Arbeit und Ostern!

I thought it was about time I blogged about my job-the reason I'm actually here. So the way it works is that you generally list the areas you want to work in on your application to the programme(at home) and they send it on to the partner organisation in the city you're going to. The partner organisation is the one who finds you accommodation and a work placement and pays you your travel and food allowances.

The idea is, I guess, that you find something relevant to your experience, skills and degree and your work placement employer gets someone who is a native speaker of another language and for free! I really like where I work. I work in a company which works within the area of EU funding. I find what I'm doing really interesting and I try to use my German in the office(very badly, might I add). I've been at work for the last two weeks, although I can't claim I did much this week. Our boss very kindly also gave us Thursday off, before presenting us with Easter gifts :-) (below) So I have 5 whole days off for Easter!




Easter itself seems to be quite a big deal, compared to at home. There's lots of spring-like decorations available everywhere, and painted eggs....and LOTS of chocolate! The chocolate shops have very beautiful things available. In fact, chocolate eggs seem to be quite few in number.

Other things I've been doing, outside of work(so not very much!):

Watching American Pie-yes, the cinema showed all three of the previous American Pie films before showing the new one. So I spent the whole day in the cinema, complete with my piece of apple pie. It was a great way to spend a day

Drinking 'super spezial' at Double Eye-  the queue was always out the door whenever we passed this small coffee bar. There is nowhere to sit inside and only benches outside so I couldn't understand why it was so busy. Then I had a coffee from there.... Double Eye is famous for how good its' coffee is. I'm fond of the 'super spezial' which is a shot of either strong or mild espresso(your choice), with a layer of condensed milk and topped with milk foam. It's yummy and inexpensive.

Eating: this clearly never stops and I'm constantly amazed by how much I can actually eat on the menu. So much good food for veggies.  We've been to BurgerAMT, had sushi, 1 euro tacos from Santa Maria in Kreuzberg and the most AMAZING plate filled with hummus, halloumi, falafel and more from DaDa Falafel. All really, really good. Obviously plenty of kebabs too :-)

Schones Wochenende!

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