Application for Accomodation in Lund, Sweden
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
I finally applied for an accomodation online. I have been put off by the fact that I need to navigate on a Swedish website. (Well, not quite; there is a English mirror site. But the main online application still needs to be done in Swedish.) The accomodation admin has sent me a step-by-step mail to navigate through the Swedish site; the problem is that they have changed one of the buttons on the site and "Ansök om bostad" could not be found. In the end I have to bash around the site to find the correct page. These were the words that I clicked:"Uppdatera din bostadsansökan en gång per termin!" Don't you think it is quite (or VERY) different?
I applied for a korridorrum (corridor room) in Sparta and was 9th on the waiting list. (It's not too bad to be the 9th, I was expecting a later queue number.) The monthly rate for the room is 2427 KR (~485 SGD); and for six months of accomodation it will cost me close to 3000 SGD. Compared to the States, I think it is cheap. I remember Bernice telling us that she had to work at a Co-op to get a rate reduction from ~1000 USD to ~300 USD (~510 SGD) in the States. I am checking my NUS mail now, still no news from IRO/ Lund University...
posted byWilliam at 10:57 AM