🚀 go-pugleaf

Ich poste einige Auszuege zweier Mails die ich aus NZ bekommen habe. Der Mensch
will fuer ca. 3 Monate in Deutschland bleiben und sucht ein Quartier, am besten
in einer WG. Falls sich jemand angesprochen fuehlt oder sonstwie weiterhelfen
kann bitte direkt an David mailen.


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From PSYC324@csc.canterbury.ac.nz 
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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 16:59 +1300
From: PSYC324@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: danke und mehr fragen...
To: steffen@fb3-s7.math.tu-berlin.de
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I wonder if you can help me again.  I'm going to be in Germany for three
months, until end of Feb., and apart from doing a bit of travelling really I
want to find a room in a flat, preferably with some students.  I am visiting
for two main reasons - one is I want to improve on my German (I've only had one
year at Uni. so far) and be introduced to German culture; the other is that I
have to work on my thesis (for MA) so I'd like to be somewhere near a
University so I can work in the library.  I figure that it being winter the
library will seem like a pretty attractive place and I'll get lots of work done
on the thesis - that's the theory anyhow.

Do you know what the situation is like for finding a room with students who
attend TUB for example?  If you know of anyone actually looking for a flatmate
for a bit that would of course be the most wonderful of all possibilities.  

Thank you for your help.  It is more than a little scary going to a country
with a different language and where I know no-one!

Regards

David Youngmeyer
Department of Psychology
University of Canterbury
NZ

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Yep, you made it sound bad, but also that there is hope!
I'm flexible as far as where I stay, which city.  For example, Berlin would be
okay, or where ever.  The only proviso I have is that I want to stay in a
university town/city.  Sharing a flat with some students is the kind of thing I
had in mind.  Not only because it would be one of the cheaper options, but also  
because I want to know what it is like to *live* in Germany as oppposed to what
it is like to be a tourist there.  My aim altimately is to live/work/study in
Germany so this is kind of the expeditionary trip to see what the waters are
like.

I arrive in Frankfurt on 27 November.  My airline ticket for leaving is open
but I can only stay three months as a visitor without a permit, and I have to
be back for the new term starting March 1992.  So I plan to leave Germany end
of February.  I would like to get a place for that whole time, and maybe travel
a bit during that period too.  

Any town/city is okay - friends tell me that Berlin is really a neat city.  But
my German tutor said that it would be culture shock because it is on such a
diffeent scale to here.  I guess I'll get used to it though.

Maybe some personal detail may help?  I'm 26, like squash and skiing, work in
the uni. library as a part time job, photography is an interest (esp. black &
white), and people tell me that I am easy to talk to.  My landlady seems to
like me too!

I appreciate your help.  Will you put this on your local/national net?

Have you ever been over to this part of the world?  Just curious.

Regards, David

Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, NZ


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