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.