Week Eight

Wow it's hard to believe that the time is going by so fast. I have a little over four weeks left here, and I'm really looking forward to coming home. Although, it may not be for long...more on that later. This week was really stressful. When I got the assignment for this online media research project at work, we set a tentative meeting to discuss my project on July 8, which was this past Tuesday. But Agnes was too busy while she was here, so she kept putting it off. Then she called me late Friday morning to say that Frank would meet with me that afternoon instead and to give me about six other things to do (while talking so fast that I couldn't understand him). So I really started freaking out about the meeting, but then Frank called to say that he had to put it off until Monday morning. I was kind of pissed at first (just get it over with already!), but now I'm glad. I've been able to make a list of all the questions I have and what I need to complete the project. This is good, since otherwise, I probably would've been too flustered to organize my thoughts.

In other news, I didn't do much this weekend. On Friday, I tried to get a bunch of the interns to come out for the evening, but pretty much everyone was either traveling or already had plans. So it ended up just being the American interns. The three of us had all had really stressful weeks, so instead of going out to party, which was the original plan, we decided to check out Taubertsbergbad - a local public pool. It was AMAZING! For 10 euro (yay student night!) we got access to every single pool and sauna for four hours. We spent the majority of our time in the Erlebnisbad, a very fancy heated pool with artificial currents and a swim through to an outdoor area, plus jacuzzis! However, we did try out both waterslides - very fun - and took a moment to go over to the Olympic sized Sportbad. There they had a separate diving well with 1 meter and 3 meter springboards, and a 5 meter platform. I only brought bikinis with me, so I stuck to the 1 meter, but after only three tries I nailed my front tuck dive. That felt good since it's been a long time since I've been anywhere near a real diving board.

Other than that, I've just been relaxing and doing a little online research. For one thing, my friend Sam, who I visited last week in Berlin, told me about an opening at her PR firm in Berlin, so I've applied to that. They want to do a phone interview with me tomorrow evening, so I'm trying to get as much information together about them as I can. If I got this job (it's a trainee position for a native English speaker), then I would move to Berlin permanently, or at least for a few years. That's a bit of a scary thought, but it would be a great opportunity...and I love Berlin! It's all very tentative though, because they've already done final interviews for two other candidates, but neither were as qualified as I am, so they still want to talk to me. I've also been applying like crazy to other jobs around DC. I'm really hoping to have this job thing sorted out before I come home.

I'm really looking forward to the next few weeks. Next weekend is a beer festival in Mainz, then the following week I'm going to the beach in Spain for four days (so excited!) and then the week after that, Agnes was talking about giving me another four day weekend to go to Berlin. That will be my birthday weekend! Awesome. Can't wait!