... we sat next to Marina and ate Maras Icecream!

Ohhh Hooo, so funny!

Gökhan just told me that he won over both Kenan and Serkan in backgammon! Serkan got mad and just left, like always.  

Serkan who is the best backgammon player?

Does Gökhan really win on just luck?

I dont think so!

Yes now I have a full time job year around!

Feels good, to be able to have some safe point in life. They even said yes to let me go to Mersin now the 10 may for a week to sign on out wedding papers, also they give off in october when we are planing our wedding party. What a fantastic job I have!! And if this was not enough ... they will let me to stay in the hotel the 2 first weeks for no costs! Lovely!!

Its a lux hotel so that mean nice calm days and great service! You dont have to stress them to finish food and just serv them wines that can cost up over 10 000 sek.

Yeah this is gonna be good, I can fee it!

Well then I sit here again in my room on Gotland and I have mucho mucho to do! But nothing I can do about until tomorrow when I have called the work I got interview for. They want me to start next week but its much things that needs to be fixed like apartment, but they will help me to find one and the first weeks I could stay at their hotel. But I have been out looking alittle on internet and I got two answer already.

Also I have to think about Gökhan and our relationship, I absolutelly dont want to be without him this summer, not after our hard army time! So I have to call work say I get the job if I am able to go to Mersin for 1 week now in may so Gökhan and I can do the sign on to be married. I also have to tell work that I at least have to be off one month before our wedding party in october. If they will agree on this then I seriously have to get apartment or room to start with.

I also have to fix all papers that we need for signing. And on Turkish Embassy it says we need "Marriage Certificate, impediments and birth certificate with parents' names issued by the tax office in Sweden. These documents must be provided with marginal note by the Swedish notary. Subsequently, they translated into Turkish in Sweden or in Turkey." So its some things to do.

Even Gökhan have lots of things to do, he has to fix passport to be able to even apply for recidence interview. He also have to book apointment at goverment house for the sign on. He has to fix papers from army that he have dont it, family papers, maybe extra passport photos and so on ...

After signing we will have to start the long recidence trip, I dont look forward to that. Its gonna be a hard time! And probably when we are geting OK from embassy summer probably is over and its time to go to Mersin for wedding party.

So I guess we will have to be apart this summer after all ...

In my luggage this morning I found this wonderful letter!

What a fantastic husband I got! But it make me miss him even more ...

First of all I had a terrible trip. First plan from adana was great, plenty of place to move and a great pilot. Second flight from Istanbul 2 kids tried to steal from my bag and hiting me' what the parents did? - NOTHING!!

At the plan it was cool until we got close to Sweden and all kids started to scream that YEAH NOW WE ARE HOME .. but the thing is it was so bad weather whish made the plan so shaky, it was really like we were gonna be crashing and people was screaming and praying.

For me it was so bad for my stomach, I have not been writing about it here but I have had so high pain in my stomach the last 2 weeks! What I eat comes out running and it becouse more painfull for everyday. At the plan when it was turbulence my stomach hurted like never before and the problem had started so it didnet just want to come out in one way, no it wanted to come up too. The man next to me understod something was wrong so he asked for water to people around and he told them to wait so I could come of little earlyer and he wanted to help me with bags. Thats how a gentelman does and thats how foraighn are, helping to other people before them self.

Everything went fine and I got my bag, bought my train ticket and got down and had luck that the train was already there and I got to centralstation in no time. Sat there and waited for an hour until my friends came and we went to drink coffe and talk, talk and talked. So nice to talk to someone that can understand you and your own culture!

When we were gonna go to the trainstation everything was standing still and had been doing seen 16 and we were there at 18.

The information we got was that the station did not have ANY ELECTRICITY, so we ran to find a bus but all buses was full until 21.30 and it was not even sure to make it for that bus. So we desided to take a bus back to airport and from there take another bus to my friends apartment.

We came home here around 21.30 and my stomach was in great pain! I went to bed could not sleep woke up at midnight and got a pill from my friend and it maid my stomach relax and I could finally sleep.

At 7 I woke up and for the first time I dont have to run to toilet in the first 5 min. Thanks to that pill I got!

At this morning I have been eating my last pogaca and waiting eveyone in the apartment to wake up. I have called my dad to make sure he will pick me up at boatstation and he told me my stiffmum is gonna be at the boat too and she have cupe so I will be able to sleep there with here. And the weather is still bad so the boat will maybe not go.

I have been talking to Gökhan which is already siting in cafe and loves his freedom from me when all I do is thinking about my interview and that life pretty much suck in Sweden!

WELCOME TO SWEDEN KRISTIN! OR NOT!!!

This day have been full of packing and fixing. My bag is almost full and I dont know if I should bring more clothes back to Sweden or not. Everything depends on if I am gonna get a job or not. If I dont get one I will be back here in 5 weeks as planned.

Todays funniest thing was when we went to look at two hotels that we could be able to have our wedding. One is just 500 meter from our house and the other one is in downtown. They kind of offer the same things and for same money, now we are just trying to get the best deal. One of our friends are gonna get married in the hotel close to downtown so Gökhan will meet up with her and they will go there to see if something could be done to the price.

This are the two places we went to

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Which one do you think is the best one??

This hotel is 500 meter from out house and cost 17 TL per person. Ps. Its not gonna be outside like on photo.

This one is in downtown and cost 18 TL per person.

Dede just came home from friday pray and on his way home he bought fresh almond. Turks normally eating this just how it is or with little salt.

Its so good!