Here I am now in my third full week in Germany, still not working and still on the hunt for a flat. However, I am keeping busy. This week I have found the local cinema and seen Das A-Team. They do a Ladies Night once a month. For August (tomorrow night), it's letters to Julia and the one I'm really excited about in September, is Eat, Pray, Love. So I am managing to add to my film list without shelling out a fortune for DVDs and also improving my German at the same time. My host, Nathalie, introduced me to a good way to improve my German last night which is to watch the Cosby Show in English and German to pick up new vocab! What a great idea! It's years since I watched that show and it's hilarious how dated the fashions look already. What a blast from the past!
Also yesterday, I managed to cross another one off my 30 before I am 30 list by joining a French class. I really want to make the most of it if I am to sit my AS Level this year, I need to. Although, having all of this time off to get paperwork sorted, I don't know if they will let me out for exams too. I guess I will cross that bridge when I come to it.
At the weekend I bought a Bahncard on special offer since it was the anniversary (175 years) of rail travel in Germany. This means I can get reduced price rail tickets for travel all over Germany so I am planning a trip to see my friend Amira in Aachen next month and get the travel bug back.
Later this week I am going to be meeting the rest of the teachers on this native speaker programme which will be nice. So far I only know Linda and she is lovely so hopefully, I will get to know some more nice people to spend time with and hopefully also practice my Spanish with as one is a native Spanish speaker.
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