Hey, so my name's Beth, I'm 20 years old and have so far done 2 years at Southampton University studying BA French and German (and a lot of linguistics). As of September I'll be living in Trier (in Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany) but teaching English as an Englischassistentin in a school across the border in Saarland.
Because a) I have a terrible memory and b) it's a good way for my friends and family to get an idea of the kind of things I'll get up to I've started a blog. Right now it's just the preparations going on: I've done enough forms to fill a small office block, have established contact with my school (who seem lovely) so next item on the agenda is finding somewhere to live!
Tomorrow I'm combining a 4 day holiday with the parents with flathunting in Trier, got 4 flats lined up to look at and hopefully at least one of them will be good. I've picked them specifically for their location (10 mins or less walk from the Süd-Bahnhof as I've got a 30 min commute by train to the school) and with between 2 or 4 (German speaking) flatmates. I imagine my experiences flat hunting in Germany for the first time will form my next (and first proper) blog post, til then, auf wiedersehn!
