Adventures of Wes and Laura

Ya tenemos apartamento y bicicletas!!! More about the bikes and new apartment

Hola familia!
Por dicha las bicicletas aparecieron el jueves. La caja de mi bicicleta estaba destruida, pero la bici no sufrio muchos danhos, solamente los frenos y los cambios se arruinaron. Wes fue a un taller para bicicletas, donde le prestaron las herramientas para que arreglara ambas.

Otra buena nueva es que ya tenemos apartamento. Esta muy cerca de la estacion del tren, el vecindario es bonito, con edificios viejos que sobrevivieron la segunda guerra mundial. Nuestro apartamento esta en uno de esos edificios, el apartamento en si es muy pequenho, parecido al tamanho del apartamento de Jaime en San Jose. El banho es diminuto, la cocina tambien. La refri es super pequenha, no hay microondas, no hay lavadora, ni secadora... suena como pais sub-desarrollado...ejejejeje. Pero la verdad estamos contentos en el lugar. Es bien limpio, con pisos de madera, calefaxion, vetanas grandes con vista a un area verde. Ademas hay un varios supermercados cerca, cafes, restaurantes y bares cerca. Aqui tambien hay muchos turcos y arabes, es verdaderamente una mezcla de culturas. La senhora que nos renta el apartamento es una francesa, super buena gente, con tres ninhas, parece estudiante, pero es una doctora en ecologia...

Ahorita estamos conectados en un cafe que tiene internet.

Wes aun no ha entrado a trabajar, el inicia el lunes. Yo comenze el lunes pasado. La gente en el instituto es super amable. Mi jefa es super joven y buena gente. Estoy concertando entrevistas con personal encargado de reservas de la biosfera en los Estados Unidos, por el momento.


We've been so busy these last fews days and been unlucky with the Internet but let me catch everyone up. Finally I received a call Thursday from Luftansa, letting me know that they had found the bikes! Who knows where they had been, but as you can see the box containing Laura's bike was half destroyed, and one of my boots which I had packed inside was missing. But the good news is the bikes were(now mine needs a little repair) not too beat up to assemble them and since then we've been exploring more of Berlin by bike.


The other big news is that we've found an apartment Friday we moved in (see laura outside below). The location is excellent - we're in the Schoeneburg district, and 250 yards from the entrance to the Kleistpark metro station. It's in between our too work places in an Altbau (old building built before the war), on the first floor with a nice little courtyard and east facing windows. The outside of the building is a little dirty but we've been cleaning up and settling in. We're within walking distance from many little grocery stores, bakeries, and great restaurants. This morning we went jogging in a park behind the courthouse also very close to our apartment. This afternoon we're off to the Egyptian museum in city center if we can.

Last night we found a street festival going on just two blocks from the house. This gives you a picture of the neighborhood

We'll write again soon. Tomorrow Laura returns to work and I go to Ecologic for my first day.

posted by Wes and Laura @ 9/02/2006 11:05:00 AM