• I received a reply about the internship I applied for. You know, that one … [sorry if you don't know what I am talking about, you should read my protected posts]. I just sent my application on Thursday, and already got an invite for an interview. It all sounds so promising. I really really really want it to work out, it would be amazing!
• I signed up for a few classes for next semester already. The highlight? A class on Ian McEwan’s Atonement and On Chesil Beach. I finally ordered the first one on DVD and the book of the latter. Perfect. Excuse.
• I read Eclipse yesterday. I need help. 25 should be too old to obsess over fictional vampires one fictional vampire that are is way too perfect to ever be real [besides the fact that he's a vampire]. I’ll only be disappointed to find that men? Really aren’t that perfect. Damn! Only a few days until the fourth book comes out, can’t wait!
• It is hot outside. And even hotter in the office. I feel like my brain is mushy and I am incompetent this week. I cannot wait for it to be over. No one seems to be working either, they’re all off sick or on vacation. I miss my co-workers!
• I love making new friends. I really hit it off with another girl [Elisabeth] at Jenn’s wedding. I think I may not be so socially awkward after all. Only with guys. Looking forward to hanging out with her when I am back in Heidelberg. Two new friends in a month is pretty awesome!
• Apparently people [Americans] cannot tell that I am German when I speak English. Which is great! But apparently my German is starting to sound American. Which may be not so great. At the wedding I asked a German waiter in German where the restroom was and he replied in English. Wtf? Elisabeth also said that my German sounded American [intonation-wise and such].
• Jenn’s wedding was great, Jenn was beautiful and you could just tell how much her husband adores her. I will post pictures later. [They are already up on Flickr and Facebook, though.] I think I may want to get married at a castle too, just as soon as I’ve found my Edward Cullen Prince Charming.
• Boxes are all up in the attic. Now I will not have to worry about them for two months. Not sure how I will get everything back downstairs undamaged, though. I’ll ask my brother and maybe a friend of his to help me, because these boxes are heavy and the ladder up to the attic makes me shudder [on the inside] just looking at it. No way am I climbing up there.

I’ve been in Heidelberg since yesterday. Wednesday night I found out that the girl whose basement I left my stuff in [of course I asked her] said that I have to move my stuff. I then talked to her after I arrived yesterday, and she said I have two weeks to move it. Needless to say, I am a bit peeved. I can just move it up to the attic, but that is up two floors and then up the ladder that goes to the attic. And they [both the girl and my former landlord who first told me] have known this for weeks if not months, but didn’t tell me until 12 hours before I was leaving for Heidelberg. Of course I have to move it, it’s her basement, she needs it [and she does have a good reason, so I'm not complaining about that], she did me a huge favor by letting me leave my stuff there for a year without paying anything [though I did offer!], but then letting me know that last minute is inconsiderate, regardless of how nice it was of her in the first place. Now I have moved some stuff to the 2nd floor (up two floors) already, and luckily my friend Flora is going to help me tomorrow morning to move the rest and take everything up to the attic. But I did have to cancel my plans for tomorrow which sucks. But otherwise I would have to come back here again just to move some stuff up the attic next weekend and needless to say it would be a huge ordeal just to do that, stressful and expensive. So I hope everything will work out tomorrow and Flora and I will get everything done.

Anyway, on to more fun things. I met up with Flora yesterday, we went to Starbucks and got some coffee and chatted, and then took a walk down to the Neckar and along the river. It was really fun, and so nice to see her again. In the evening Sheela, Dani and I went to Mandy’s [a diner], and I had my usual burger and a milkshake, man, I did miss it, they are so much better than at McDonald’s.

Today I went to the housing office where the lady told me how my chances were of getting an apartment through university housing - very, very bad. No surprise there, though. She told me to call again in two weeks, but I think my dad and I will have to come back here in three weeks or so to find an apartment for me.

Right now I am at the university library because I wanted to check my e-mail and update my blog. I can get online on my phone at the house but typing on it takes forever. I also had some time to kill anyway, so I decided to stop by my former work again [I already did this morning but my supervisor wasn't there yet] to say hi to my former co-workers and ask if I could work there again in October. I don’t want to get overly excited yet, but it did sound like I would quite likely be able to work there again, possibly some other tasks than I used to, though. My supervisor told me she would talk to the store manager and let me know next week or the week after.

Sooo, I think I am off to the rehearsal dinner now. It starts in a little over an hour but I want to stop at Starbucks and have to go to the bank as well. Besides all the stress of unexpectedly having to move my stuff, I am having a good time here, though. The weather is amazing, it is sunny and warm, and it is good to see my friends again after such a long time.

I have been having a really good time this past week. Thursday I went out for drinks with Julia and Sylvia. It was really good to catch up, especially as I hadn’t seen Sylvia since January! We went to Escobar which is where we always go, and it was really fun.

Then, Friday was the Spanish speaking meet-up [organized through a forum I post on], which also took place at Escobar. It was the first time I went since they started the meet-ups, and while I was nervous at first to speak Spanish again [after three weeks of not speaking it at all!], it went quite well, especially after the first drink. ;) It was actually nice to speak Spanish again. Of course it was cool that it happened to be at my favorite bar - it is always at a different Latin-American bar / restaurant. I’ll definitely be at the next one as well, and it looks like Tina might be joining me!

Saturday I went to Ruben’s food party, he made empanadas and carimanolas, they were really yummy! I also talked to a guy from Barcelona there, and had to realize I really don’t speak Catalan, haha. But it was nice to talk to someone who knows the city. After that I went to Nektar Beach, a restaurant / club on the Praterinsel [an island in the river Isar that runs through Munich] for the polka dot dress night out. It was so fun! We were all [well, almost all] dressed in polka dot dresses, and I really had a good time.

Sunday I did … nothing. But that was okay, I spent most of the day in bed watching Dexter. Today I went to work. My supervisor is on holidays for this and next week, and so I was by myself at the office, but I am proud to say, I managed quite well. At least I think I did. There isn’t that much to do but I ended up finding a few tasks to keep me busy. I was kind of nervous about today so I am glad it went so well.

After work, I went downtown and got a purse to go with my outfit for the wedding on Saturday. I finally found one at Esprit that was even on sale! I had been looking for one for a while now, but it was hard to find one in a color, style, and size that would go with the dress I want to wear. Then I met up with Sandra [my co-worker / new friend], Babs [who I know through aforementioned forum] and Theresa, a friend of Babs. We went to see Mamma Mia at the theater. And gosh, it was so cheesy, but really fun and entertaining too! But one of the funniest things was actually before the movie started. They showed a trailer for Wall-E and someone in the audience was laughing in such a funny way that it made everyone around them laugh, including Sandra and me. Man, I had tears in my eyes, but it was just too funny. And Sandra and I have the funniest conversations. I really feel like we’re already friends, even though I’ve only known her for three weeks. It’s a shame that next week will be her last week at work but I am sure we will keep in touch and hang out sometime.

Well, that is it for me for now. I am going to be in Heidelberg from Thursday to Sunday for Jenn’s wedding. I will be staying at my former neighbors’, actually it looks like I will be able to stay in my former room. Former because I have pretty much decided not to move back there, mostly because I didn’t really get along with the guy who I’d share the bathroom with, can’t believe he still lives there, he was supposed to stay there for a few weeks at most, and that was last summer! I’m really looking forward to spending some time in Heidelberg, hanging out with friends, and the wedding. I’ll make sure to take lots of pics.

Speaking of, I have a bunch of new pics, but I will make a separate password-protected post for those. You should [almost] all have the password, if you don’t, ask.

By the way, all my grades from UB are finally online. I am mostly happy with them. Of course the ‘No presentat’ aren’t so great but I knew I’d get them because I didn’t take the exams. ['Not present' is what 'No presentat' means.] But other than that, I am pretty happy - I only got one AP, and even two EX, and all NT for the rest.