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Neue Wohnung = New apartment

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I have been in Germany's most beautiful city for a month now. The time goes so quickly when you are Excel-ing all day.

What do I do in my internship? (I don't think I explained this before)
I work for a company which organises/promotes music concerts.

I enter things into Excel, enter data into our accounting program, pay creditors (it is very interesting to see how much stuff costs!), write bills, translate things from German into English and things from English to German, occasionally ring up English companies, find mistakes in bills we have to pay and ring up the companies to tell them to re-calculate stuff and ect.

The best part is.....I do all of this in GERMAN! My German has improved soooo much and I am really proud of myself. As I am Australian, I have the right to be even more proud of myself because not many Australians can speak 2 languages. Most struggle with English. I sill make mistakes but that's how you learn :smile: It amazes me how the brain learns a new language. I haven't learnt German from a book since high school. Sometimes I will use a word in a sentence and then realise that it is the first time that I have used the word...then I will ask if I used the word correctly and most of the time everything is correct. Most of the time I don't even notice that I am speaking German. I don't have to think about what I am going to say so much anymore, which makes me really happy! However, if some Germans start talking about the government...I wont be saying much!


A month has gone by, that means I have left the couch I was sleeping on and I am now living in another apartment. I am doing a bit of room-sitting for my Favourite German :smile: It's a very nice apartment.

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My apartment and swine flu (which I do not have)

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In Mannheim I lived in an apartment built somewhere between 1970 and 1984 (according to my limited knoweldge of designs and trends). Brown was an 'in' colour back then and the designers used it to the max! My kitchen was brown, my bathroom was brown/yellow and the sofa was brown too. I had a shelf in my room which looked like a bird cage. 320 Euro a month


Welcome to the opposite: My apartment in Hamburg. 300 Euro a month



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In my place

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Welcome to my new home....


Part of my bedroom. Bed and pillow covers from the guy who lives here before, quilt and quilt cover by Ikea, photo by my favourite German.


The bathroom. Unlike other exchange students, I found my place using the internet and do not share a bathroom with 9 other people :D, just 1 other girl


The lounge room, for lounging about. Ahhh now you all know that I have pink slippers and can STALK me!!!


The kitchen: This is where all the food from Aldi* lives :wink:


The espresso cooker and oranges for porridge.


View from my window WOAH, beautiful *wipes away tear*

And that's my place :smile:

*Aldi is a German supermarket, selling a limited range of items at discount prices. A pack of tasty Choc Chip cookies is only 0.89 Euro!! And I eat a pack each week :thumbs:

Today I am going to FRANCE! (well, the town closest to the border, because I can go there for free) Later today, I am returning to GERMANY. Tomorrow, I am getting a lift with a complete stranger to DUESSELDORF *jump jump* :hat:

Friday

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First, has anyone noticed that GOOGLE IS BROKENNNN?! There is a Malware warning and under every search result there is a 'this site may harm your computer' warning. So, who googled, Google and BROKE it? Hmmm...*is scared...looks out window*....Hmm everything looks rather...normal...or is this just a trick?



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Ok, now back to what this post was supposed to be about.

Yesterday I met with Miss V, an Aussie girl from Couchsurfing. We had lunch together in Duesseldorf's Altstadt. It was cool taking to an Aussie again and talking about crazy TV shows and stuff like that :smile: After some curry wurst, we drank some coffee. Then I suggested we go to McDonalds for icecream, which we did. My favourite German finished work early so he met us at McDonalds and from there we walked to the 'Apartment' , a coffee shop in Fürstenplatz.

The Apartment is a really nice place to sit and relax. The furniture there is old and new, there are cool, random lights hanging from the ceiling and they play lounge/chill out music too! I asked the girl working there what the CD was, because I knew ALL the songs that I heard. Turns out it was a CD which I have: Hed Kandi Winter Chill :smile:



Miss V and a German train ticket machine

So, we drank some coffee there and then came back here for some dinner: potatoes, salad and cheese. I made the cheese and it tasted quite good, then My Favourite German added some more ingredients and it tasted even BETTER!

Someone who does not wish to be named washed the salad. Then he/she forgot to empty the water out of the bowl....then someone added some home made salad dressing to the bowl and realised there was still water in the bowl...and so then the salad was kind of watery... We will not talk about this further.

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People, DON'T PANIC! Google is fixed. The world has returned to normal once again, the birds are singing, the sky is slightly blue and Miss Kimbers is eating left over potatoes and cheese with her Favourite German! :smile: Now she is going to take a nap.

Yee Ha...Ho Down...Social!

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On Friday night there was a party thing at the apartment of the Americans. However, their apartment was filled with GERMANS! Their apartment is soooo cool! You can see for so far (they live on the top floor) and if you need to be sick, you can surprise the people down below waiting at the bus stop :wink: I like apartments. I never want to own a lawnmower!


Dodgy photos from the balcony

A German guy I was helping at uni was there too and even remembered me. The best part of my job is when people see me and say 'Hey, I know you... You're that girl who helped me!' :smile:

We played a drinking game called...well I don't know what it was called, but it was with cards. Each card had a meaning and..hmm it's hard to explain. blah blah blah and if you put a card under the tab of the beer can and the can opened, you had to scull ( or ex ex ex ex) the can of beer. Luckily I didn't have to; I would have been sick!

The game that I don't know the name of

Next we played a game called 'Bunny'. It's SOOOO funny! This website explains it and there are photos too!! :D

Then Mr M and Mr C from downstairs arrived and we played a 'Canadian' (?) game named 'Yee-Ha'. Mr M didn't explain the rules to us so it was a bit confusing at first. It's really funny watching 'smart' foreign students yell at 'Yeee Haaaaa' like a cowboy :lol:


Then we ate cake, which I baked for Miss M, as it was her birthday :hat:


Even though it was a packet cake, everyone liked it. Just look at their smiles! P:

Then we went to the pub where we met up with all the other exchange students.


Mr M went to the bathroom and we had to watch his beer. This is a photo of us watching the beer. I'm the green beer-watcher and the other beer watchers are from Bulgaria and Germany


Now it's time to find some food I guess...