On 16 July, the crate with my stuff was sent from the USA. It was about the size of a large refrigerator box with 100 cubic feet of space. It arrived today, 73 days later. The 10 weeks and 3 days is significantly longer than the 8 week estimate, which would have come at a better time 2 weeks ago. But at least it is here, and it seems thus far that things were packed pretty well (though I haven’t unpacked all the dishes yet).
I’m grateful to the crew of volunteers from Johannelund who helped unload and carry boxes up two flights of stairs to our apartment.
Now it is time to unpack boxes.
I have to give a special public thanks to Omar, who helped me get connected with Internet. I had tried earlier with the little information I had, but I ran into the message that there were no Internet providers for my address. That’s when I tried to get through the Swedish phone tree and got to some sort of survey that was beyond my Swedish capacity (as mentioned in a previous posting). So, we’ve been dependent upon the pay-as-you-go (with gigabyte limits) account that is actually Jim’s. When we run out of data, I give hims some more cash to load the account. However, Omar knew how to get around this “no providers available” and got me to the right site to sign up for an account! This was so simple for someone who knew what to do. He even called back later to make sure things were OK.
The kindness of these students went a long way today!
With blessings,
Beth
Yeah! Happy unpacking. It’s like birthdays and Christmas all rolled into one. The old stuff never looked so good, eh?