It's hard to put your trust fully on someone's hand, even though he's the man u love. But, I made my choice to reside in Sweden for the next 4 years of my live, thanx to this man...my dear husband! and, this happened to be the best choice ever! I love Uppsala, a town which I never heard before, and I love the environment, the people and the system. Alhamdulillah, our journey to this place seems much easier than we thought. My baby girl has already reached 16 months, and she is so....friendly! Well, I think that is from her father's side, and other personalities too; brave, cheerful, focused, calm... Hmm, where's my personality in her? Maybe, full of smiles and happy faces to offer to everyone?
One place which makes me happy everytime we pay a visit (and shop) there; the Vaksalatorg open market. I can get cheap things there, from clothes to household items, even a brand new dress which the owner sells coz she mistakenly picked the wrong size! Well, u know...leaving in a country where almost everything is expensive, buying used things is perfectly a better choice. The tip is to find things which is less than a year old, or look new. No one can tell that it has been used before (well, at least I can't), hehehehee...
Finally, we found a mini baby stroller for Nabeeha to play with at the market. Costs us only 100 kronor. I can't help myself from buying things for Nabeeha each time we go there . Baby clothes still look brand new, with no stains whatsoever...and costs us only 5 to 10 kronor each. So cheap compared to the ones in the store (60 kronor and above). And I finally have to accept to learn how to wear a hijab, in a fancy, Arabic way, coz no tudung bawal sold here! My husband said that I look nice in that style, and that gives me confidence to try putting on the new styles.
But I still miss home. Though the temperature sometimes reach 40 degrees over there in Malaysia, I still prefer to be home. It's cold here, but summer is very nice. Today might be the beginning of a nice wheather ahead. I'm kinda surprised coz I found out that I hate snow. Being covered in snow is one of my dream, but when greeted with thick, heavy snow, plus a minus 15 degree snowstorm, and a long....winter, I realized that I don't want to be in that situation again. I even think to fly away to Malaysia each time the snow reaches the lowest temperature in the future, but with a RM25,000 return flight ticket for the 3 of us, I do not dare to think about going back home within this first year.
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