Thursday, October 2, 2008

Day two in Gothenburg

Our second day in Gothenburg should start at 9 in the morning. At least that was the plan when we went to bed last night. At 10:30 we were finally up for breakfast. After ham and eggs and the research where all the needed places for today are located we finally started.
Todays agenda was
- getting a personummer at the local tax office
- transfering our rent to the landlords bankaccount
- buying some stuff at IKEA
- paying a visit at Baushaus
- and maybe check out a bit more of Gothenburg

But as it turned out we should be done faster then expected. Our gps navigated us very precisely to the tax office. But the tax officed moved to a different location in town. Noone updated the webpage.Good job guys! Fortunately it was only a 10 minute walk and a lot of swedish people helped us to find it. When we finally arrived a very friendly guy at the entrance of the tax office who looked more like the trainer in a local gym helped us to find the correct persons at the tax office. A really good invention which makes stuff a lot easier. We should get one of those in Germany... . So far so good. Getting the personummer was very unbureaucratic compared to a german agency. The only downside was that we cant get a real personummer because we arent staying long enough in sweden but a temporary personummer will be send to us in the next 2 or 3 weeks.
The second stop for today was at swedbank to transfer the rent to our landlords bankaccount. Thats where the trouble started. Each of us wanted to withdraw 5000 KR (about 500 euro) to deposit it on the landlords account (direct transfer is not possible yet because we need a personumemr for that). But my ec-card didnt work and the bancomat refused to give me any money. Fortuntaelly we had enough money left to pay the rent. Since only Jonnay and Sebbo were able to withdraw money we are a bit low on money now we had to cancel the rest of our plans. All we can do for the moment is waiting for the next day until Jonny can withdraw antoher 5000KR from his bankaccount. But there is still some Carlsberg beer left...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hallo Ihr Schweden,


viele Grüße aus München. Ich wusste gar nicht, dass es in Schweden auch IKEA gibt...
Macht der TUM Ehre und zeigt denen dort oben, was ein richtiger deutscher cand.-Ing. ist.

Viele Grüße
Michael