21 days add up to 3 weeks. The three weeks I spent in Aachen. Not knowing a single soul. It was good though. Now that I am on a plane leaving Aachen for 10 days, I actually am looking forward to get back. No, the city is not entertaining, or gorgeous, or anything especially attracting. However it makes me sniff my future. What lies ahead of me…
I am looking forward to starting to work. I really am. It’s not the money, nor any other bonus you might think of. It is just that working will set me free. Arbeit macht frei. Maybe not now, but it will.
But of course, that’s not enough to tell you about what I was up to in Aachen for those three weeks. I will assume that you don’t know a jack but the job thing that I will be starting in mid October.
So I had to go to Aachen, fix my permits, find an apartment, arrange things and learn how to get around. Not wanting to rent a place without seeing it, I decided find a temporary place for September, and look for apartments on site. Having randomly messaged a lot of Turkish people on Facebook, I was able to find a place for a month, albeit the ridiculously high price (370€ for 25m^2 room in Aachen, bloody funny). I picked the keys up in Istanbul and went on to Aachen!
There, one of the first things I did was to look for a permanent apartment along with the dealing with work permit (I still can not believe this story with the permit will take this long! argh!). I believe, at this point I have to introduce the German WG notion to those of you who are not familiar with it. ……
Another thing I wanted to do was to improve my German. During the interview, I have also mentioned this to my current boss, and he said that wouldn’t be necessary, however it would be pretty stupid to live in Germany and not to learn German. So I went to the VHS office in Aachen, took a test so that I could be assigned to a course on my level. Twice a week, Level II for fast-learners; that’s the course for me. There is no socializing among anyone, unlike had last year .in Reutlingen. I believe that was mainly thanks to the great teacher Daniella, taking us to café’s and stuff. I will try to invite people to an after-hours drink next time we have a course! .And I have three (3) reasons for that! Moreover, I am planning to start a Chinese course next February!
About the daily ritual; à coming soon!
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