Starting A New Life

It's official, i'm leaving Sweden and will make Germany my homebase permanently! (with frequent visits to Sweden). It's been official since Saturday but I needed time to process it, understand it's actually happening and start with the planning first until I wanted to write it here. On Februari 11th i'll take the train down to Germany, a travel that will take me about twelve hours (with two hours to kill in Denmark). The reason I will travel the slow way and not just grab a flight is cause my pet rabbit is coming with me and it was a hussle to find a flight company that takes rabbits, and the ones that does only allow them under the plane with all the suitcases. Obviously there's no chance i'm transporting a living, breathing animal there. Especially nothing as fragile as a rabbit. So me and the little guy will travel together through half of Sweden, Denmark and then down to Hamburg. Final destination and home!

At the moment there's a lot of stuff that needs to be sorted out though and only bringing Milton (the rabbit) has been a pain to figure out and all is still not clear. I'm still in the proccess of finding out whether he needs to get vaccinated against anything or if he is fine as he is but no one seems to know! I've contacted about six vetenarian clinics in the country and i've been forwarded so many times to the department of agriculture in Sweden, who, surprise, surprise, doesn't know anything either! At this point i'm waiting for an answer from the German embassy, but if they don't know anything i'm not sure what I will do. I really don't understand how hard it can be?

I've just started this process which will take quite some time. I figure the next step will be to sort out some arrangements with my bank and announce my leave to the civil registry. I also need to get all my stuff sent off to Germany so I would need to arrange something for that as well. Pack, unback when I get there. Apply to a German language course, since my German is still extremely bad, and get a German phone provider. I can't wait for the actually fun stuff, like getting to decorate the flat more properly, buying stuff that we need and turning this into my home, my home with my stuff in it. Oh, and get to see my boyfriend every day! :) I also obviously will need to notify the German civil registry about my precense in the country and hopefully find a part time job pretty soon. There's probably plenty more stuff, even stuff I have no idea I need to do at this point but will realise along the way. On top of this planning i'm still doing the math course I mentioned in an earlier post, plus Christmas is approaching. Needless to say, I feel kind of stressed! Happy, but stressed.

I will leave it at this for now. I just wanted to announce my move to the "world".

Hamburg City Hall at night
Source: math.uni-hamburg.de

Kristina xoxo

A Perfect Shade Of Purple

I wanted to upload some photos from my room here in Sweden. I really like the way it turned out, and when I move i'll probably miss it. A bit anyway. But most of the stuff I will bring with me in the move anyway (yes my boyfriend will have to move his stuff aside haha). I was too lazy to edit these but hopefully you'll like them!

   

I will end this picture bomb post with a christmas picture from Hamburg. Yes we already started slightly with the christmas decorations. A lovely star my boyfriend got... somewhere. Might have been IKEA. How I love christmas :)

Kristina xoxo

Museum of Hamburg History

It's about time for another blog post, don't you think? I've been quite busy with a job searching course and since one week back I've been studying math. It's a course I failed three years ago but now i'm making a new attempt hoping it will be easier now when I only have math to think about, not eight more subjects to juggle like last time. I've had great help and support from my boyfriend who's more or less a genius when it comes to math so i'm in good hands. Even though I still struggle, it's so much easier with his help and in only one week I've learnt a lot. Cross your fingers for me.

Source: hamburgmuseum.de

I won't make this whole post about maths though. I actually came home from Hamburg last night where I spent the weekend together with my mother. She saw mine and my boyfriend's flat for the first time, as well as Hamburg in general. We visited the museum of Hamburg history Saturday which was very interesting. You could follow the history of Hamburg from the very first settlements there to the circa 19th century or so. They had some old impaled skulls exhibited, one of them claimed to belong to a "famous" pirate named Klaus Störtebeker who was executed early 15th century I believe. They even had his face reconstructed after the skull features which was really impressive to see. The Wasa museum in Stockholm have a similar exhibition where they have reconstructed the faces of skeletons they found onboard on the sunken ship and I love stuff like that. Seeing how these people that lived for so many years ago looked. Anyhow, back on topic. The museum of Hamburg history also had the usual museum stuff, such as old coins they've found and a whole lot of armor and canons. A whole exhibition of immigration during the 19th century as well as boats and ships (since Hamburg is a harbour city). The big fire of Hamburg that ruined big parts of the city in the 19th century was also mentioned. On the lower floor they had a whole lot of historical clothes. Fancy 18th- and 19th century gowns, gloves, hats and even children's wear. Gorgeous to see. A few 20s, 50s and 60s dresses was also exhibited to see. I can really recommend the Museum of Hamburg history if you're visiting Hamburg. It's really large and you will spend many hours in there, well worth the money.

Unfortunately we forgot the camera at home but I found some photos online. The picture below is of Klaus Störtebeker and the top one is of the museum building itself.

Source: spiegel.de

After the museum we had a quick look through the "Dom" which was just around the corner from the museum, it's some kind of large amusement park that is set up in Hamburg four times each year, lasting for a month. I didn't go on any rides, but it was fun just to watch! Amazed by the brave people that dared going on many of those rides. 

We have started to get it really lovely in the Hamburg flat, and started to slightly decorate for Christmas. Can't wait until the Christmas tree is up, even though there will be some time until then.  I have got a few photos from our living room but I will save them for another post. 

Kristina xoxo