Got my place!

I'm pretty excited at the moment having got my place! As of yesterday I am a confirmed participant in a summer travel guide program in Berlin - with a 50/50 split between learning German and researching and working on the aforementioned guide. Having only applied for it 8 days ago I think this has turned out to be serendipitous in pretty much the best sense of the word. Squeaking in at the last minute helped give my application clarity or they recognised the awesomeness that is my English lit degree and support work experience! Irrelevant?! Pah! Relevant interests are for people with a career plan!

2 months spent working in a foreign capital is going to be a real eye opener and it means I can tick off my one big new years resolution - live in a foreign country in 2010! It's really not a long working holiday, honest. My one worry is lack of laptop love because in the land of the graphic suite the mac holding man is king, and all I have is a willing but ageing asus. I love that thing but it wasn't fit for purpose 5 years ago so I don't hold out high hopes for it now. 

Talking about ageing hardware and we come to the fantastic news that all the major political parties can finally agree on high speed rail as the way forward for commuters and economic hubs in the country. The fact that almost the entirety of western Europe has embraced this trend a good 15-20 years before this story ever splashed onto the Indy's distinguished pages is one that cannot easily be overlooked however. 

Back to the internship - having crippled myself financially with a deposit for accomodation I can now happily be poor for a while. Maybe that camera will have to wait.....