Kitty’s Place

So school is going well. Monday morning our group of about 120 new students boarded buses at the university and made our way out to a place called Barnen’s Ö, a summer camp for kids that is also used for team building sessions by different companies and obviously by the universities for introduction events. It took a couple hours to get there and then we dropped off our luggage in our assigned cabin and met in the main building for lunch. After lunch we had a number of speakers, fika and a tipspromenad. Then we went back to our cabins to change for dinner. Dinner was at 1900. We had so much food it was overwhelming. *laugh* After eating, we heard the answers to the questions we had answered on the tipspromenad and then each group had to perform a little skit or song. It was great fun. At 2330 dinner was done and the sauna got turned on and the music started. I went back to the cabin and went to bed. Apparently a number of the others came in late and then laughed and talked for an hour but I never heard a sound and slept straight through until 0930. It was lovely since I am getting up so early these days. We had a huge brunch at 1000, then our group went to clean up in the sauna, each group had assigned tasks. We gathered up a garbage bag full of empty beer cans, a case of unopened ones, a bikini, socks and towel. In the middle of cleaning a woman came and asked if we had found any clothes, we said yes and told her what and she said “you didn’t find a dress and a bra?” and then turned to her friend and said “I must have left it somewhere else.”. I am really curious about where she lost a dress and bra in a snowstorm. *laugh* After clean up, we had lunch at noon, crepes. Then we headed home. It was a nice time, we did get to know each other better and got some good info.

I was home at 1645 and went to meet LL at dance. Then we came back and headed out to stamp club. Ibo and I ended up staying and talking with Anna, upstairs in the party headquarters, while LL had his stamp club downstairs. Then it was home again and I read some for school before bed.

Wednesday we had our first official lecture, an introduction to ethics. It was interesting and I took many pages of notes. I was done at noon, picked up my student keycard and then headed home. I was here about 1330, took Rusty out to play some, took Susan for a walk, started doing laundry and dishes and just generally caught up. It was lovely that none of us had anything booked and we had a nice family evening in the middle of the week.

Today is a study day, I slept in an extra hour, took Rusty out for an hour and now I am working on formulating two questions to send in before tomorrow’s seminar. Tonight both Ibo and I have nämnd meetings so LL is going to his grandmothers. It will be a bit odd for him because his aunt won’t be there, she headed off Tuesday for a year long adventure in Australia.

Wow, it has been over 3 months since I last posted here. How did that happen?

So what has gone on all these weeks? I healed, I wrote the university entrance exams 3 weeks after my accident, I had a horrid time with my arm and my sight but now I can lift my arm over my head, tie a bow behind my back and do up my own bra. My sight is still a bit off, I no longer have blurring and I saw an eye specialist last week who said physically everything is fine. But she noted exactly what I was aware of, there is a small delay in focusing when I look from one thing to another. She felt that would also get better shortly though.

I needed 0.7 on the entrance exam, I got 0.9. I sat with my right arm in a sling and holding the paper a few inches from my face for the 5 hours I wrote, but it was worth because I got a place at the university I wanted, in the first round. I did not finish the studies I had started at the adult education centre though. I couldn’t manage with my eyes.

So this past week I started at university! In 3 years I will have my degree and be licensed to work as a nurse here in Sweden. It feels great and I am already deep in researching for the first presentation, next Friday.

Christmas was lovely, we had lots of fun, the kidlet was spoiled as were the rest of us. But Ibo got sick over the holidays and ended up with pneumonia. He is now on the mend but still tired and pale. I was sick with fever most of the holidays and the reason became clear when I had an ultrasound last Monday. I have a 1.5 cm kidney stone lodged in my left kidney. It is causing the ongoing urinary tract infections I have been having since October. I started on a new round of antibiotics and finished them yesterday. I am now waiting for CT of my kidney and then they are going to attempt to blast the stone. We spent New Years with Ibo’s dad. He was away at christmas, he made a trip to Mecca. He came home with pneumonia and was really not well but once he started antibiotics he perked up.
Llywellyn is well and happy. He has violin lessons two evenings a week, dance one evening a week, scouts every sunday, stamp club on evening a month and craft club two evenings a month. So he is a busy little boy. Now that I am going to school and making an hour and twenty commute each way, I am up a bit after 0500 and out the door by 0700. I get home between 1700 and 1800. So LL comes home himself from school and will be going to dance on his own since it is a 1600, but we will try to be here to take him to everything else.

That is a short recap of the past 3 months. We did lots, had lots of fun, lots of laughs and enjoyed life. What more can a family ask for? *laugh*