So – the first week (at least of the introduction course) is over – I’m doing pretty well. I’ve registered with the police and the college, I’ve got the right to move freely around Germany, I’ve opened a bank account and sorted out student-tickets for the transport system. I’ve even bought a new phone! (Ok, only a SIM-card, but still.)
My phone is pretty cool – while I’m within 500m of my apartment, it works as a landline. I have a landline number, and when I call people, it costs me the same as if I’d callen from a landline. (Actually, because of an ‘extra’ I also bought, it costs me nothing to ring German landlines, or German O2 mobiles when I’m in my ‘Homezone’.) If I’m outside that, and someone rings my landline number, it just goes to my voicemail – which I can pick up for free when I get back into my Homezone, or if I think it’s urgent, I can pick up (and pay for the mailbox-call) as soon as I notice.
A bunch of us had planned to do the 3rd Reich Tour of Munich this evening, but unfortunately we read the “What’s On” wrong, so that didn’t work out in the end. It sounds interesting tho, so I’ll probably do it sometime during the week. It’s a bit weird writing in English – I’ve been speaking so much German, that it’s hard to remember all the rules of English!
I’ve also spent a while going through the list of available lectures – there’s plenty that I’m looking forward to doing! Tomorrow is shopping-day, in the Olympia-Einkaufzentrum (probably mostly window-shopping – I don’t need anything, and the only things I’m vaguely on the lookout for are a few posters, and a clothes-horse), but otherwise it’ll be a quiet weekend – take it easy, euch! 