Mmmm, winter.

Another list:

1. The winter coat that I brought with me (and that took up about half of my big suitcase) is finally out of the closet. Probably a few days later than it should have been, considering it's been quite cold here for the past few days.

2. Remember the post I wrote a few weeks ago saying that I'd been paid too much and had let the people who pay us know about it? Well, last week I heard from them, and they said that my September payment was "in Ordnung," i.e., correct, and that I didn't need to give them any money back, and that from now on I'll be getting the standard 703€ a month. And I thought, fine.

Then, yesterday, I went to check my bank account and saw that I'd already been paid for October - except that the sum I'd received was 542€. Which, last time I checked, does not equal 703€. I don't know what to do about this.

3. A sparrow has managed to get into the internet cafe and is now proceeding to bang itself continuously against the large windows, hoping to get out. I feel a strange sense of sympathy with it.