One month as a hipster Berliner

Hallo,

It’s been a while since I updated and a lot has happened in the past few weeks. If you’ve been following along on my Tumblr, I was keeping a daily journal of everything I did my first few weeks living a hipster summer #inberlin. While looking for summer jobs in Berlin I’ve had a LOT of fun, and as it turns out, I even found a job in Berlin! Quick summary of some of the tumblr highlights include some things like this:

• 17 july: met some random people in a club who worked for soundcloud
• 19 july: went to dr. pong’s for the first time (bar where people play table tennis)
• 20 july: found out about a potential job (the one I took) at a couchsurfing meetup
• 23 july: finished my third moleskine since i started traveling (photo)
• 24 july: couchsurfing bbq and smart conversations with nice people
• 25 july: successful job interview; went to a 4-hour-workweek work group meeting
• 29 july: partied in kreuzberg at u-bahn; first learned about a band called the xx
• 31 july: drank LOTS of wine & watched tv shows with friends till dawn
• 1 august: got an eyebrow piercing
• 2 august: accepted a summer job offer in berlin; rode my bicycle around in the nice weather

I stopped writing more #inberlin stories over a week ago. Why? I couldn’t keep up. Things only got more awesome and I decided I didn’t want to share too much. Plus, once I got behind on updating, I couldn’t catch up. Original plan was to it straight for 30 days. I think I might start it up again soon though, possibly as a vlog (video blog) on YouTube (Check out my travel blog channel on YouTube). Thoughts? Suggestions? Is anyone interested? Is this just a completely narcissistic exercise in lieu of me writing in my actual journal, my fourth Moleskine? (Actually, now I’ve got a fifth Moleskine as well because my first Berlin roommates for the summer gave me a gift last weekend!)

As for getting a summer job in Berlin (well, is it really summer when the weather has been this crappy? up for discussion…), things are going interestingly. It’s an internship and my emotions on it have fluctuated a lot. It’s a bit weird to be thinking of things like buying a comforter at IKEA and setting up a local bank account rather than finding the best deal on travel insurance, but I’ve started adjusting. I’ll be sharing more about how I got a job in Berlin, what it was like deciding to live in Berlin for a while, and so on and so forth. In summary, though, I’ll share this: Berlin is awesome.

The end.

Greets,
Adam