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!