A new place to call home

The last 2 weeks' time, I have spent moving into my new Friedrichshain flat and moving out of my Weissensee flat.
Today I'm actually handing over the keys to my old flat and leaving it for good. I have been living in the new flat for a couple of days by now and am already starting to settle in. The new flat is a tad closer to work and a great deal closer to the language school, so that's means less time spent on public transportation, which is always a good thing.
The new place doesn't feel quite like home yet, but I can see myself settling in there and I am sure that it won't take long before it starts to feel like home :)

The search paid off

I am no longer flat hunting! Just yesterday I got the keys to my new flat and I expect to have moved in by Sunday.

I'm moving to a cosy little flat in Friedrichshain that might be a bit smaller than where I live now but instead it's in a more lively neighbourhood and it's closer to work.

The flat hunt that led me to this flat was rather short lived. And yet again an add on Craigslist was all worth it. Which proves that even though there are a lot of scammers on Craigslist, it shouldn't be ruled out in a search for a place to live.

But I am certainly not planning on moving again before January where I'll either find something more permanent or go back to Denmark. I know I said it before, but this time it's going to last, I hope :p

Flat hunting .. again

Just as I thought I was all set for the rest of my stay in Berlin, I find myself flat hunting again. I got the news that I had to move again just as I had started to feel at home in my Weissensee flat and had finally started to get settled with my new routines. As I've mentioned before, this flat was supposed to be it. This was where I was supposed to live until January. But quite unexpectedly my subletter has cut her travels short and has returned to Germany after only three months abroad.

I've have been flat hunting for around two weeks now, but only seriously for about five days and I have a couple of leads already. During the next week, I am going to two viewings and I have already had a look at another flat this week. So I am pretty hopeful and rather confident that I will find somewhere else to live and I am counting on leaving my current flat during the next couple of months.

Although, moving again certainly was a part of my original plan, I am staying positive and hoping that this will lead to something good and maybe even something better :)

Ich lerne jetzt Deutsch

So it's about time I post an update. I've been a little preoccupied lately for reasons I will return to in another post, another day.

For now, I am going to focus on my improving German skills. I've been going to Sprachenatalier twice a week for the last four weeks now. So far I'm liking it. And even though it's slow progress with a lot of repitition, I feel like I am getting something out of it. I understand more of what's going on around me and I am getting a basic understand of the language. Of course it's a huge advantage being a native Danish speaker, since so many aspects of the two languages are similar. In one area the two languages differ greatly, though, and that area is grammar. But since languages (albeit not the German language) is my profession I don't find the grammar that difficult, at least not yet. We haven't gotten to me complicated parts yet, but so far so good :)

So all in all, I must say that I am very satisfied with my choice of language school. And who knows, one day I might be able to blog in German :p