trying to get things done in Sweden, after having spent all of Wednesday unpacking and seeing what I needed to do and where I needed to go to do it.

So the first thing I did was go to the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket), and register on the Folkbokföring so that I am registered as living in Sweden. This also set into motion my application for a personnummer which I need before I can do practically anything here. It will apparently take 3-4 weeks for all that to go through and be posted back to me.

I also picked up the forms to get and ID card once I have my personnummer (as I need some form of ID with my personnummer on). The Skatteverket is also in the same building as the Försäkringskassan (Swedish Social Security Agency) and I picked up some forms at the same time to register for benefits or whatever once I have my personnummer.

Next I went to Swedbank to find out what I needed in order to open up a bank account and I found out that I definitely need to wait for my personnummer which is a bit of a shame but I'm sure I'll be able to cope.

I also went to every electronics shop in Borås to get some new UK to European adaptors and it was only the last shop that had them, typical isn't it!

I'm waiting to get my degree through the post so that I can send it all off to KTH and I am also going to do a new CV and update my older ones as well. Maybe I'll buy an all-in-one printer/scanner/copier as it'll make it much easier than having to go to the library each time - I saw a good one on offer yesterday as well...

But I am now official!!!