Heidelberg

Hellooou!

Last weekend I went to a very nice city only 30min from Mannheim called Heidelberg. It is a very old city and it has a big university and lots of cute little restaurants and cafes. I took som pictures with my big camera that I thought I could show you :). I also took some pics with me in them, with the iPhone but I can't get them to the ipad without wifi so that will have to wait (important right?! haha)

Well otherwise things are great, I would just really like to find some friends, at least to hang with on weekends. After work I am usually tired and are really working hard with my german, well well it will probably work it self out! :)

 

 

 

 

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Schönes Wochenende!

Hallo!

Okay it has been about one week since my last post, but it feels like at least a month!

So much has happened, unfortunately it is not things that are fun to write or read about, mostly work...

I think that a key word that would describe my day would be "learning". Where ever I go I constantly need to "learn", and I do, I learn new things with almost every breath and I love it! At work this week has mostly gone to learning about the products which to me is like Chinese, it is a whole new world, and very interesting! I like my work very much and I like the fact that it is cohesive with my education ( which is the point with this internship, but still, you never know!)

I am also CONSTANTLY trying to learn german, it is sehr schwer! In the morning I watch the news (in german of course) at work I try to follow the conversations, then at lunch I try to speak, when I get home I write down a recap of the words and phrases I have learns during the day, to remember them...my favorite word of today is "Gebäude" which means building, nothing special but it is fun to say haha :P In the evening I try to watch some TV, but the TV in my room is very old and makes a weird noise that I cant get rid of (and it is not the german language I am referring to...hehe). Last night I watched Pearl Harbor, it went quite good, mostly because they don't say much in that movie haha!

Another phrase I have learned is "Malzeit" which kind of means "meal time" but at ABB it is used as a greeting like "good morning" but at lunch time, form what I have understood it is very typical "german workplace greeting" and not used outside of work. So from 11:30 until 14 or so, there basically isan eco of "malzeit" where every you go in the office.

Lunch at work is quite nice, which is good cause I'm not doing much cooking in my small apartment, so far it has been free for me which is even nicer :). Yesterday was "sexy Gemüse"- day, it is some type of vegetarian dish, I had goulash but I loved the name "sexy Gemüse" haha (gemüse means vegetable, or if you are from the Mårtensson family it can also meen that some thing is cosy or nice, that meaning would actually work better with "sexy Gemüse" but maybe not as a meal hehe)

Well now it is weekend, I have not decided what to do yet, maybe I will go to Heidelberg tomorrow if the weather is nice :)

Schönes Wochenende!

Marktplatz - lots of nice "Gebäuden" in this city :)

STAU!! On our way home from Düsseldorf on wednesday, looked very nice though :)

My street, my house is the mint green to the right :)

 

 

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Some pics

Here is just a few pictures from Mannheim, I almost managed to get internet to my iPad yesterday...almost...today all stores are closed so I will have to wait until tomorrow after work to fix it...Unless I can find some one with an iPhone 4 to help me out hehe..long story...Today I took a walk in to centrum it is about 5km and actually quite nice :)

This is Mannheimer wasserturm (right next to starbucks btw hehe)

This is one of the main streets, today all empty, but yesterday it was crowded :) (I think it is called breiter straße but I am not sure... :)

Well lets cross our fingers that I somehow can figure out internet on my iPad and wish me luck at work tomorrow :)

E.

Update: found a friendly american with an iPhone 4 at starbucks and internet now works on my iPad :D

 

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Back at Starbucks...

...but their coffee machine is broken!! OMG, I can't believe it hehe ;)

Today I have bought som stuff for my apartment/room, went for a run and then I went in to the city and here I am!

This is what I have learned today:

• The area where I live is very nice, calm and quiet
• The germans must love smoking, in every corner of my neighborhood there is a cigarette machine hehe ( will show you a pic, very fascinating)
• There is a lot of germans here...
• The dogs are EVERYWHERE, at the cafe, in the stores, restaurants, you name it and the dogs are there!
• The germans do their grocery shop-packing in the car or at least after they have paid and then put everything BACK in the cart (not in bags yet) very strange! And they think you are very annoying if you doit the swedish way because then the next customers items have nowhere to go...
• Mannheim is a very nice city, reminds me of Göteborg a bit.
• The people in Mannheim is very friendly (if you do the grocery shopping "their way"...)

Well I think that is most of it, now I am going home. Tomorrow sunday everything is closed, even the grocery store...

 

Take care!

E.

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Mannheim

I'm here! Tired after getting up at 3am (not kidding I did get up at 3am!), but feeling good!

The flight went great and I think Germany overall really likes me. First when I got of the flight I went to the restroom (yes the information about my restroom visit is important to the story!) and then I was going to get my bags, everybody was standing around waiting, and only two bags was circling around, guess what? That was my two bags, fantastic haha :D. Everybody has been so nice to me, and the sun is even shining, which everybody keen pointing out, since it has been a very grey couple of weeks before :)

Now I'm at starbucks, then I will go to the grocery store and tomorrow I will investigate the city of Mannheim!

Take care everybody!

E.

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On my way!

Here I am, now on the train to Copenhagen and then on the plane to Frankfurt and then train again to Mannheim!
Packing was crazy hard and I can't understand how my african girls Annika and Emelie did, they could probably not bring 3 big suitcases....well, I'm not on the flight yet so I might not make it with all my luggage.
Can't stop think about this train ride, on of the once which could be life changing. Straight in to the unknown! I have traveled faraway on my own before, but it is different this time. Now I am an adult, this is my future..
Love it, lets kick some ass in Mannheim!
.E