Where are you from, and what brought you here?

[sweetaud]

I'm Faith (it is the 2nd of my 3 christian names but the one I've always been called by), fair, fat and forty....well fat and forty anyway ;D

I moved to the States when I was 18 and lived there until July of last year when I moved here. I met my husband via an email he sent me in November 1998. We started talking by email, then by phone and then he flew out in Febuary 1999 to see me. We got married March 2002 and I made the big move a few months later in July.

I'm not certain Sweden is for me, even that I don't mind it. It's boring, and that's the problem. It's a lovely country physically but other than that it doesn't have the umph for me. My husband thinks that the sun rises and sets in Gothenburg alone, so I guess we are probably here for the long haul. I know already I don't want to retire here though. I'd prefer to do that in southern Europe where the sun is.

[angiebaby]

Hej!
I'm Angela, turning 32 next week! I am from Malaysia (ethnically Indian) and have been here since June '03. A former journalist now SFI student in Bromma. Met my viking on the Internet in Malaysia where he was on assignment.
We thought it was strange that there were two lonely people of different nationalities meeting on the Internet, 5km away from each other!
He was still recovering from losing his late wife to breast cancer,sudden loneliness and depression when I met him. Its been hard getting over the "other woman" looming over us but we have gone a long way since we met in Oct 2001.
He is older than me but it feels so right I couldn't care less about how unconventional our relationship looks to strangers. I have no kids but my viking has two. His son is expecting his second child anytime this week.

The decision to come here was mainly because he finished his contract with the company in Malaysia & I had never met his family or been to Sweden and I felt terribly disturbed by the whole situation. He was so scared of how the family would react and his kids were cold to him.
We decided the only way to deal with this was to be HERE. Face me, know me before you dismiss me as another Asian money hungry...yadda yadda.

I was eager to be included in the family and still am. I am very positive about being a member of this family and tried my best to show them that I care, I am here for their father and good for him. His relationship with the kids has improved and his daughter's boyfriend actually told me she thought I was a good influence on him.

I'm in SFI now and really enjoying the classes and the chance to meet people of various nationality and backgrounds at one place.
I've about 25,000 words into my novel about Sweden and just got writer's block recently. But I hope to finish it and maybe self publish it or at least put it in the web.

Edited to say that I live in Bromma, Stockholm and open for a fika or something.

[angiebaby]

Faith---- how the heck do you get the picture in? I keep trying to upload the pic but it doesnt register