news: something i have only just learned: in germany apartments are typically rented without kitchens. thatistosay that when you rent the apartment, it has kitchen connections but no kitchen appliances connected to the kitchen. strange.
however: according to sarah, it is becoming more and more common to rent apartments with kitchens in, which is less immediately frightening. i can’t really understand how this is logical or efficient. i suppose thisway one avoids the sad lonely unbeautiful kitchenpieces that come with old apartments, but it seems like it might add some slight expenses onto our grand project (moving to berlin)
sarah and anna arrived today via zug! (train). it was suddenly very bright and full and noisy here: a sudden diversion. it has been sort of as though something was missing without them. thisevening we went to a really interesting streetcarnival that was sort of like a cross between a fair and a fleamarket, and i got really nice sunglasses. anna also. we look very awesome and also very fantastic. (see picture).
phil became a professional street performer: we came out of the shop and saw him sitting on the sidewalk playing his newly acquired harmonica-flute-device and it was altogether and immediately hilarious and good. i feel better about berlin now that at least one of us has some sort of professional income. sarah bought this romertopf and will probably make quasidelicious foods full of dead animals inside of it.
as of this moment: still no job, but as this is only the end of my first week and really the end of only a few days of semiserious looking, i suppose it is mostly ok. being myself i am getting somewhat panicky regarding nonjob status: i would really like one, really. . . i have, however, great hopes. also, i’ve been realizing lately how i do really want to go back to school. practically everyone i know is studying or about to be studying for more important degrees and i feel a sort of sadness because i think i would do so much better thistime: i mean to say that having lived outside of school for awhile, i would appreciate it somewhat more. and i think it would be fun. maybe nextyear. i think. at the moment it’s sort of financially unfeasible, especially since phil has to go to languageschool to stay legal and it’s not exactly cheap.
plans for the immediate future: we might be traveling to berlin at some point over the next few days to stay with a friend of sarah’s and to jobsearch/etc. in person, which i suppose will probably be an adventure. also i think we might try to go to bohn to the german history museum for the day so that phil can feel more informed. it’s very interesting to see german history from a nonamerican perspective.
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