To-Do-List

I have prepared enormously for my adventure to help me relax before it and avoid to feel worried. If anyone of you guys plan to move abroad, here follows a looooong check-list way to long if you're not in the target group for this list. At least, this is the things I've done. 

So, this is a To-do-list with all the things I could have possibly thought of before I leave for my adventure. Print it out if you feel like you'll need it some day. (Not in a special order.) 

• Look for matching scholarships, write, print papers, post it!
  

• Look for e-books to download
  

• Make sure to get/apply for CoE (called in Australia) from your school to be, and pay the deposit fee
  

• Recommendation letter for job
  

• Recommendation letter for living
  

• Print papers that could be good to show when I look for a place to live
  

• Apply for Visa
  

• Make a copy of passport
  

• Make a list with important numbers, like passport, credit card and blocking number, insurance, addresses, family members, embassy,
  

• Print insurance papers
  

• Apply for CSN
  

• Buy flight ticket – look closely for the cheapest one
  

• Start packing a long time ahead, to make sure you don't pack anything unnecessary
  

• Collect paper to be printed (of you don't own any) and print them some days before you leave
  

• Confirm your flight tickets /Online check-in
  

• Book hostel before you go. I got the advice not to decide for an apartment before you are in the new country since it is easy to be tricked.
  

• Weigh your bag carefully before you go
  

• Make contact with people of you can, before you go. Make people know that you're going and your friends may probably know someone.
  

• If your bank card takes a charge when you take out money, I suggest you chose a bank with now extra fees, like ICA banken, if you come from Sweden. Also, when you are in your new country, a good tip is to also get a card from a bank in your new country
  

• Exchange money
  

• To get extra money before you go, and to get rid of unnecessary stuff, try to sell stuff you will not need anymore
  

• I have decided for no one to give me a ride to the airport, I would cry much worse and also I more easily see this as my adventure, I can do it for myself!
  

• Write your flight times down at a paper and save it in your pocket/ the “purse” you have under your sweater with all the other important documents
  

• Make sure you don't need a health certificate in order to be granted a Visa
  

• To avoid as much as possible expensive medical visits, make sure you for example check your teeth in your home country etc.
  

• Air-compressor-plastic bags
  

• One backup for the documents on your computer to be saved in your home country and one small one to be taken with you to the new country.
  

• One USB-stick with the most “private” documents/papers
  

• Digitalize your life! Documents, inspiration cutouts from newspapers, cd's, movies, everything, and get rid of the rest (länk till Zen). Photograph them
  

• What will you do with all the post you get?
  

• How'll you do with your phone?
  

• Look/read about areas in your new town that will suit you to stay in