The Munich/Bayerisch experience

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My life in Munich part 4

Life is all about moments, so far I've had some hilarious and special ones in Munich.

One always needs a friend of the first hour:
I am more then happy to have met Steph.
A funny, talkative and charming mixed Munich Femina, with a Romanian father and German mother. She is from Düsseldorf and we actually met through Kaja.
As much as we can, we hangout together and as from half of december we hope to be moving in together.
She is currently working on a project for starcookers. A gourmet team which strives for becoming the best gourmet site of Europe.
Lets see how far they get www.starcookers.de

Kees makes the rules
As I just moved in to my new apartment there were a few rules I received from my boss, to which we all have to 'obey'
For example:
We cannot do our laundry when we are not at home. Why?
Because once my colleague/roommate Kees did his laundry and the neighbours started complaining about water running through the walls of their house.
Another example; we are not allowed to have friends and family over in our apartment. Why?
Because once, Kees had a girl over to stay. The girl also worked for my company and the next day she was called in for a chat with our boss. By accident she let the words slip from her mouth: 'I stayed over at Kees'. Hence no visitors allowed.
We are also not allowed to smoke (I dont smoke), phew..
Way below you will find a pic of our dishwasher.....
Soon we will not be allowed to use the dishwasher anymore ;)

Besides my new home and work I have explored a little bit of Munich's nightlife together with Steph.

Alter Ofen, a nice bar that reminds me of Dutch bar/café's. Meaning: the place loosk like its filled with a bar, tables, chairs and music.No purpose it seems......yet with some of the interior peaces one can create a nice Halloween outfit

Left: Roger Murphy (Ireland)

Right: Kees

Below: a view on foggy Munich from the Olypmia Tower

I'm sending you a smile

Munich memoires by Steph Kozak

Dear All,
it's a rainy Tuesday afternoon, my boss is due to come back shortlyand until she starts breathing down my neck, I figured I'd use thismoment to write you all a note.
I had a lousy day last Tuesday, as you all may have gathered butthings looked up immensly after work. Met Floor for a drink and wewound up going to this Drink night with a bunch of Ex-Pats from allover the English-speaking world. Met some really nice peopleactually!! Wednesday was relaxed, Thursday (I can't actually remember)was cool too and then the weekend began. Friday night Floor and I meta bunch of people for the Sneak Preview at 11 and watched Atonement(beautiful film). On Saturday, Floor and I went into town and lookedat all the beautiful things we want to buy. Jordan, our new Canadian,Internet-Genius, aspiring Sex Therapist friend joined us for a walkaround town in the rain. Floor and I then decided on a spontaneoussleepover at mine, so we got rid of Jordan after dinner and lazilywatched a movie from bed. Sunday we went to a coffee shop to surf theweb with our laptops and to be lazy and have coffee. Her colleaguesjoined us in the afternoon, where we went to the top of the OlympiaTower. The elevator travels at a velocity of 7m per second to theheight of 190m. I nearly barfed upon arrival. Sadly, it was quitefoggy and thus the view was a little marred but we still had a ball.Went for dinner, me and the three dutch and then checked out thiscosy, tiny irish pub a five minute walk from my place. The bartenderwas not as nice as I am used to though (I know what some of you arethinking - shut it) and was quite rude in fact... We wound up stayingquite late... That's where I decided that I wanted to move in withFloor instead of trying to find a new flat with my whiny,high-maintenance, completely chaotic current flatmate...
Which I told her Monday morning at 7:45 when instead of saying goodmorning, she decided to bitch at me for not being Cinderella thisweekend and cleaning the place. Fair enough, I haven't been Mr. Cleanbut she's the one who makes the mess and has the time to clean it. I'mnot going to waste anymore energy on getting upset with her becausebottom line is, we're seperating on good terms. Hooray! So lots of funfilled Munich-exploration with Floor!Work is crazy busy as always. We're launching on Thursday, soeverybody needs to check out the Website then - I'll make sure to posta link. My clients are still driving me crazy - the only way I manaedto diffuse the situation last Tuesday and get what I needed was tostart crying. Okay, so I didn't burst into tears sitting on theirdesks, which I will probably try at a later date, I was sitting at myown desk crying into my notes when their Webdesigner walked in andtook pity on me. Sometimes, being a woman is amazing.
Am incredibly tired. Managed to confuse the snooze button with the offbutton this morning and woke up at 8:28 (an hour too late). I managedshower, make-up, half-assed hair drying and getting dressed in tenminutes. Be very impressed. Also, I was only 15 minutes late! TheBus-Gods were smiling down on me.
After two lonely months in Munich, the moment I finally find things todo, my parents have decided to come visit Thursday til Sunday. So therest of the week will be busy - work work work, drinks tonight,perhaps Halloween celebration tomorrow (yeah, we need to discuss thistonight Floor!), finally some sleep on Thursday, parents stuff andwork Friday, perhaps movies after dinner and then we'll see!

Steph xx

The group: Kees and Alice (my colleagues), Steph and me on the Olympia Tower

Steph Kozak




Below, me in my favourite outfit at Ludwig Beck, jacket Flora Smith

Munich has culture: Beer, Beergartens, Octoberfest and its a shopping walhalla

If you're not a millionaire be warned: one must better be good at windowshopping

In Ljubljana it seemed I didnt need anything and shopping was far from my mind.

Though in Munich it almost seems that from all the beautifull designerstuff, delicacies and pretty people around one gets greedy

The city first appears like a little museum and to be honest quite superficial, but the curtains are slowly opening.

Every day of the year it has something to offer for once needs and wishes

More needs to explored!

Kees, my roommate decided to do the dishwash....instead of using a tablet he used dishwash liquid it turned out to be a pic to freeze the moment

To be continued...