We arrived in Berlin on Sunday at about 8 pm. We were supposed to get a mattress from a girl that was moving house, and she had promised to keep her mattress for us. But when we called her, she said she'd supposedly sent us a message saying that the mattress was sold, which she surely didn't. After stating that, she hung up on us. Really rude! Luckily Berlin is a big city, so after checking out the eBay ads we got another mattress, a brand new one and for only 25 euros. I slept well that night.
The beautiful view onto the yellow fields taken from the car on the way to Berlin.
My flat is situtated in Charlottenburg, which is amazing because my job is there as well. It is as so called "altbau", which is either an old house or a house built in a special way. These houses are mostly caracterized by brick walls, wooden ceilings and special windows. The rooms are also very high, at least 3 meters. These houses have their pros and cons just like any house, but I love the high rooms and big windows, and the wide window panes are also amazing. The cons are for example that the heating is not very up to date and showering can be from hell. I found that my apartment is handling these thing quite well though.
My room.
The kitchen.
The apartment has two bedrooms, a long hallway, a big kitchen and a quite roomy bathroom. My room has two big windows, a wooden floor and it is completely furnished. One of the walls are light blue, the other one has a printed wall paper, which I totally love! I have a big bed, one huge closet, a desk, a chest of drawers and a couple of wall shelves - everything one could need. I was very lucky to get such an amazing apartment at the good price that I did. I really like it here!
My amazing wallpaper!
Yesterday I started my internship at the translation office 4-Text. Berlin greeted my of my first day with a cold wind and rain. When I after what felt like a endless bike ride I found the office. My boss started of by showing me the office, which is the entire top floor of the building. He also introduced me to the project management teams and some of the translators. After the tour I was given a test translation (German-Finnish). My day went on with getting to know the translation program Felix 4, which has a updated version: Felix 5, but some for some customers the translations are still made with the older program. The afternoon I spent with one guy from my project management team (Team E). He showed me all the project management programs (there are MANY). At this point it was already 5 pm and I'd been at the office for good 7 hours. By the way, I am allowed to manage my own working hours, it's just important that I'm there at least partly at the same time as my team or my supervisor. So that's super!
I finished my first day with some grocery shopping. My flat mate came with me to show me where the grocery stores are. I got some flowers for my room and the did what I love to do when I'm in Germany: I bought bread from the bakery! Yum!
The bathroom.
Today I was supposed to register myself as a Berlin resident and get a tax number. Late last nigth I realized that the citizen centre doesn't open until 11, so I decided to go tomorrow instead at 8 am sharp. Oh boy, that will be a early morning! This morning I go myself a ABC-ticket, which means that I can use the metro, the tram and the bus unlimited in all three zones of Berlin. At the counter where I was getting the intern id-card the I had an interesting experience. The man was quite nice, he seemed a bit bored. I gave him my papers and a passport photo for the id-card. When he tried to attach the photo on the card the machine somehow broke down and the he startd cursing. He turned around and got scissors with which he tried to fix the problem. After realizing that I was not fixable he started cursing again, and very loudly. I though, what will come next, will he start yelling at me? But no, he turned to me and said calmly and with an apologizing smile: "I'm sorry, my maschine broke down. Can you go the other counter?" It was very funny but kinda scary at the same time. Well, most the important thing is of course that I got the id-card thing taken care of.
Today at work was pretty similar as yesterday. First a test translation, English-Finnish this time. Then learning more project management, which I find quite interesting. There's just a lot of programs that I have to learn to manage, before I can manage the projects. In the afternoon I made a translation with Felix 5 and I think I'm starting to get the hang of how the program works. It is actually not that complicated, I just have to learn the shortcuts. I finished off at 4.30 pm, after which I made a small tour in the centre of my part of the city, Charlottenburg.
The main street of Charlottenburg is Wilmersdorfer Strasse, which is partly a walking zone. On this street there's most shops that you need including a shopping mall with all the main clothing shops and more. I got myself a ergonomic pillow at JYSK, which, for those of you who doesn't know, is an international retail chain that sells 'everything for the home'. It is originally from Denmark but the name of the shop is different in different countries. Anyways I'm excited to go to sleep tonight just to try the pillow. I got myself a summer dress as well, so please let the weather get warmer soon!
My friend the owl in the bathroom. Wonder if he has a name... Hmm...
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