The clever Swedes

These last few days have been a building adventure. I have been a diligent photographer of the progress and not such a diligent builder... but it's coming along.

A quick update to whet your appetite, then a longer one once I finish building my desk and can then sit and properly write (for the first time since I've been here!) and post an album of everything that is Glücksburger Straße...

First: A bit of panic in my life... in order to HAVE this apartment i need to pay my security deposit, and in order to pay my deposit I need to have a functioning bank account. I have 3 days until this account closes due to the fact that I haven't presented Visa papers, which I cannot get until I register with the state with my new permanent address... do you see the vicious cycle of this bureaucracy?

I am anxiously waiting for my official contract to come in the mail so I can go to city hall for the 6th time and finally get everything sorted out. Phew.

Secondly: IKEA FURNITURE. Wow... those swedes are clever. So clever am I not in terms of putting it all together, but all of this furniture that I had to buy is multifuncitonal, practical, and easy to pack into a car. Building it has been..fun? but I've never felt so accomplished as when I laid down in my own bed that I built with my own two hands. Wow. You can only buy that kind of feeling, at a very nice discount, at IKEA. Thank you swedes for inventing this wonder store.

That's it for now unfortunately. Lots more to comment on, and a lot more coming up, but I think I'll be a much better updater once I get my desk built. Slowly but surely...

Love,
Meredith