Adapting

I’m in a kind of “get stuff done”/”keep going”/”survival” mode right now, so the creative writing urge has taken a back burner. Since my last post, I: Found an apartment in Hamburg (before and after pics will be a 2018 highlight). It is an altbau (pre WWII) flat. So it’s old. I can hear my […]

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Wohnung Gesucht

banana bread and coffee to lift my spirits after a long morning of house hunting. Everyone says how difficult it is to find a flat in Hamburg. “It took me 5 months.” “There are lines of 40 people at showings.” “You need to sell yourself.” But they said that about Frankfurt. I learned I need […]

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4 Bags & a Yoga Mat

Not pictured: 4th bag. I left Frankfurt with 4 bags of clothes (1 of only coats) and a yoga mat, not sure how I was going to manage. But lately I’m not sure how I’m going to manage almost everything in my life. So my strategy is to just start. I arrived in Hamburg Thursday […]

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