New Home

After a full week in Düsseldorf, Germany I can now rapport that I have begun to get some sense of the place. It helps that I got a friendly introduction to the city (thanks Hanna), but also that I have been lucky enough to been “adopted” by my new family. More on this later.

I am in D’dorf to do a 7-week course in German, and along the way deepen my knowledge and understanding of Germany culture. This in order to prepare me for my subsequent internship. The posts henceforth will concern my:

• Struggle with the grinding German (language)
• Serendipitous discoveries in Düsseldorf
• Anything and everything else

As a mere formality I should also post some new contact details:
Cell-phone (operational as of Monday): +49-177-720 68 97

Address: Akerman C/o Vogel
Linienstr. 53
40227 Düsseldorf
Germany

Now, my new „family“. Since I decided to shun the dorms where most other Swedes chose to live I had to find a place to stay on the open market. I found it bit scary to move to a city without having housing arranged but I quickly found a wonderful, artistic family (father 35, “mother” 30 and daughter 12) with whom I feel most at home. This way I get to speak much more German and I have a far more social environment than in a dorm. Plus, the daughter can help me with my homework :-)