Apartment

Another day in the books. Growing more concerned with my lack of German. I'm hoping to start picking up more and want to engage with it a bit more. My new flat mates seem very nice and I think socializing with them as well as possibly with people from the office I hope to start to pick more up. Everyone in the office seems quite surprised/glad that I found a place to quickly. They say that prices range and 400 euro's a month isnt bad, certainly could find cheaper places but doing so would prob take a lot more time. As I really havent hear back from anyone else I'm glad I jumped on this one when I had the chance, even if I am over paying slightly. Though for that price a decent sized room, nice kitchen, bathroom and good roommate and landlord seems a small price to pay. They are very hospitable, allowing me to stay in their sons room (who lives in the apartment) while the current tenant is vacating his space. I think this will be a nice place to spend my time. The landlords seem very nice, speak English and seem very down to earth and want to help make sure I am ok while here.
Work today was even a little better still.. I am trying to shake the rust off as I jump head first into this competition. Its hard to get my head around it as the project has already been going on for a bit and the others working on it know the program and conditions a lot better than I do. I dont want to waste time by pursing ideas that are in the past or proposing ideas that clearly dont fit. I think I'll prob spend some time this weekend in the office trying to catch up and bit and attempt to get on the same page. I think we will have a review on the project early next week. Hopefully I can have an idea or two picked up. Means I need to flush my scheme out and bring up to to speed with the current options they are looking at.
I will also be working on my book for the next few days. I need to get a rough draft of that done and submitted so I can take some time refining it. I think the rough drat will be wrong (in format and such) no matter how I submit it, so I might as well just get it out of the way. Plus I need to get feedback on possible formats and layout ideas. Might also sleep in, will be nice to do that for a bit rather than have to wake up so early.... maybe I will go for a run too. Nice that I dont have to worry about moving my shit again for a while. I think I might look into a taxi to the airport when I fly home... or taking a bunch home over christmas...