The week that was (#5)

I've found that living in a new country there is so much that is new and unfamiliar, it's impossible to take it all in. I think if I mentally noted every time something suprised me, I'd be exhausted. The first example I noticed of this was very early on in the guesthouse. Someone else asked me if I thought the pillows were strange. I knew that they were big and floppy, but it wasn't until she asked that I realised that this was weird. An example from this week, I went a bar called Waesch Bar (I think that's how you spell it). It was only several hours after I left that I realised that it was very unusual that half the bar was a laundromat.

I am officially enrolled at the University of Potsdam! This means, amongst other things, that I get to use all the public transport in Brandenburg and Berlin for free. This is a good thing, because the buses were costing me a fortune (~nz$3.50 for a bus to town). I took advantage of this and took a trip to a big mall in Berlin where I bought lots of useful but not-very-interesting stuff (eg towels, lamp...).

I'm starting to get into some work in the lab, which is very good, but also quite frustrating at the start because things take 5x longer than they should because you don't know where to find everything. Yea, nah it's all good.

Sorry this hasn't been a very exciting post, I'll try harder next week! I hope you are enjoying the sunshine back home!