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I've gained myself a standard 20 something fresh out of uni job as an office assistant in a tech start up. Not bad for an arts graduate if you ask me. I have somewhere to live, although it took me 3 months to find it. Turns out, getting a job is the easy part in Berlin, actually finding somewhere to live is another story. I have theories that the reason people are homeless here isn't because they don't have job, but the fact there isn't enough space for all the people who live here. My flat is in the heart of Berlin which I share with a wonderful lady whom I've had the great fortune of meeting. The flat is old, quirky, small and on the top floor of an apartment block without a lift. You'd think after about 4 months of climbing the stairs I'd be fit as a fiddle, but no. I still have to take a puff of my inhaler when I reach the top. We also have no internet and no washing machine. In fact as I write this I'm in a Waschsalon cafe enjoying some internet and getting my panties cleaned. TWO IN ONE WOOP WOOP! A part from all those draw backs, I do enjoy living there and it has provided some great socialising due to the fact we have more chairs than space. No seriously! It's scary how many chairs we've ended up with!
The flats location is very central, which has its pluses and minuses. My street is beautiful with a lot of character and history, but turn at the conner at the end of the street and you can witness the herds of tourist cattle everywhere! And after 9 o'clock, weather it be raining, snowing, or in the middle of a thunder storm, I'm all the sudden in Berlin's Red light district. BUT SERIOUSLY it is a nice place to live.
Well anyway, here are the highlights of the last 6 months
- Moved to Berlin (duh)
- Got a new job
- Lived with 2 cats for while (I won't lie, I really didn't like them)
- Did ALOT of moving both in personal life and work!
- Got a flat and a flatmate
- learned more German words
- Have had serval wonderful visitors
- Master tourist of Berlin!
- There was lots of snow, then summer arrived and there was lots of mossy bites!
- Swam in a lake, got a tick bite
- Water boiler broke = No hot water for a week!
- Bought a bike (not as beautiful as my university bike though)
- Didn't get burnt once during summer.
- Drank a lot of beer
- Learned how to open a beer with a lighter, yet to master it though.
- Started drinking tea
- Learned how to cook falafel!
- Gained some friends
- Said goodbye to some friends :(
- Did karaoke in German
- Went to the Dentist and got my teeth cleaned (first time in 4 years FYI)
- Wrote a new blog.
- And of course, given into the Berlin Hipster Fad.
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