Starting a Routine!

I am in Hamburg! Actually I am here already for a while. After my last post I still went to visit my grandma in the retirement home and then caught my ride to Hamburg. The drive was ok, not too many hold-ups and rather relaxing. Despite the fact that the driver was listening to very weird music very loud for something like over an hour it was ok and from time to time quite communicative.

When I arrived in Hamburg I took the bus home and A. picked me up from the bus stop close to our flat. We then went out to eat, since neither A. nor me were up for cooking something. We walked the few hundred meters to Winterhude and were eating in an Indian restaurant.

The weekend we spent mostly at home, the weather was simply not nice enough. We went grocery shopping on Saturday though and when we biked to the Stadtpark on Sunday we found the cutest ice cream parlor in Hamburg. The two best things are: it has the best ice cream in town and it's just around the corner from our flat.

We used the two days together to get used to each other again and organized our stuff in the flat a bit. Really living together is a huge difference to occasionally being in each others flat for some time. We were cooking together and were enjoying a nice bottle of wine or a beer with the food.

The new week then started early. A. had to go to work and I had to get to work as well; of course not really work, but I wanted to go to the university library to work on my thesis. I biked there and spent the morning reading and writing. I already made some progress and am quite confident that I will be able to go on in this pace of working. After working for some hours I met up with A. for lunch and went home afterwards.

A. cutting the TV to be able to plug a cable in!

Today I stayed in, I needed to do some more research and had to have internet (which I don't in the library). The morning was quite efficient: I did the dishes, fixed some things in the flat, did a virus check on my PC and was drinking coffee. Despite doing all these things I actually did some research and wrote some 400 words for my thesis.

Now I am waiting for A. to come home. She already called and said she has to do overtime, but I hope this wont take too long. This afternoon we maybe go shopping to Hamburger Meile still, depending on how A. feels upon return.

~M~

Busy, Busy!

I know I haven't been writing for two weeks again. But today is the first day of July and I felt I could start the new month with a post so that you get to know what changes the last month brought! Right now I am still in Aachen at my parent's house, but will leave in something like 2 hours. Before going back to Hamburg I am going to visit my grandma in the retirement home.

As I said, the last weeks have been busy and have brought some changes. Shortly after my last post I packed most of my stuff in Bad Honnef. I just left some few clothes and other things I don't need on a daily basis. The same day I left Bad Honnef I signed up for my thesis. Now I have three months to finish it and by now already two weeks of this time have passed.

With all my stuff I went to Aachen. A. was on her way from Hamburg to come and visit my parents again as well and so we met up that evening in my home town. We spend the weekend packing some of my stuff into boxes and into the car. We also went to my grandparents' flat to get some of their stuff. Since my grandpa died seven weeks ago and my grandma is living in the retirement home for over two years already we were free to take whatever we wanted to have. So we took some few furniture and also other things like vases and china for our new home in Hamburg. We packed it all into my mum's car, which she had lent me for the whole week.

My mum wrapping glasses!

We went back to Hamburg on Sunday and took two more passengers with us. When we arrived it was already late and so we had dinner at Subway before we unloaded all the things. We were too tired to unpack everything, though, and so we put everything just into the flat.

The next week we were unpacking my things and went to get more things. We bought a big closet, a bigger fridge and some other decorative things, like pillows and candles and stuff; you can tell: I'm now living with a girl! And, what's most important: I bought a used bike! This is really essential in Hamburg.

The week went by way too fast and was quite stressful. Besides getting new furniture A. & I also went to some kind of circus performance, for which she had gotten tickets over her company. Later that week we also went to a Midsommar party of Scandic Hotels directly at the Alster.

Not the circus tickets! Just other tickets I bought!

On Sunday I went back to Aachen and took some people with me. We had many traffic jams on the way and so the drive to Aachen took extremely long. We were even going off the motorway and took country roads for some time to avoid the traffic jams.

Anyways, the last week I have been here in Aachen. I went to the university library each day and was reading for and working on my thesis. Yesterday I wrote the first couple of sentences and hope to be able to continue working so successfully on it in Hamburg.

As I said before, I'm going back to Hamburg soon. I have most of my stuff packed again and will head to visit my grandma and then to the meeting point in 30 minutes. I can't wait to be back in Hamburg and will stay there for something like three weeks now. I want to get a routine in living with A. and working on my thesis in Hamburg.

~M~