When two become three: "Postcards" from Lundsbrunn

As Shawn wrote, another busy week has past. It's an emotional journey to say at least, to sell off everything you have and arrive pretty much green in another country with just a suitcase in your hand. It's exciting. It's scary. It's fun to explore and learn how things work in this new place. It's sad as you miss people you left behind. It's lovely to meet new people. It's mind wobbling knowing that the whole "homeless & unemployed" thing is now for r e a l. And you can feel the pressure all the time. Big time! You're so focused on finding a job, a home for your family and get into a routine as soon as possible, that you hardly have time to notice that the sun slowly starts to go down around 2pm. The eyes are on the computer screen, all day... Suddenly an exciting job comes up! You get so happy and worked up - you want to send them THE BEST application that they will receive and it's hard letting go of the cover letter and actually press the send button. Shawn is lucky in the sense that he knows what field he wants to enter whilst I browse around and look for pretty much anything that sounds decent and that offers a fixed monthly salary.

For leisure, we look for housing! This is a chance to relax, dream away and also learn a little more about towns, different suburbs, housing costs and so on. We occasionally watch a DVD on the laptop in our room at night (good thinking to store up on movies when we visited Thailand). And of course on the weekend, we're accompanied by a bag of Karamellkungen smågodis. To those poor souls that have been unfortunate enough to not try Karamellkungen yet; It's Sweden's No1 brand of candy, a top quality flavoursome pick and mix candy. An average Swede consumes almost 12 kg per year (or so it's been said)!! Today Noah got to try his first piece (it's Saturday and kids in Sweden only get to eat candy on Saturdays, hence the nick name lördagsgodis = Saturday candy). He licked it and then said with a smile on his face: "Nice!". Then he had another taste and confirmed with us: "Nice". "Nice". "Nice". When the piece was all finished, he wanted more (no surprise there) and he asked in gibberish for more and pointed at the bag. We explained that we were going home for lunch and that since he is 1 year old, he could have 1 piece (cruel or smart?). Somehow he understood that and threw a tantrum. Shawn tried to hide the bag in his pocket without any luck. At least we got Noah to speed up his walking as he chased pappa all the way home :-).

Here comes some pictures from the last week. Enjoy and have a good weekend everyone!

Leisure walk - outskirts of Lundsbrunn