I don’t think I had mentioned it before, but today i started an internship at the DAI (German-American Institute). I will be working there one afternoon (four hours a week) for a longer time period (maybe two semesters, or longer), and I’ll be doing culture management and PR (starting with culture/event management). It is unpaid which is why I prefer to do it long-term with few hours each week. I am still working at the bookstore though and I enjoy that as well. The project I am working on at the DAI is an essay contest for high school students which will be held in November. I am so happy I get this chance because it is a field I could picture myself in after graduation.

Classes are good. My Spanish test went alright. I made some stupid mistakes but I can work on those. There are only about four weeks left till finals and it’s hard to believe this semester is coming to an end already. It feels like it just started yesterday but the summer semester always seems short, while the winter semester drags on forever.

I have been reading a lot more lately. I discovered the library here and it is an inexpensive (free) way to get books, so I have read Paul Auster’s Leviathan which I had mentioned in my last entry, and Paulo Coelho’s Veronika Decides to Die, and yesterday I just started Wally Lamb’s She’s Come Undone. I also read Coelho’s The Alchemist but I bought that for myself. I haven’t read that many books within a month in a long time. There are still several books I am in the middle of, and have been for months. I want to finally finish those and then read the other ones I own but haven’t read yet.

I have been following the world cup as much as I could, though I haven’t seen that many matches. I actually missed Germany’s match against Ecuador because I had to run some errands. I went to the grocery store as well, and wow, I’ve never seen it that empty, there was one other lady in there. Haha. I did see the match against Poland though, watched it on campus, and it was simply amazing. Great match and the atmosphere was awesome! I was so excited when we won because this match definitely was nerve-wrecking.

Tomorrow is my birthday, and I am having a picnic with friends at the river. The weather forecast says sun and 0% precipitation chance so I hope we’ll be lucky. It would be a great way to celebrate my champagne birthday (turning 23 on the 23rd). All my friends except one will be there. I am excited about that!

Next weekend I am going home to Munich for the weekend because my brother is graduating from high school. Was about time, took him long enough, haha! Seriously, I am proud of him. He seems to have grown up a lot lately, we get along so much better, and he and his girlfriend seem pretty serious which is good for them. :) His graduation ceremony is on Friday, and on Saturday I am going to celebrate my birthday with my friends in Munich. Yesterday I thought about what to do, and I think we’ll be going out to an Indian restaurant by my house. I love Indian food, and it’ll be a nice change from what I usually eat here (American or Thai/Chinese when I eat out).

Today I got several DVDs from the DAI library. Since I am an intern, membership is free for me, which is great because it gives me a chance to finally see a bunch of movies I’ve always wanted to see but never did. I got Stepford Wives, Honey, Spanglish and Hotel Rwanda and I can keep them until Tuesday, so I will have quite a few movies to watch this weekend.

By the way, I just yesterday got my laptop back. Unbelievable, isn’t it?! They didn’t even find the error, though they assume it’s my (American) wireless card causing compatibility issues with my (German) laptop. I’ll see if that’s true, right now I am using a USB wireless adapter my neighbors gave me. So if the error doesn’t return, I guess that was actually the issue.

Anyway, I am going to end this here now. It’s gotten long enough. 
 

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