Munich has, thus far, given me a very rainy hello. My first weekend was mainly Robert catch up time. It also happened to be a big parade through town.I met him at his place and we made this bitchin' salad for lunch.
We ate this masterpiece on his porch, which worked well because it was the small portion of the day where it wasn't raining, and then continued on to look at the parade. However, we didn't stay very long. Did I mention it was very rainy? After the parade, we split to run errands, and then met back up to watch a double feature of Iron Man and Hulk in the one really good English theater. Overall, it was a fun night.After a little over two weeks here, I have to say: a lot of things just haven't changed. However, some things are just a little different.
One of my favorite differences is having my own office. I mean, Egor was a great office-mate... but it's very very nice to be able to talk to yourself in the middle of the day without having someone think you're crazy. Besides yourself that is. Come on, my office even has my name on the outside of my door. Beat that!Just like last time, I started off my stay in the dreadful guesthouse. Ian, Dave, and Cassie can all attest to the crappy crappy conditions of said guesthouse. One upside compared to my last stay is that every once in a while I found a wireless signal so that I could get online... but that was rarely.
The difference is this time I got out of the guesthouse. Robert is on vacation for the next few weeks so I'm staying in his place during that time. It's a cool place just up the street from the central train station with two nice flatmates too: Antonio who comes from the west coast of Mexico, and Felix who is German.View Larger Map
Other than that I've just been catching up with people and re-experiencing some of the city. Last weekend was a celebration for the 850th birthday of Munich. I took this picture of a big armored Lion there. Supposedly it danced and stuff, although I missed that part. All I can attest to is it's size... and that there were at least two of them. On Thursday the group had a going away party for Manu, who is leaving to work at Bosch in Stuttgart. Then Friday night I ended up going out with Antonio. We went all over. I mean all over. Including an "over 30" club... that was weird.I stay here until I leave for my language course on August 12th. Until then I'll be working a little and looking for apartments a lot. Maybe even climbing a ... medium amount...! Here's to hoping the current residents of apartments want to live with an American chemist! Wish me luck! Woohoo!
