Another beautiful day in Berlin! It was 3 today but the sun was shining and the ice was melting (only to freeze again tonight and provide a new layer of danger). I was nervous for my Anmeldung meeting but excited to be on the books and move forward with this tedious process.
I missed the boat on some work stuff that I was supposed to do last week so I spent the morning trying to figure it out without full system access. We wrapped it up just in time for me to run out for my meeting. The administrative building, Bürgeramt, was not as scary as I thought it would be. Television monitors displayed what number they were on and what room you needed to go to when you were called. I was number 697608 and they were on 694428… whhhattt? Luckily they were going out of order and I only had to wait about 20 minutes. When directed to 4 Platz, I knocked on the door thinking it was a private office where I would be harshly interrogated. When no one answered I opened and saw that it was another room with four desks, each seeing a different set of applicants. Luckily I have experience with awkwardness so I didn’t feel too bad about standing outside like a moron. Frau Gleiche reviewed my application and documents for 10 minutes without saying a word while I admired the kitty posters on the wall… then she stamped it and handed it back to me. Not a word of German necessary. Woop! My coworker Randi who went through the process said they gave her a hard time but she had a HR person with her. I’m glad Frau Gleiche treated me good and stamped my anmeldebestätigung!
Esteban, the super friendly, super helpful, guy who works downstairs is helping me figure out how and which gym to join. After all these pommes and pizzas (check out this one I had for dinner last night) I am going to need it. On that note, there was some awesome chilli for lunch today, the first thing I’ve eaten with some pizzazz and it came just in time.
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