As an addendum to my previous post: I got my person number in the mail on Friday. I finally, really exist in the Swedish system. Yay ( Read more... )

Apartment update: After returning from Väderöbod we turned our attention to getting an apartment. You need to know that apartments are in short supply in all of Sweden's cities - especially those with universities. Uppsala has 2 universities. Gerda took point on finding our apartment. Every day she would scour the online ads and call almost ( Read more... )

Moving day went smoothly. Gerda had worked hard and I had done a bit so most things were already packed by the time Monday morning came. My sister, my Dad's brother and my Mom's brother's son came to help at 9 (they hadn't seen each other in over 20 years I think) and Dad came a bit after 10 with the truck ( Read more... )

In the next 7 days I/we ( Read more... )

Into my second term a CultureWorks and still loving it. I really love teaching and I am still getting better at it all the time ( Read more... )

For the first time in my life I now have the big three: a job, an apartment and a significant other. I've waited a long time for this and it feels really good ( Read more... )

I'm in week 10 of my 12 week teaching ESL course. I'm working on some homework about using blogs in ESL and we had to watch this video. I think tis a cute, simple summary of what blogs are so I thought I'd post it here :)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

That's right! I've signed up for a program at Seneca College. I'm taking training to become a teacher of English as a Second Language (TESL). I'm taking both the TESL 1 and TESL 2 qualifications. TESL 1 qualifies me to teach 'abroad' and TESL 2 qualifies me to teach here in private classes and Goverment LINC (LAnguage Instruction for Newcomers ( Read more... )

Summer's almost ended - I never found a better job so I'm still lifeguarding. But other than low pay its a pretty sweet job - I spend my days outdoors, either cleaning the pool (mild activity), chatting with people, watching people swim or, when the pool's empty, reading ( Read more... )

So yes, I have a job, but it turns out they're not willing to pay me any more than $11 an hour! For lifeguarding! So I'm back in the conundrum of trying to find other work. I'll keep this one until I find something better ( Read more... )