I exist!

Last night I didn't sleep very well. I kept waking up. When I finally got up in order to go to class... we had no running water. Studentstaden, our housing company, had turned it off again. I found enough water in a glass to brush my teeth, but that was it. Lectures at school today were relatively boring too.

But lots of good things happened to me today too. I got a package from my little brother, written in my mom's handwriting. I'm not sure if my brother even knows he sent me a Christmas present. But that is another present under our little Christmas tree. I got an even better piece of mail too. A letter from Skatteverket. I now have a personal number! I can do all sorts of things now that I officially exist. I can get an ICA kort. I can change my bank account over to a real number. I can own my own cell phone. I can tell the university my new real number so that I'm listed correctly. I can get a Swedish ID card (they even sent me the paperwork for this one). I can sign up for SFI (Swedish for immigrants). I can get healthcare! This is just beyond cool. I still have to deal with the immigration authorities a bit, but that should be much easier now that I have a personal number. It is nice to actually exist.

Oh, and I mailed out most of the Christmas cards. I have 4 more still to write, but since they should be done in Swedish, I'm going to make David write them.