Dad for a Minute

I've downloaded the offline dictionary twice but it still keeps telling me it can't translate without the internet x.x For the time being I'm just slowly getting better at reading Swedish so at least I'm not totally illiterate in a grocery store, but I still often run into things like the other day took me nearly 20 minutes to figure out which sugar was powdered...

I'll have to look into Comaps! Having an offline region would help so much. I'm still nearly a month out before I have the right paperwork to get a phone plan assuming everything gets handled quickly and I don't to apply for anything more than once. The paperwork here is for real

I visited for the first time just a few months before moving as a last minute "I should probably check in person if I'll actually be able to stay sane here". It was me and my best friend for a couple of weeks, we'd previously gone to Taiwan together a year or so before too. So even knowing we work well together it was still a wild time running around here trying to not be too overwhelmed. The first day after I moved here I fucked up a bus route and wound up crying on the side of a highway trying to figure out how to get back home. I didn't have a bed until day 3 we just slept on the floor and used jackets for blankets. It's been overwhelming for sure this is the most wild thing I've ever done in my life but I wouldn't have it any other way

And yeah I'm working so hard to get on a phone plan. There is a lot of stuff that needs to happen for it. Basically it is get a residency permit, get an ID card, get a bankID, use that to sign up for a phone plan. I have my residency permit and I'm halfway through getting an ID card. It's a lot of spend a couple days gathering papers then shipping information off and waiting for 2-4 weeks to see what they say

I made it to Sweden! Everyone here is really kind, Swedish is possibly the most beautiful language I've heard and I really want to learn it, I've seen an aurora with my naked eye for the first time and then two days later I got to see another even more vibrant one. Half the time when I try to buy food it isn't what I thought it was because I can't read so it's a daily random adventure what even am I eating. I'm actually really excited for the winter I miss having snow in the winters. It'll be my first winter living by myself ever though so I'm a bit worried about that but I'll make due. I've determined which chocolate melts the best in milk so I'll have plenty of varm choklad mjölk to keep warm

I was also curious, so I checked their post history and it seems that it's Sweden. I've thought about moving there myself, though I'm still in the "years of thinking about it" stage

Thank you dad <3

It's been hard losing so many of my support systems. I always thought I'd make this journey with someone but that ended up not being in the hand I was dealt. In programming there's a thing called the hill climbing problem where you are trying to get to the highest peak in a data set. Think trying to find the tallest hill in a field. You're only able to look around your immediate vicinity though. The naive approach is to always just go up from where you are until there is nowhere up left to go. It's not guaranteed to be the highest hill though since you may be next to a taller one and not realize it. I've always thought of this as a good way to think of how I approach my life where I want things to be better for myself but sometimes I have to go down a hill to see if I'm actually next to a taller one. In many ways I was very happy where I was but I also felt I capped out on what I could do, and with going through so many losses at the rate I did I just couldn't keep a hold on things very well anymore. I think this new hill I'm at the base of is going to be much taller but I have to climb the thing to find out.

Thank you for the kind words they mean a lot. I want to be a positive influence in the world it means a lot you believe in me. Love you too dad