A New Home

Although Dina and I traveled a bit through Germany before coming to Heidelberg, I will not delve too much into those expeditions as I feel that I would need to be writing extensively to keep up. With all the new things going on in my life, its hard to keep up and place them into words. I had to arrive in Heidelberg by myself as Dina was going to be dropped off by our friends once I had the apartment situation settled. The train from Pirmasens didn't take long (~2hrs) and soon enough I was in a new city yet again. I haven't traveled in a foreign country by myself since I started dating Dina. Either way I had to go the Universitaet Platz to the Triplex Mensa in order to get my keys to my apartment. However the directions provided weren't very helpful, and I was quite confused. Besides as always I tried to save money and walk there, underestimating the distance, and the complexity of the matter. In addition I had to find a Deutsche Bank in order to take out money without paying a service fee. Yes, I could withdraw money at the nearest ATM, but I am not a rich student with unlimited resources. Every 5 euro spent on admin fees, is 5 euro I have less to spend on fun things such as trips. It took over an hour and some guidance from Dina who had internet access. Got my keys and this time I took a bus to my apartment. I'm glad I did. It was very hot outside, carrying a backpack did not make it any easier. Our friends came with Dina and even helped us shop for some basic food items so that we weren't hungry. Finally we settled into our apartment for the night.

All white, with not a drop of color in it. We felt like we were in a hospital room, or psychiatric facility.