Finances

This is my biggest worry. How the heck will I manage to support myself once I'm over there! I can't rely on the boyfriend to support me, he's a student. I'd feel guilty forcing him to pay my way for anything. My Swedish isn't very good, so I don't know if I can get a work. Who would hire someone like me when there are lots of perfectly good swedes out there!

My ideas for jobs include...
*Working at the student nations again... they pay only like 20-30 SEK an hour, but it includes free food and is often night work. I can get some extra money this way.
*I could always see if I can get a babysitting job. Someone has to be interested in having an English speaking babysitter for their kid.
*Tutoring in English. Kid is failing? Maybe I can help... for a fee?

I can also do volunteer work in schools to help teachers with English lessons or something. That way maybe I can meet more kids and perhaps some parent will hire me out of pity? Or feed me at least! *laugh*

I had a job working with a 4 year old last year. She lived in the US with her family and had a pretty good command of English, they wanted her to keep it up. It paid pretty well. 100SEK for an hour and a half. With occasional perks of food and extra bits of cash. It was just once a week, but that money was always helpful.

I can also put up flyers around town advertising the fact that I'd like to help tutor in English. I don't have any degrees with teaching english as a second language, but I could always try to get TEFL certified or something.

I'll plot out my living expense estimations in the next entry. I'm trying to keep these things from getting too long!