Did you ever have a feeling like you walked into a time warp? That’s what it feels like moving from America to Europe. We were zipping along at light speed and now we are on impulse power (yea, trekkie talk). What I am trying to say is that things happen at a different time here. Lets take hooking up the phone and internet for example. In America it takes max a couple of days. It took 2 weeks here, from ordering it to when the man came and spent all of 10 minutes to turn it on at the apartment. Wanna order a book at the library from another branch? 2 weeks. The guy at the library assured us that it would be in “schnell, schnell”!  2 weeks is scnhell (quick) for here. The printer I talked about earlier? Two weeks to get it repaired. It takes time here for things to get done and it takes a bit of getting used to. It’s something you don’t think about when your moving, it’s like an extra (unexpected) surprise at the bottom of a box of surprises. When you get to the 2 week surprise what do you do? Jump and down on the box, scream at the box, kick the box, then go sit down and patiently wait….. for 2 weeks. That’s what I did. Some things only take a week, surprisingly. I did something stupid and crached my laptop. At the time we were told it was my hard drive, it was kaput. It took only a week to get a new hard drive, which I ended up not needing. (That’s one of those laugh/cry moments). It only takes a week for stuff we ordered on amazon.de and ebay.de to get here. That’s good. So yes, we are moving along at impulse speed (creeping), it’s okay now that I have been here a while and  and know what to expect and not every single thing takes 2 weeks.

Getting hired at a new job and actually starting that job takes about a month!