I successfully got an application for a residence permit earlier this week but it hasn't quite worked out how I thought, or rather I didn't think it all the way through. You get 90 days to look for work and when/if you do, then the residence permit is appointed. Well, I'm leaving for the Czech Republic in two weeks and then I'll be there for a month. Do you know what that means? It means that nearly two of the three months that I'm allowed to look for work I'll not be looking for when and when I return from the Czech, I'll only have one month to find work! Now, the woman at the Einwohnermeldamt did say that I could get a two-month extension no problem and that makes me feel better but I'm still thinking that I need to give myself as much leeway as possible in finding work. So, I'm thinking of going into the office (before noon, of couse, because they close at 12 freakin'o'clock!) and de-registering my application and my address. It makes me feel a bit stupid but at first I wanted to do everything by the book and I thought I needed this registration to get a bank account. Well, the Postbank wanted to see that I would be allowed to live here at least 6 months first but across the street at the Volksbank, they couldn't give a rat's ass about whether I was passing through town or what. I opened up the account and bam, here we are. This is where the feeling foolish part comes in.

I thought that I would need these papers and so I began my "three months" but it turns out I didn't and so I'm completely wasting the three months. Hopefully I can take care of this so that when I come back to Germany in mid-March I can register again, this time with the new address that we will have because we're currently flat searching, have a job, and fill out ALL this paperwork simultaneously, thus avoiding many trips back to the Ein-this, and Ausland-that!

So, that's where we are. We went to a bar called El Pi last night and had a rip-roaring good time. It was weird riding my bike there to a bar, I dont' think I even did that in college! And it rained on the way home which was no good but at the same time great. Isn't that weird about unhappy or mildly miserable experience? That when you come through them you're almost proud to speak of these tough times you survived...oh what tough lives we humans have nowadays!

Well, that's it for today. Oh, I changed my German lessons to start in April. This way I could get my TEFL certificate and start work and then start the lessons. They will be from 2-5:30 in the afternoon and hopefully I'll work some classes at night after that but we're getting ahead of ourselves, as I'm prone to do. Sorry there aren't any new pictures, I haven't taken that many the last few days and felt that I owed some sort of an update to the one or two people who are actually reading this. Cheers to you.

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