Got my stipend. One of the DAAD/SIP scholars came running down the hall at lunch to say that he saw the deposit pending on his Deutsche Bank online banking screen. (We’ve all been refreshing that window every thirty seconds for the past month and a half.) We cheered, figured it’d clear by tomorrow, and we’d … Continue reading
I scooped up a paycheck from Drexel and headed straight for the grocery store. I had myself a meal today. Not pictured are the heaping bowl of cornflakes and small omelette I made for myself after polishing off what’s pictured. One of my favorite things about Munich is that buying a bottle of beer is … Continue reading
So what you do is: You go to the Aldi with your friends, and you scope around for some dece food. You’ve already been to Penny Markt this week, naturally—just yesterday, in fact—and so you’re pretty well provisioned already. For example, you have these badass balls of meat that you just plop into boiling butter … Continue reading
*** Written at 20:50 Munich time. *** I met more Americans. No exclamation point because I was really hoping to be in a housing assignment where I’d meet tons of Germans, seeing as I’m studying in Germany, but hey, I’ll take what I can get when it comes to friends. (Burn to any and all … Continue reading