I feel that the blog about diving is not current any more. I have a new job and with that comes a new life and a new blog 
I will write in Swedish from now on at http://maltablogg.spotlife.se but for the readers that are not swedish I will give you the google translate widget so you can still follow me and my family here in Malta.
Over and out.
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OK, life is back to normal. We have routines now – breakfast, school, homework, playtime, dinner, bath, some TV and bedtime . It is nice actually, I am enjoying the days and so are the kids!
Even though Dante doesn’t like the fact that they split the classes and gave them new teachers he is now getting into it more and more. This coming Saturday we are going home to a friend from the old class, he is longing! I am pretty sure he has a crush on her haha . A really nice girl!
After school today we went down with Raya to the cliffs just downstairs the school and the kids played for 2 hours in the nice autumn sun. You can really feel the difference now, the sun is not killing you any more .
Tomorrow is the third day of school and since even I have got used to going up at 09.00 am, I am off to bed. The alarm is set on 06.00…
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We have spent the morning watching barbie movies and playing with my princess’s new doll house
Little Arijeta likes to get full attention – quality time with mum is not happening every day and suddenly we have a whole week!
Now it is time to eat lunch and then go to school to pick up big brother. She have been asking for him since we left him. I bet when he is back home the fighting starts again, siblings…
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How beautiful isn’t this…
I am so lucky to live here and there is not even one day I regret my decision to move to Malta for good.
This is where I belong
Now morning coffee at the balcony…
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Today was the day , both me and Dante woke up early – it was time for school! After 13 weeks of beach visits it was time for everyday life again.
I was so nervous that Dante would start crying since he is going to have a new teacher and will not be able to speak to her, his English isn’t that good yet. It was nice to meet a new Danish friend of Dante on the way to school, he might start in Dante’s class. At least I hope so, then they can support each other.
We came to school and he directly saw his school mates and ran up to them happy – mummy was now feeling a lot better! He waved at me to go and so we did, at 13.45 I am going to pick him up again. Until then me and my princess are going to have a nie time together. Quality time!
00My son is very shy when it comes to speaking English. He only speaks if he knows that the word is correctly said. Like hello, bye bye etc. He started to speak Swedish when he was 2 years old. During 2 years he picked everthing up and one day he just started speaking non stop!
Therefore it doesn’t matter how much I push him. I let him watch English cartoons but he needed something more. Something that would help him at school…
I saw a lot of coloured pencils, paper, ruler and scissor and thought that I would do an alphabet game for him. It ended up being a huge project since I thought it was so fun! I have soon done all of the letters with a picture in the middle so he can see the connection between big and little A .
On the back I wrote the numbers which have the same colours as the letters. So A has number 1 and as well a. So if he can’t figure out where the little letter is he can compare the numbers .
He can’t wait to get going , what do you think?
+10Yes! In only one week my big boy starts Year 2. Here in Malta they change teacher every year (at least at my son’s school), I don’t know if it is good or bad? When I went to school in Sweden we had the same teacher from year 1 -3, second teacher year 4-6 and a third teacher year 7-9. I think it made me feel a bit more secure at school, but haven’t tried any other ways so let’s see how this works .
Dante is very excited to start school and today we went to the shop to buy all the stuff that are required to have the first day. Just take a look at this, it is crazy! On total it ended with 120 euro, which is quite much if you see people earning 900 euro a month here in Malta 
. Then on top of that they have a school uniform that cost the same! The child allowance here in Malta start with 350 euro/child and year. So all Swedes, do not complain about our allowance which is about 125 euro/month!
(“Am I going to read all this, Oh my G…” )
Then of course Arijeta, who is in K2 (the year before real schoolstart) needs some stuff as well. Not as bad as Dante but still it will cost about 30-40 euro. She loves pink, can you notice? 
(Proud as one can be)
Now it is lunch time and I still have no idea what to eat, maybe the kids would enjoy having a Maltese pastizzi?
+30Today I woke up happy, the sun is shining and it is quite warm weather – beach time! I woke the kids up and told them the good news.
“We don’t want to go to the beach… it is kind of boring when you have been there everyday for 2 month know, mummy!”
Hm… well well, no beach today then . What is wrong with my kids? I did not think they would get Maltese so quickly. In just one week they start school and tomorrow I will show you all the stuff one need to buy here in Malta before school starts. Pencils, books, folders, notebooks, glitter glues, colouring book etc. But the school itself is free for EU members so I am not complaining. I am glad that I bought their school uniforms a bit big beacuse they are having the same clolours this term.
Do you want to read about the kids first day in school, click here.
They look so tiny, don’t they? They have grown a lot since 27th of February and now my son will start 2nd grade and my little one K2.
So no beach today… we will spend the day building a tent in the livingroom and give the doggie a bath and then chase her all over the appartment haha . After that I guess that I have to spend the rest of the evening cleaning the house after the tent project. But if the kids are happy, then I am the same .
Have a nice Wednesday everyone!
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Today we took a nice long walk to Melita Salina Gardens in Qawra/Bugibba. First I went to the Job Center to get my Social Security number. It only took a minute and the woman was so nice to me and she gave me a lot of information about my rights here in Malta now when I have this number .
After that, because the kids had behaved so good at the jobcenter, we walked to the Melita Salina Gardens. They played for hours and hours, running around at the lawn haha. I think they miss that from Sweden were we have them everywhere…
Then we went to the supermarket to fill the fridge up. After the shopping we actually took the bus home instead of the 30 minute walk back, the kids were really tired. A busticket a whole day here in Malta is about 1.50 euro (2.60 if you don’t have a Maltese ID card) so it’s not that bad .
For dinner we had Tacos which is the kids’ favourite food and then the movie The Nutcracker with some snacks and the evening became perfect .
Tomorrow I think we will go to the beach if the weather allows it… today it was “only” 29 degrees Celisus and a bit cloudy.
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We have started to train Raya to behave and the results are really good so far . She is still behaving like a puppy even though she is soon 2 years old. It has to stop, she gets so excited that she stops listening to what I tell her.
Other than that we have just stayed at home, watched a movie or two and just had a nice time together!
Boring but true – there is a problem uploading photos today! Photos from today can be seen on my instagram: sunny_diving
See you there!
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