Today I met up with the Tex-Pat for the first time. We went to the Brückenfest [bridge fest], it was a blast. We really hit it off, and it didn’t feel like we just met for the first time or awkward in some way at all. We wandered around the bridges, ate some yummy German junk food [bratwurst etc.], and talked for hours. These are the best things about blogging, you get to meet people you would have otherwise not met and make new friends. I am sure we will hang out again soon!

I also took some pictures at the Brückenfest which is part of the celebrations for Munich’s 850th anniversary. That’s right, my hometown turned 850 years old this year! Throughout the summer there are festivities on several weekends, and all kinds of activities going on. This was the first time I went to any of them, though.

Some random pictures from today …

I have no idea why they were dressed up like that, but I think the cellphone makes it all the more bizarre.

The Isar beach

Jamming out at a bus stop

Lots of people out on the streets

Yesterday I went to the sneak preview at the Cinema with Lissy. They have that every Friday night, and you get to see a movie that hasn’t been released in Germany yet, but you don’t know which one it is until it started. Yesterday’s movie was The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Not a movie I would have picked to see but it was fun and entertaining.

By the way, the interview for the internship is on Thursday! Cross your fingers please!

• 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.