Nothing

There's almost nothing going on right now. I've still not heard back from SFI about when I can start classes. My first class for school starts on Friday. David's been playing with his new computer and I've been spending time at the library studying for Friday's class. We had a brief snowstorm. Which was completely melted within 36 hours. Today was beautiful, about 7 degrees above 0 and sunny.

The controllers for the Wii came last week. They work... but the one I've been using rattles already. Not really pleased with the quality, but what can you expect for the price. Been spending way too much time playing video games since there isn't much else for me to do at the moment. It's nice and relaxing, but a bit boring.

Birthday and SFI

Yesterday I spent another 2 hours at the hair salon. The end result being a very nice looking hair style. It just took forever to get what I wanted. My hair is much abused now, having been dyed 3 times in two days. It looks wonderful though.

Yesterday was also my birthday. Besides spending an unreasonable amount of time getting my hair done, I also had a small birthday dinner. David and Peter and I ate a very nice dinner, drank some cheap wine, and ate chocolate cake. Peter made the cake for me as a birthday present. A Betty Crocker cake with the icing from the can. It was wonderful! David gave me two presents. One is a promise to go out to dinner later and the other is 500 kr towards video game stuff. I also got some money from relatives.

Today I had my SFI interview. I managed to go through the entire thing in Swedish. They said they weren't quite sure what to do with me since I could already speak Swedish quite well. They gave me a small written test that I did quite poorly on I think. They're still going to put me at the D level they think. (There are only 4 levels... A B C and D). Within a few months they think I should be able to pass the national test. That isn't the TISUS (Test in Swedish for University Studies) but instead is the one that allows me to get a job I think. Anyways, I'm just waiting now for them to call me or send me an email saying what class they think I should join. The ideal class is 5 times a week from 12:30 until 4 or something like that. I'll be late to class at least one day a week due to university classes, but if they can, that's where I should be. It will be expensive though, since I'll have to have a bus card to get there. It will be 60-70 USD (400-500 kr) a month for the bus tickets. Oh well, at least the class is free.

We also got two packages today. One was the controllers for the Wii so that I can finally play my farming game that I got for Christmas. The other package was toner for David's printer. Now it can print again! David also ordered a new computer today so that we don't have to have his fire-hazard computer in the apartment for too much longer.

Wow... lots of things are happening here in just the last two days!

Hand Controllers!

Well, David and I finally found some affordable hand controllers. I hope they will work! We previously had two of the controllers from Game that were Wii colored, but they cords were so short. They were under 2 meters. We can't afford wireless controllers, so we bought some cheap ones and bought two cables to lengthen the cables. Anyways, if everything arrives in a timely manner and works properly, I'll give a short advertisement for the store. Not sure how many of my readers are in Sweden and play video games, but it seems to be a new website ran by an individual instead of a big company. That's always good. So soon we should have 4 new hand controllers and 2 lengthening cables.