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