London one-way!

That’s right, I’m here in the gorgeous city of Berlin, enjoying a Melbourne mix of sun, rain, heat and wind all in the same day. My arrival wasn’t too bad, following a half an hour delay by easyJet for having to change planes due to a technical problem. Lutz met me at the airport and brought me back to our accomodation and then head out to pick up the next ones.

We share one flat with four people, two in each room, plus we have a spacey lounge with a balcony, kitchen and bathroom. From the balcony, I’m sitting here on the couch and I can see the lights of the TV tower – it doesn’t look too far away. We haven’t bothered with the TV yet, last night we had a few people around to get to know each other and been hanging out.

There’s my flatmate Elizabeth, she’s from south-east London and studying English Lit at Goldsmith’s university, David from San Diego but he’s lived in LA the last five years and is moving to New York on return to the US. He moved to LA as part of a punk rock band but gave that up for uni. Matt, in the flat below us is from Edinburgh, he wants to stay and live in Berlin indefinitely after the program. Katie, from Glasgow and Michael, who lives in Islington – north london.

Since then, today, we’ve had a host of new arrivals, the latest wont get here till 2am and we have to be ready at 8am to go to our language class orientation and then orientation for the guide.

Today, the six of us went out to a fleamarket at Eberswalder Strasse, and David, Elizabeth and I bought bikes. I haggled (yes, in German) with the guys to get 10 euros off Elizabeth’s bike and 5euros off mine, we both paid 40euros in the end. Then I got us three locks for 13euros (they were 4.50 each).

We had lunch at this retro cafe/bar, which would be nice to go to for drinks, but the food took an hour. A whole hour. We were starving but we weren’t in a hurry so we enjoyed what we had.

Then we rode home, through rain, and then sun again – it was great fun and will be good exercise for us 🙂

I’m about to go and check in with the others…time for a Pimms nightcap.

Tchuss!

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