A new home?

Today was my first full day in Berlin. I spent a lot of it just walking around and trying to figure out what the best deals on cell phones were. Yes, I'm buying a cell phone; I figure that I'm now a professional, sort of, and I should probably be reachable if people from school need to talk to me. I'm still figuring out how to use the one I ended up buying, but I'll be sending the number along to people after I get it up and running.

In the evening, I met with the people I'll hopefully be rooming with this year. They are two German students, both 32, although they seem younger. I don't mean that in a bad way; they just seemed like people I know from back home, people my age. I went over to the apartment at 7, and they gave me a tour. At first, my German was stalling a bit; when they were showing me through the various rooms, I couldn't think of much to say besides "nice" and "cool." When we were back in the kitchen, though, I got into the groove a little more, and we had a nice chat. They are actually living with a former teaching assistant now, who's moving out on Friday, so they're used to dealing with Americans, I think. We agreed that we'd have a two-week grace period after I moved in, after which we could decide if everyone was okay with me staying for a year. I hope it works out; both of them seem really nice, the price is good, the apartment is in an interesting part of the city - so we'll see. They invited me for dinner on Monday, which is also my first day at school, so I'll presumably have a lot to report.