SNOW !!!

It's freaking snowing here - and since yesterday evening we have about 10 cm REAL snow !!

Awesome !

According to the weather forecast we are expecting between 10 and 25cm more new snow during the day. This rocks!

My appartment

So I still get questions about my new appartment, hmmm, it seems I should either loose some more words about it or you guys simply don't check out my blog ;).

So as mentioned before 54 square meters, two rooms with carpets, from which I will one change to laminate a very plain kitchen but with gas and a small bathroom and naturally a balkony. Everything up on the 3rd floor, no lift and that's one of the big reasons why I have a spedition doing my move.

For all those who are interested in helping me with my move, it will probaldy take place on the 5th/6th febr. and it will be realy easy. As announcent quite often, we'll grab sone beer carry it downstairs and drink it while we watch my movers do the move.
Exhausting ain't it ? ;)

The district I'm going to live in is called St. Johannis - big thanks to Christian S., my former BenQ for the advice colleague, it's a nice corner. I also mentioned before that I have visited another appartment in that same street and already from that moment on this previous and now my current appartment where on the top of my "I want to live there" list.

Reason? There is a chinese vietnamese restaurant right on the corner, just across the street a chinese shop and just a few houses straight along the street a sushi restaurant. - I just soo had to live in that street.

The house itself isn't so great from the front but it has a nice backyard. If you enter the appartment, the kitchen is right to left, with the balkony, both facing north west and with the bedroom also on the left side. The living room is on the right while the bathroom is straight ahead. And that's all, not that I need that much more.

As soon as I get the keys, I'm going to start laying laminate in the living room, so that get's done before the move. That's it for now. I ll pu up pictures as soon as I get some.

p.s.
I'm going to celebrate my new birthday in my new appartment, naturally. Same procedure as last year, the usual suspects are always invited .... ;) ...

Woot !

I finally decided for an appartment, Kirchenweg, 2 rooms with carpets, 54 qm in total, a very plain kitchen but with gas (!), a nice balkony, 3rd floor, no lift.

Naturally just two hours later after I visited and said yes to the owner, the one appartment I was originally looking for, offered me an appartment in the same building but with a terrace, but call me studip, I already said yes to the other one and so declined.

Fun part is, all three appartments, the one I was originally looking for, the one I got offered later and the one I finally decided for are in the same street just three buildings apart.
Anyway I got something now! It's time to prepare the move!

Woot!

Not much to say

So far, still looking for an appartment.

I hoped I would have found something by this time but appearantly I became rather picky in choosing something that would suit me.

Everything is still open but Kendo rocks.

So just for the fun of it:


Clips: Girl. Bikini. Wii-mote.

Visiting appartments and more appartments, ....

Yeah, that's what I was mainly doing this week, the only real fun part this week was Kendo. And no, I still don't have something final, there are potential ones but there's nothing realy to announce.

So I'll be looking further during the next week, wish me luck, I'm loosing my motivation to keep on searching.

Oh work after the first week.

No project yet for me, so no real work but I have a lot to read about their former projects. The people are cool though I don't know that many yet, most are pretty busy with finishing off what didn't get done till end of last year to get moving to the new projects - and that's the point where I guess I will start getting real work :).

I didn't get it.

It seems after talking to the owner, that the appartment is a social supported appartment.
To be allowed to rent such one you have to get either social help and/or your wages need to be lower that a certain limit.

So in this case, I earn to much, doh!

I have to keep on looking.

p.s.
the iPhone is there
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/live-from-macworld-2007-steve-jobs-keynote/

Appartment

After thinking it over and over during yesterday and today, I decided for one I sah yesterday. It is going to be the "new 1996" one. Apperently the owner is not available till 15th January and there is so far one more interested, so wish me luck that I get it.

Nürnberg

So I arrived in Nürnberg on thursday.

Honestly, it's pretty impressive but I might have been biased from living in KLF before ;). Anyway driving all down there was pretty easy, I left at 10am and arrived and 5pm at my temporary appartment. So far everything alright. After a short break and bothering some ppl at the phone I started further looking for a long time appartment and making appointments to visit some of those appartments but besides that I just stayed in my room for thursday.

Friday was visiting appartments, checking in on a local cafe, the Cafe Bar Celona and using the WiFi hotspot to check out some more ads for appartements. I got about 10 more and started calling them when I got back to my room. I also moved my O2 Homezone so my old Homezone number isn't working anymore.

I found one very beautiful appartment, which is probadly gone by now. It's right in the middle of the city, you might say next to the castle, realy impressive. Everything else was okay, with one appartment I sah today, which is in the newspaper since this week, so I might have a chance to get that. Even though there are very very much old buildings in Nürnberg, this one is in a 1996 build one but it has a rather big balkony. I'll have to see what the next week will bring.

Regarding Nürnberg, as I mentioned before, it's pretty impressive. It has a whole different taste to it, than all the other cities I know. So far I know cities smaller, as my old home town and Göttingen and larger, like Hamburg and Berlin but to be honest. Nürnberg is beautiful.

On Monday ist going to be my first day at my new job. I'll see what is awaiting me there and so far I'm pretty exited and curious about it. Besides that, I know there should be the possibility to start Kendo as well as Aikodo here in Nürnberg and I brought "my stuff" with me, but apart from that looking for a longterm appartment will by keeping my occupied during the first few weeks, wish me luck I find what might like and that I get.

So much from here now, I think I get back to here another time. This WiFi Hotspot, the California, is a bit nicer as the Cafe - Bar - Celona IMHO so if I don't find something more interesting.

A happy new year!

Yepp, I arrived in 2007.

But I haven't arrived in Nuremberg yet, I delayed my departure till tomorrow to have a little bit more time to pack up stuff here and as it seems vacations just ended in Bavaria and there is no need to stand in line of all those traffic jams.

So I'm still here in KLF and packing up stuff which I might need in Nuremberg. I also started calling some people to check out some appartments, which means I had over 70 ads regarding appartmants but in the end only a dozen were realy good and even from these I only reached half of the people at the phone, but it's a start.

The plan is to stay there two weeks to search for an appartment, then get back around the 20/21 January to pack up stuff and to move maybe 27/28 January or either 3/4 February to be able to celebrate my birthday in Nuremberg. If that will realy happen that way, who knows.