The trip - day 2

Thursday
Today started with a 9am meeting with the HR lady who is looking after our move to Sweden. She was really helpful and answered a lot of our questions about all the things we need to do, as well as giving us a fistful of forms to fill in. Still need to go through all those, but we can't do them until we arrive anyway, and fortunately I'm fairly sure we won't be on our own.
Then we had a 10am meeting at a nearby school. It was very different to here, for a start they have no school uniforms, and it also seems to be less structured than we are used to. Can't be a bad thing though as the Swedish education system has such a good reputation. The class that RP will be joining will be a normal class with Swedish children, but the teacher is actually English and is accustomed to teaching international students. She was really nice and set our minds at rest over several issues. As they don't start school till 7 over there, RP will be joining a grade 2 class with children a year or 2 older than she is so she won't have to start right back at the beginning but should still be able to cope with the schoolwork at the same time as learning the language. I'm hoping she learns it fast too so she can help me out! We are going to be having language and culture lessons, but I don't have much faith in my ability to pick it up anywhere near as fast as the girls!
Then we nipped down to McDonalds for lunch (much posher than the ones here, and with a lovely view down the river, although the food was the same) before heading back to the office to meet the lady who was going to show us round the apartment. This is a company apartment that is fully furnished and we can have for as long as we need it (until we find somewhere of our own to buy). An apartment wouldn't be our first choice to live in but this will be just fine on a temporary basis and has enough rooms for us all which is a bonus!
Then we went to have a look at some houses we'd seen on hemnet.se just to get an idea of what was available in our price range, and what the neighbourhoods were like, followed by a visit to some supermarkets (very important). D had a meeting with his new boss at 5pm so dropped RP and I back at the hotel. Unfortunately I was hit with a migraine so had to go to bed whilst D and RP went to look at a house that had been offered to us for rent by a colleague. They said it was lovely, and whilst we would prefer to live in a house, I think we've decided to stick with the apartment as the house is only available till Christmas and we don't want to put any pressure on ourselves to find somewhere else. I'd much rather take my time and find the right house in the right location.
After checking on me, they went off to a little pizzeria for tea where RP was most impressed by 'Swedish' pizza and said it was much nicer than the pizza we have here.