Over the past week we got about 6 inches of snow, the schools in town were even closed on Monday (pretty unheard of around here)! Now we are left with brownish grey sludge/snow on most of the sidewalks and parking is pretty tricky because there are huge piles of icy snow on the side of the roads. Last weekend we bought a Siemens fridge off of Ebay, thankfully we still have the huge Skoda rental car that it fit in the back of. We started our German lessons this week, our teacher Antje is really nice and patient. She is an art and architectural history professor at the University of Osnabruck, so I’m hoping when we are farther into our lessons she can recommend some churches/buildings we should check out while we are here. Yesterday we met with an insurance broker to start the process of getting car insurance set up since we are going to look at a couple of cars this weekend. Both are VW’s, so at least we’ll look German when we are driving around. They are both in a town on the other side of Hannover, so I’m hoping we’ll be able to look around Hannover a little on the way back.
This week we also worked on our application for International House Hunters. Morgan has been emailing back and forth with a guy from the show since we came over for our visit in September and last week he sent on over the application and told us to fill it out. I’ve got the first draft done, so now Morgan just needs to look through and see if there is anything I’ve forgotten. Tons of people fill out applications, so we’ll see what happens! I’ve been a little torn about it, I’m afraid we’ll look like dorks on TV, but I figure if we do get picked I just need to go with it… definitely a once in a life time chance!
One thing that I love about Germany is that people are always offering you tee und kaffee.. waiting at your gate at the airport in Frankfurt? – free coffee/tee/cappuccino machine to use; meeting with your account manager at the bank, taking a German lesson, meeting with an insurance broker – every time you are offered a hot drink. I think we’re going to get spoiled!
Below are a few pictures from the past few days.
