Dresden!

I arrived in Dresden, the city where I will live and volunteer until mid-December, on Wednesday the 14th. I haven't been able to get on the internet since then, until now. It's Friday afternoon and I'm in my new workplace for the first time - a kindergarten called Pat's Bunnyhouse (how logical for me) that teaches kids in both German and English from a young age. Pretty clever in a way.

My apartment is located in the Altstadt, which means old city, but you wouldn't know it because there are tons of big shopping centres right near where I live! It's just a name from long ago that has stuck I suppose. It's on the eighth floor of a modernish apartment building and has 3 rooms - bathroom, kitchen/entrance foyer and bedroom/loungeroom, my bed is a folding out couch that becomes quite big to sleep on, although I'm not sure if I'm going to be bothered turning it back into a couch each day. I have a TV and DVD player, and thanks to Erin, a Nintendo 64 console. Erin is a girl from Melbourne also volunteering with my program, she volunteers in a different Pat's kindergarten in Dresden. There is also Camilla from NZ doing the same, in yet another different Pat's kindergarten. Both Camilla and Erin live on the fourth floor of this building, in a double apartment (they have their own bedrooms but share a kitchen and bathroom). I visit them in the evenings mostly.

So... now I've accessed the internet and kept you up to speed with what's happening. Ask me questions about anything though!

Oh and Oliver - I checked my e-mail and there were 20 there but none from Facebook saying you wrote me a message - is it my turn to reply? Am I an idiot?