Application Sent
Last Saturday I mailed off my residence permit application, along with my passport and a check for $147. Sigh. Oh, and nearly $30 for the express mail shipment. It reached the General Consulate of Sweden in New York at 8:45am Monday, so I’m hoping that the processing is speedy and fair.
The conversation around the house has shifted entirely to planning the pre-Sweden traveling. We are finally getting to the point where reservations can be made in the next 3 days. The plan so far:
Aug 04: RDU to Budapest
Aug 05: Budapest
Aug 06: Budapest
Aug 07: Budapest
Aug 08: Bratislava
Aug 09: Vienna
Aug 10: Vienna
Aug 11: Vienna (day trip to Graz?)
Aug 12: Prague
Aug 13: Prague
Aug 14: Prague
Aug 15: Prague to RDU Plane (Dad, Mom, Sachi, Sapana)
Aug 15: Prague to Copenhagen Train (Saket)
Aug 16: Copenhagen (Saket spends night), family arrives home
Aug 17: Saket arrives in Lund for Arrival Day.
I’m pushing Mom to get the plane tickets booked via the Indian travel agent. Hopefully that will get started today or tomorrow. Our hotels are the latest X-factor….we had a good call with Best Western and we might go with them. Surprisingly to us, Prague is gonna be most $$$, instead of Vienna as we had thought. We decided to nix visiting Berlin cause it just wasn’t worth it for the amount of money. So far this trip is coming to be approximately $11,500 (on the high side) for the entire family. Whew. At the moment my concern involves my luggage….for the traveling my family will be carrying only carry-on bags, but I’ll have my two suitcases for my entire semester in Lund. I’m exploring options of surface mail to Lund, so I just have to carry one suitcase, and that way will just get my winter clothing after I arrive in Lund. Or I can lug around the two suitcases. We’ll see.
