Moved In

So I'm all moved in to my new flat. Like I said before, it's pretty awesome.

Here's my room:

I'm sitting at that desk right now.

It was SO much easier getting my things out of Claire's than it was getting them in - probably since I had the help of Claire and her boyfriend Christian. They drove me to my place and helped me bring up the suitcases.

It was hard trying to sync up with the roommates and get the key and all that (nobody answers their phone here, so I was waiting outside for 40 minutes yesterday waiting for somebody to let me in). Anyway, I'm glad to be settled in and finally have the chance to unpack. This weekend Claire and Christian are going to IKEA, so I'll tag along and maybe pick up some random furniture or household things.

My TEFL / TESOL course is pretty maneagable. I'm just doing one unit a day which takes about four hours and is a little tedious but not very difficult yet. The course alternates between grammar and teaching methods. When I finish the course in early September I can start looking for work.

I have to open a German bank account tomorrow - it's pretty hard to do anything without one. I'll get slammed with that pesky exchange rate, but so it goes. That way I can pay my rent and utilities online, set up my cell phone, etc. It's good I'm planning on working before too long because there's a lot of expenses here, and I do hate spending a lot of money if I'm not making any.

So I'm thinking about taking a vacation before I start my language classes - German Wings has this thing called "Blind Booking" which is pretty cool - basically, you pay about €40 for a round trip plane ticket from Stuttgart (which is a short train from Tübingen) to a mystery city. There are about a dozen potential cities you might be visiting, all quality places (Athens, Barcelona, Istanbul, Reykjavik, etc.) and when you recieved your email confirmation, you find out which one you're flying to. I'd probably take about a four day trip, stay in a hostel or couchsurf or something. What do you think?

That's all I got.

Here's the view out the window of my apartment: