Good things will come…

I’ve been lazy for a couple of days, so it’s time for an update.

The first time for so many years, my birthday was not ruined by the animosities of my son. In fact, we had a calm and relaxing day, spending much time learning Swedish, taking a walk through the winter wonderland, going out to our asian restaurant, watching the Swedish commercials on TV (oh my, does TV really have such long commercial breaks? How can you even stand this?). Talking to friends on the phone. Thanks for calling, thanks for your emails, much appreciated.

We intensified our efforts for finding a flat, registering at so many sites, writing to landlords etc. Yesterday then, we got a phone call from a nice lady called Juliet, who actually might consider us to be worthy tenants. If this works out, we would be able to move into a furnished flat by January 15th until the end of 2022. The apartment would be rather close (15 min walk) to the first school Johannes would go to to learn Swedish. As a follow-up there’s a Montessori school even closer where we might apply for.

As the apartment is already furnished, we cannot place our stuff from Munich there. On the other hand, this means we would have a bed there from the beginning. But we could really use this as a base to find our future house somewhere in the green. So please make this happen! Pretty please!

Yesterday was an important day for Katharina, too. She had her second job interview with the nice bunch of people of the patent office company she called from Munich. They had lunch and talked and: It’s looking pretty good for what I’ve heard. There’ll be another meeting when the rest of the crew is back from vacation.

Today is a rather dull day. It’s foggy outside and the snow is gone. No going down the hills in a nearby park on a plastic bobsled today. For New Years Eve, it’s gonna be rain all day. But it should stop at midnight 🙂

Wishing you all the best for the upcoming year. We will probably just cuddle up in our beds and learn Swedish or watch TV. See you in 2022! The year of the big changes for so many of us (hi Jan!).