Sweden, we’ve found our new home!
The last couple of days we’ve been looking at houses in Newcastle. We booked three showings in advance before we left Sweden. One each on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, so today it’s Thursday and the first day we haven’t been occupied looking at houses. But we decided today that we’re going for the first house that we saw on Monday.
As you can see in the pictures above it’s quite recently renovated, and we’ll have our own bathroom and AC. We’re going to be in a house with 15 other rooms like ours, hopefully we’re going to like it there!
We filled in all the paperwork this afternoon (as shown below) and brought it to the agency’s office in town, our excellent Airbnb host drove us there to hand in the papers. Our application got approved the same afternoon and we’re meeting the real estate agent tomorrow at 10 am to sign the lease. The plan is that we move our stuff there on Sunday, cause on Monday orientation week starts at the University of Newcastle and we’re going on a trip to Port Stephens the entire first day 🙂
Anyway, a lot going on at the moment. We’re really enjoying our first days in Australia. We’ve already tried several typical Australian things that have been on our bucket list. Among others we’ve eaten Vegemite, visited some kangaroos, wombats and koalas and watched a genuine rugby game where New South Wales won! Going to post some pictures of that as well 😉
Feels really good to have the living arrangements almost settled! That was our main focus going into this week. But we’ve gotten so much more out of our first week already. And the weekend isn’t even here yet.
Best wishes / Linnea