Hallo!
I have an unexpected day off from my practicum today; Frau Paetzolt emailed me last night to let me know that she is sick so I didn't have to come in. I'm actually grateful because it means I can figure out the way via Bus & Bahn (streetcar) today or over the weekend. Funny enough though, I still woke up at 4:30 and finally got up around 6:30. Aren't time changes fun?
As a kind of funny side note, I had cereal (Muesli - yum!) with milk this morning. Like, milk IN the cereal. Now, you might be thinking "okay, what's the big deal?" I haven't eaten milk in my cereal in at least 10 years (gosh, saying that makes me feel old!). I used to eat it that way, but my mom would make me drink the milk that was left and I thought it tasted GROSS so I was like "I'll show you!" and stopped putting milk in my cereal. And yes, the friends of mine that knew about this gave me lots of crap for it. :) But I knew Muesli can be kind of crunchy (like, Grape Nut / gravel crunchy) so I figured I should soften it a little. It was quite good! (yay random stories that don't matter!)
So anyway...
Yesterday, Frau Paetzolt me up and took me home from the hospital so I didn't have to worry about getting there on my first day, and she actually drove a slightly different way than she usually takes so she could show me where the Bahn would drop me off and how I would walk the rest of the way. Maybe I'll film that walk eventually, or at least take some pictures! At the hospital when we were done for the day, she sat down with me and looked up the official way I'll have to take: first I will take a bus for about 10 minutes then transfer to the Bahn for the rest of the way. When she took me home, she helped me figure out how to buy a Monatskarte (month ticket) for the Bahn and bus system in the city, which I was obviously quite grateful for.
I think she will actually not be at the hospital for a couple days next week, but there are two other music therapists there and we'd already decided my "schedule" for when I could be with each of them, so I will be able to follow them more next week.
This weekend, my roommate Caroline is in Berlin with her friends, so I'm here alone. I'm hoping to get out and explore the city some; I will be going to the bank with my landlord later to get some money out; I'm really grateful that she offered to take me so I could figure things out. I'd looked up how to get there and it didn't seem that hard, but still...I will always take help when it's offered, especially since I don't really know my way around the city yet!
I took the time this morning to film a little apartment tour so you can see where I'm living during my time here. The one thing I meant to mention in the tour but forgot was that I live on the third floor. Normally, I wouldn't say anything, but an interesting tidbit is that we (in America) would say I'm living on the fourth floor: Germans don't count the ground floor (Erdgeschoss) when they count the floors, so you have the ground floor and then one level up is the first floor. I just find that interesting!
I think that is all for now - enjoy the little tour!
Bis bald!
Apartment Tour video
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