my new home

it's kind of definite now: i'll be living in a "Plattenbau" ("apartment building made from prefabricated cement-slabs", says the dictionary), outside of the inner city, reachable by tram in about 15-20 minutes.
i haven't seen the inside yet; i'll be picking up the key later today, though. (i'll take pictures for you.) -- the street is very adequately named: Karl-Marx-Street... (i think that's a good sign.)
[for the americans: these kinds of buildings were/ are cliché-typical for the former GDR. so the name of the street really matches the architecture.]

the good things are: (a) it's university-owned, so the prices are low (151 Euros), (b) i conquered the biggest room of the three-persons-flat (20 square meters), (c) i'll be living with two girls who seem reasonable, (d) it's furnished, so i don't really need to move more than my backpack.
the bad thing is: i'll have to move out at the end of the year, as the building needs reconstruction. but the semester ends only in the middle of february (lectures end) / 1st of april (semester ends). so i will have to move again. and search. *eeek* -- but i'll just think of that later, i guess.
it's really hard to find a place to live here, apparently. people are searching for months. crazy!
also: prices are crazy (in comparison to Göttingen, which, in the end, is still the more attractive city and place to live). example: i probably could have had a 11qm-room for 230 Euros, whereas i had that beautiful room in Göttingen, in a beautiful building, in a beautiful area for the same price, but having 26qm or so.

anyway: my room in göttingen was so nicely and artfully arranged -- and totally crammed with all my stuff. that stuff is spread over friends' garrets now (and already has been for a while) -- and i'll be staying with other people's furniture in the cliché-most-ugly place ever. well! that's exciting, huh? but i really don't care. i don't mind to dwell like that for a while. i have done that before and if you don't like your 'home', you'll spend more time in the library. working. ugly homes make productive! ;-)
this time, next year -- i'll be in berlin. let's see.