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So my first post! So much to tell, unfortunately most of it is about my job :( Which actually is pretty good. But I'll get to that in a later post. This weblog is going to enable me not to have to include a recent description of what I've been doing in every email I send to people. So check back regularly 'cause I'm gonna try to keep this current.

So here I am for the next six months living in Tuebingen, Germany. Many of you might wonder where that is (if anyone is reading, come on people post comments!)? I'm about 45 minutes away from Stuttgart, 3 hours from Munich (or an eternity with the "affordable option"), 3 hours from Strasbourg, 3 from Zurich, 6 from Amsterdam, 5 from Paris, and 8 from any reasonably beautiful beach worth visiting. Why do I all know this? Because I'm looking for somewhere to go tomorrow. But its a pretty good location for traveling.

Tuebingen is beautiful, even without sun, warm\dry weather, and green vegetation. It has been pretty dismal lately and spring hasn't quite set in, but the altstadt (old city) and surrounding areas are beautiful, and with a little imagination involving sun, warm\dry weather, and green foliage, I think that city really is going to be something to brag about. But that sorta leads me to the not-so-great thing about Tuebingen - where I live :( Picture Chornobyl, throw in some piles of human excrement, dead babies, a swirl of fiery death hovering above in the sky (sorta like that mountain in Lord of the Rings), and anything else that is as horrible as anything can possible imagine, and that is where I live.

Okay, not really. I would liken the Waldhauser Ost Studenten Dorf (where I live) to say, Sterling Peaks in Boulder. Sorta out of the way and ugly. The only good thing I got is a good view. But I really can't complain considering the rent is sooo low. This picture sorta gives you an idea of my wonderful location:

Here are some additional pics of the city:



But the view certainly is good from my apartments's porch:

So far, everyone from AIESEC Tuebingen has been really helpful. Everyone, I mean everyone, is gone this time of year. It's sorta like summer vacation now for German students (and they get another in late summer). So I've only meet one of my roommates and two of the 30 or so AIESECers.

My job really is pretty good. At least the first week. It's all in German and everyone has to speak like a 8 year old to me so I can understand, then I respond and sound like a half retarded 2 year old; good thing it's only my first week. In the office got my own desk, computer, file thingy, unlimited supply of office supplies, and 12 seemingly cool co-workers. Its still early so I don't know my normal routine but already this first week I'm reorganizing one of our websites and rewriting the content. Google International Business Exchange Forum (IBEF) or click here in about a week to see my final result. Complete overhaul baby!!

So I think that's about enough. Tomorrow I go to Heidelberg in a one day sightseeing blitz. Shoot me an email an let me know how things are going.