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yay! i made it!! i am enrolled at Humboldt Universität in berlin. woohoo...wouldn't have thought that it'd become this...well...that it'd take so much nerves to become a student here. and it wasn't even because of my grades or a limitation to the number of free places...no, just because the german post isn't trustable beyond the most simple tasks anymore. my mother moved and i moved since i applied at Humboldt. my mother paid for the post to forward her mail to her new address (giving her and also my last name for the mail to be forwarded). well, still the post seemed to think that it wasn't enough - after all my first name wasn't mentioned in that forwarding order - so the acceptance letter from the uni was sent back with the indication that i wasn't anywhere to be found...hahaha, bad joke! after i grew increasingly worried (because i gave up a while ago trusting in our post system) i went to the enrolment office last friday to inquire when the letters would be mailed....i was informed that actually the date for enrolment had already been the previous monday and thus i was too late. because of the f***ing german post. the lady at the uni was so nice to postpone my deadline a couple of days and today it was made: i became student of Humboldt University, which i will probably remain for approximately the next 2 1/2 to 3 years :Dliebe grüße auch vom Wuschel :o)
after a looooooooooooong long time, i shall write a few lines again. indeed, i thought my whole blogging phase was over since i'm back in berlin, but....well, i heard some rumours that there is someone who'd like me to continue. i will happily do so, because i actually like writing about myself sometimes *hahaha* :Di will stick to the old title - after all our new flat is situated in the east of berlin, just outside the "green zone" (Umweltzone), i.e. outside the boundaries of the S-Bahn-Ring within which only cars labelled with stickers confirming a certain standard of - well, what actually? fact is, only if you buy one of three categories of stickers, you'll be allowed to cross the center of berlin unfined. supposedly, this measure shall reduce the amount of particulate matter (=Feinstaub) in the capital....in any case, if anyone should want to visit us by car, the sticker is evitable, for you may approach our home without crossing this zone. however, you might be confronted with an elevated amount of unhealthy dust...(personally, i don't think there's any difference between central berlin air and the air outside the "zone". by the way: in the times when berlin and germany were splitted in two parts, the former GDR was often called the "zone" - at least by westeners. now, that i live in an area formerly part of the GDR, however, i live outside the new (green) "zone". thought this was kinda funny, when i first realized :-P
so, as for the title of this blog entry: yes, we finally got a new couch for our flat. Eike and i had been looking for one since we moved into our new home in mid-july. yet, we didn't find one that we could afford until last week. thus, you can imagine that we are quite proud to present our new "big sofa", which is truly big and extremely comfortable. at first, it seemed a bit too huge for our averagely sized living room, but now, we just re-arranged everything a bit, so that now we don't have a room with sofa, but rather a sofa with room. :D here're a couple of pictures
it is about 3 m long and 1,5 m wide. hehehe.
i'll add a few more pics from in and around our flat..
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one of our bedroom walls
living room a while ago
one of our (2) balconies and the view from it...
yay! i made it!! i am enrolled at Humboldt Universität in berlin. woohoo...wouldn't have thought that it'd become this...well...that it'd take so much nerves to become a student here. and it wasn't even because of my grades or a limitation to the number of free places...no, just because the german post isn't trustable beyond the most simple tasks anymore. my mother moved and i moved since i applied at Humboldt. my mother paid for the post to forward her mail to her new address (giving her and also my last name for the mail to be forwarded). well, still the post seemed to think that it wasn't enough - after all my first name wasn't mentioned in that forwarding order - so the acceptance letter from the uni was sent back with the indication that i wasn't anywhere to be found...hahaha, bad joke! after i grew increasingly worried (because i gave up a while ago trusting in our post system) i went to the enrolment office last friday to inquire when the letters would be mailed....i was informed that actually the date for enrolment had already been the previous monday and thus i was too late. because of the f***ing german post. the lady at the uni was so nice to postpone my deadline a couple of days and today it was made: i became student of Humboldt University, which i will probably remain for approximately the next 2 1/2 to 3 years :D
