The Dreamings of a Silly Girl

This entry here is mostly going to be what I picture my life as in the near future. It's silly but here goes!

From now until Christmas I'm going to study and if I can get some odd jobs for extra money, I'll take them as time permits.

After Christmas I'm going to Sweden for 3 weeks. I'm already starting to plan all the things I'd like to bring and then leave there. It'll mean less stuff to move when I actually do move over there. Bf has storage even though his apartment isn't that big. During this time going to visit his parents for new years (probably party with his friends). Going to also get to know his roommate better. Hopefully she'd consider keeping the apartment with him and just letting me pay a third of the rent to share his room.

After that trip I'll be working a hopefully paying job for as many hours a week as time permits. I'll have the job title 'research assistent' which would be a quite nice qualification to have on my resume. That's why I am sticking with this internship. I'm learning a LOT of useful skills. Hopefully they'll get me a job in Sweden. I'll save up as much money as is humanly possible. I'll also apply for my residence permit as soon as I leave Sweden. I have to make a choice about that... apply as an EU citizen once I arrive in Sweden (probably easier), or apply as a US citizen before I leave for Sweden. Lots of pros and cons there... probably worth another entry at a later date.

Beginning of June or late May I might go to Sweden. Unless bf and his friend want to come visit me here. Then I might go over there later.

Once I get to Sweden I'll try to apply for university courses. I don't know if I can because it'll mean I won't be earning much money, but I'd like to. I'd rather be in a master's program, but I have to apply for that in February at the latest for the following year... degree in hand. Can't be working on it. So I'll have a year off between degrees.

I'll have tickets home at christmas time. If I can't survive in Sweden I'll have to give it up. Hopefully I'll have had enough luck that I can buy a ticket back to Sweden and be able to live there on a permenant basis.

I'd like to enroll in Swedish classes through the university for migrants. Once I've lived in Sweden for awhile I should qualify. Perhaps by doing that I can get some government money towards school costs. They'd be loans I'd have to pay back... but it'd be something. With loans like those I could actually survive for a much longer period of time.

In the summer or spring I'd like to go home for a few weeks to see my family and maybe bring more stuff back to Sweden with me if all is going well. In the fall 2007 I'd like to start a master's program.

I wish myself luck!