Well it has been a busy week for me! I was able to find a nanny job here in Stuttgart starting Monday. I will be watching a four month old baby for an American family here in the military. The schedule is perfect as they are leaving mid June and are going to be flexible with my travel plans. The only unfortunate part is that I have to be at their house by 7:00 am four days a week. It is a good thing that I am a morning person because I have to be out the door by 5:30 to walk to the train station and catch the 6 am train. Either way I am excited to have something to do and a bit of extra spending money. I am still planning to learn German and apply for jobs in the States while the baby sleeps. I am also putting up a posting at the local library and adult school advertising my availability for English tutoring.
I have not had any other major adventures this week so I figure I would share some pictures of our apartment. For those that do not know, we live on Sperberweg in Boeblingen in the basement apartment of a single family home. This neighborhood up the hill from the city and near the woods is mostly single family homes. There are tons of large apartments near the train station. I am about a 20 minute walk from Aldi and Lidl for groceries, 10 minutes from the woods with tons of walking paths, and 30 minutes from the city center and train station.
*The left is the master bedroom, center is the hallway between the bedrooms, and right is the spare bedroom which currently houses a small couch and my bike.
*The picture to the right here is the wonderful framed art in our bedroom. "Philosophie eines Strichmännchens" translates to "The Philosophy of a stick figure". If you look closely at the small drawings you can see that the stick figures are naked females with very round bosoms and naked males with erect members. I have not translated all of the quotes under the pictures yet but I can only imagine what they mean.
*To the left is the living room, below and center is the hallway/entryway, and below and right is the kitchen. The bathroom is off the hallway/entryway and looks pretty much like an American bathroom so I did not consider it picture worthy. The only difference would be that our clothes washing machine is in the bathroom.
We have a pretty sweet patio in the backyard with a woodburning grill and patio set. I am excited for summer so that I can drink a beer and read outside in the yard. The apartment has full wall windows in nearly every room to maximize natural light. Fortunately the border of the yard is lined with trees for privacy and all of the windows have the wonderful European blinds that create complete darkness in a room. Anyway, this is where we live and where I have spent quite a bit of time the last two weeks.
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