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My birthday in Frankfurt was AWESOME. The day before my birthday, my good friend Catherine got back to Frankfurt after spending Christmas with her family in the Statues, so we met up for coffee before cooking dinner at her apartment. Then it was off to Oeder Weg (near where I used to live) for drinks with Catherine, my friend Emelie, her boyfriend Timo, and Timo's friend Dennis. My friend Nico was also celebrating his birthday, so we met up with him at the Frankfurt famous Hamburger am Turm, and then it was off to Pony Hof in alt Sachsenhausen for tunes and rug-cutting. It was a grand old time! For Sunday, my actual birthday [tangent: in German, when you start celebrating early, they call it 'reinfeiern', a word you won't find in any dictionary - the huge nerd in me is so STOKED to learn stuff like that], I met up for lunch with my friends Melanie, Daniela and Bobo, and had a delish lunch (and got presents!!) before taking the train up to HAMBURG.
And so now I'm in Hamburg. And It. Is. Incredible.
The city itself is beautiful - huge, clean, with amazing old (preserved, original) architecture (as opposed to Frankfurt) and really diverse, vibrant neighborhoods. The one I'm staying in, Schanzen Viertel, is teeming with hippies and hipsters and covered in graffiti and full of awesome little restaurants and bars and boutiques. It's apparently pretty expensive to live around here, but I can SO see myself here. Here's to finding a really well paid teaching job. Or to finding a FEW well paid teaching jobs.
SPEAKING of finding jobs, I had an interview today with a woman who runs a music school for kids. It went really well, and if I find a couple other options in Hamburg, I'll definitely end up working a couple of hours a week with her and her students. SO EXCITING! Other than that, I've just been hitting the pavement and trying to peddle my Mad English Teaching Skillz around the streets of Hamburg. I've stopped in to a few different Language Institutes, with varying results: call back tomorrow, sorry we're not hiring, etc., but everyone seemed very happy to meet me face to face and wished me luck with the job hunt. Tomorrow I'm calling a couple of offices and then I'm off to two neighborhoods west and south of downtown
And then FRIDAY it's off to Munich! I have an interview scheduled with an Language Institute in the late afternoon, and then I'm taking the train back to Frankfurt for the weekend.
Miss you so much, Family! More to come soon!
aud
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