May - an update

This month has been pretty busy. I've had my last uni presentation (well at least the last one for the bachelor course). And I can't wait to finish the course in two months. This week I've applied for Masters, but unfortunately the cutoff mark is very high, and my marks are not... so I'm optimistic, but also realistic. If I don't get in this year, then I might do some work experience somewhere and then reapply next year. In 2012 another two other universities (apart from mine) are going to be offering Masters, making it three options in total.

We also finally made a decision about Tim's Kita. The one where he's going to now is quite far and especially with the current construction work on the metro it takes about 30 mins to get there. We also have to walk past all the prostitutes, which makes me feel fairly uncomfortable. In the meantime we got offers from two kindergartens directly near us, for an intake in August. One is another Russian/German and another just a pure German Kita. I went to visit both of them this week and although the German one is nicer in many ways (own playground, lots of space, cheaper) we decided to go with the Russian/German one, because if Tim has a chance at learning Russian I think it's very good. Unfortunately it means that he'll also be learning the Soviet/Russian mentality, but in some ways it's not a bad thing. And we can see his group room from our windows :)

Today the three of us ventured out to the former airport Tempelhof. It's now a park and we just went to have a look. There's a bbq area there, so we might come back next weekend and have a picnic.