I promised a blog a while ago, so here it goes! This blog is meant to keep people informed of my goings-on while galavanting in Munich. For reference: galavanting = drinking and making fun of Germans. My apologies to those of you who have already heard the stories of our first month. If you don't want to read them again, I'd skip toward the bottom of this post.
We arrived in Munich on August 1, and immediately moved in to our unfurnished apartment. Unfurnished means literally that you have NOTHING when you move in. No lights, no kitchen sink, no oven, no nothing. Our first order of business was to obtain lights so we would at least feel like we're living in a developed country.
SPEAKING of developed countries, when we moved in, we had no washer and dryer so I was washing our clothes in the bathtub, naturally, and drying them on our balcony. Our sweet old upstairs neighbor lady saw me doing this and yelled at me, in broken English, "We live in Germany, not the Congo!" So I cried, of course. Since then, we've obtained a FREE washer and dryer from a nice couple from Seattle. A few days after the Congo incident, we received a call from our landlord informing us that our downstairs neighbors had called to complain about how we didn't recycle our styrofoam in the mysterious yellow bin I knew nothing about. Not only did they call our landlord instead of talking to us about it, they dug through our trash and took out the styrofoam and placed it in front of our door. What helpful neighbors! I can't wait for the block party.
All cynicism aside, Germany really is a great country. I am very fortunate to be living here, and I like knowing that I could never really be bored. There is an entire continent at my fingertips to be explored. Jason and I just went to Italy for his birthday this past weekend and stayed at an amazing hotel in the middle of wine country. We are already planning our weekend trips and it's very exciting.
We've got our first visitors arriving tomorrow, and in a couple weeks we've got more visitors coming. We still have no light fixtures, just bare lightbulbs hanging from the ceiling. Also, we have no kitchen so it's going to be room-temperature food for our guests. It's like staying in a shabby-chic boutique hotel!
Ok that's the end of my first post, stay tuned!
