What a day. My appointment was at 10am, at which I was hoping to receive my Aufenthaltstitel, allowing me to live and work here in Germany. But first, I needed to go get €35 to pay for it. I managed that without an issue and got to the Buergerdienst in a likewise fashion.
As Rachel had explained to me when she went, it took about 1.5 hours because your appointment time "is more of an approximate time in which they will see five other people". I got there early, about 9:45, thinking it would be best if I wasn't late for something so important. I get there, go into the waiting room for a little bit and then frantically search through all of my papers to find the passport photo that I had with me last time. I couldn't find it anywhere, after scrounging through my bag, I realized that I also didn't have my passport. I look at the time and see that it's 10:00, I poke my head in, and she told me to wait outside because she was still working with people. I wait until the person came out, and then as I was walking towards the door, another man slipped in before the door shut. A frowned, but dealt with it anyways, I think he had been there for maybe a longer time, I can't say. As he left, a man and a woman came out of no where and walked right in as I was approaching the door. I sighed, looked up at the clock, and realized I could have gone home and come back with my passport in the amount of time I had waited. After a few more minutes, I figured 'Hey, they don't seem to do anything on-time, I'll run home, grab my passport, look for my photo and come back.'
I walked home very quickly, and it was warm out, so I got home feeling a little damp. I found my passport pretty easily, flipped through it to look for the picture, set it down, then continue looking through my drawers. I gave up and quickly went back, I knew it was in my things somewhere.
I arrived back at about 10:30, and no one was in sight. I knocked and walked in and she helped me with everything just like that. It also turned out that she had taped my picture to one of the back of my documents. What a relief! But, I left my passport on my desk! How could I have done that? Oh well, I gave her what I had, told her I forgot it, but she had scanned it the last time, so it wasn't an issue. Then she looked over my bank documents she said it wasn't enough again. That scared me. Apparently when I wrote down I had a Stipendium (Scholarship) I was supposed to have a separate document. I wasn't told that, and all my money was already in the account that I showed her. She spoke with the other lady, and she said it was fine, again, relief. Then she told me that I wouldn't actually be getting the ID for another 4 weeks... Things take too long here. I think it was something about being registered with Berlin. Oh well.
In other news, I was finally going to have my first Dynamiks class! Yay, less worrying, finally. I get to class early, settle in and wait. The room could probably hold 60, so when there were only 7 or so other people and no teacher 5 minutes after I was worried. It was then that some other guy came in and said something about the third floor. I was pretty sure my list said the room I was in. We went to the third floor and saw a sign there (not outside of the classroom) saying the class was cancelled until the 5th. Another week and a half, of course! [What's worse is, several days later, I realized the 5th is the first day of Easter Break. Really? Sneaky and annoying teacher...]
I get home, meet up with Rachel to see if she wanted to go food shopping, at which point in time she asks if I wanted to go see The Hunger Games. It seemed abrupt, but hey, why not, I had time. We reserved seats in the Cinemax and the tickets were 7,60 or something. It seemed a little high, but that was fine with me. We wandered around, I bought some food to eat during the show, we get to a movie theater, tell her our reservation number, and she asked "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"? We said no, that's not what we wanted, we wanted the Hunger Games at 5. Turns out Mannheim has both a "Cinemax" and a "Cineplex". We said we wanted tickets for the 5:30 showing of it from here then, since we hadn't purchased any. They were 9,90 each. That hurt a little bit, but we bought them and then had 30 minutes longer to kill.
We wandered around and found a little home made (I think) gummi store. At first we were just looking, then the owner handed us each a freshly made easter bunny and we continued looking through the store. There were normal things, and then there were these:
(They also had Playboys. I'm pretty sure these don't qualify as the "Bears" in "Bearland")
I ended up buying Saure Fruchtsaft-Johannisbeeren, which is sour fruitjuice currants. Sooo delicious! I only knew about them because my mom had sent me some in a care package while I was still at ISU. Rachel ended up getting sour cherry cola gummis. They honestly tasted like cherry cola wrapped in sour sugar. Not a fan of the cola, but it wasn't bad. As for my bag, I probably ate half of it during the movie. I thought the Gospel music being played while we were waiting seemed a little out of place.
(Long, but great! movie!)
I ended up getting home at about 9, went out and bought a few essentials: milk, muesli, yogurt, went to sleep about 11.
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