inbetween "2" sucks!

©expat copenhagen - newcastle (aus)

©expat copenhagen - sydney bay (aus)

©expat copenhagen - uluru (aus)

once again I'm in an inbetween status. I was so enthousiastic with organising and planing everything that now 4 weeks before leaving old for new home I'm finding myself again with whired feelings. I've got time to think now. certainly thats good but too much for thinking never leads to what we call happieness!
these pictures from the time when Jen & I fell (jumped) in love should somehow represent how I should feel! happy and sad! happy to get into a new place and excited to live in denmark. but I'm not jet! Sad that I leave my homebase where I grew up where I learned everything where I've got my family,... but I'm not! I am just a mash of something and nothing!
not stressed but not relaxed, not happy but not sad, not exhausted from work, planning or scheduling but also not free of it! I just don't know!

maybe I'm too much grown up now to have these feelings again. maybe I'm philosophising too much. maybe I.... I'd love to cry and be deeply down but I can't, I'd love to be high up in the sky but I'm not!

I don't know what it is but I don't think thinking makes the thoughts about it better so I'll try to draw off attention.

28.05 to 02.06.2009

©expat copenhagen - our tour

moving sale

©expat copenhagen - beer & shrimps in gilleleje

now the rush of moving to denmark has just started. we are in moving preperation! I'm about to deconstruct fixed furniture in our old apartment and jen is sorting through her closet with lots and lots of surprises ;-) we are trying to get ride of our stuff but still there is so much there. I once read that one civilised western human beeing got 20-30.000 pieces she/he is living on! HORROR
we're trying to reduce on that.

Our apartment is a total mass due to sold pieces of furniture and total loss of their storrage! Things are in boxes and things are on the floor and things are....... no idea where that'll lead through hopefully it all works out in the end!

good news from our new apartment we'll get it fresh painted which is a great releave since wouldn't be able to come to copenhagen till we move!

We are also holding a MOVING SALE here in Vienna, 02.05.09 in 4.th District from 4 pm with beer and snacks! everyone who's intrested in our things is invited!
pictures here

boligsikring

we love denmark!

well, since we are moving there it's kind of obviouse but still this time is full of surprises! our new land lords (well friends now, Krsitina & Sune) told us that everybody who's renting in denmark is able to get the "boligsikring" a suport from the state. It's for household which is under a certain income and for apartments under 75 m²! its great and we're so happy to get that!

it's signed!

our "lejekontrakt" is singed now! Since Krsitina & Sune are moving to vienna we signed the contract here and it's quite a releave to have everything fixed now. next task is to find an electricity suport, internet & maybe landline!?

special thanks to Krsitina & Sune for your great help

from 110 m² to 40 m²

©expat copenhagen -tetsuya, his first ride in a christiania!

moving isn't easy! moving isn't always fun! and moving when you leave country is quite hard work! with us there is a certain fact that makes our moving very hard!

here in Vienna we moved into a nice apartment in the 4th district which is very cheap for the size. it has 3 rooms, kitchen, bathroom,... and 110 m² so very big!!!

in Copenhagen we will move into a very very nice apartment in Christianshavn with a reasionable price for the location! it's got only one room less and but a lot less sqare meter, 40!!!

we'll need to get ride of a lot of stuff! not only furniture but also "the cultural waste" one accumulates over time which is never used again! we'll hold one or two markets with friends and hope that we'll be able to get ride of the stuff!

back & planning

©expat copenhagen - jen & tetsuya in a christiana bike in front of the theater

after beautiful Easter Holidays in Salzburg with my family we're back in Vienna. Now the planning and the moving is getting closer. The date of leaving is approaching and still so many things to do!
As we are only partly well organized, I've decided to have a look at the martha steward tip's for moving which Jen already did months before! These are simple handy lists with chapters 2 month before 6 weeks,.....
Well if it helps!

It was so strange coming back to our old apartment in Vienna, it seemed to be so empty and lifeless! Im already thinking of what I have to see before I leave. Well, we'll miss Vienna and there'll be times when we'll think back! BUT these days have to come and when they come we're in beautiful Copenhagen which means we've made it! ;-)

with all the stress we've somehow left aside our ambition of learning danish continously. As our course starts again next monday we'll have to repeat some stuff!

massive light on the end of the tunnel!

jen's parents said, when one door is shut another will open up!

that's so true with my situation! I didn't get the funding/scholarship for the intern and only got the possibility to work without payment! till today, I got a interview and was totally frank which I thought isn't the right thing but I couldn't help to let it all out! AND

it worked. Anyhow either I must have been so pathetic or so clear that I want this that finally the guy from MAPT said that he'll put me on an assignment and that it's gona be a free lance relation ship! MAN I LOVE IT!

2.

This morning already started great cos we got a sms that told us that we, although the long struggle, can have the apartment!!

SO WE GONA LIVE IN CHRISTIANSHAVN!

AND I'LL WORK FOR MAPT!

sometimes live's got great turns to offer and that's what makes it liveable!!!

shit happenz

it all went just too fine! till yesterday noon!

pretext.

we came to copenhagen started to seek apartments and also visited the lovely apartment we've posted earlier! We really liked it, jen fall in love with it and the surrounding. Just I was a little uncertain! We had a great Saturday with lots and lots of sunshine and got in love with our new hometown!

but then.

1.

driving the christiania with the doggy is just impossible right now! he's so frightened that he's jumping out which is not a good thin between lots of traffic! So riding the christiania with Jen and the doggy in it gave me some aching muscles. We know that it'll take a while but still it's not what we've expected!

2.

we tried to find apartments aside to the place we've seen but it seems to be virtually impossible to find something nice, and not as far away as sweden (you wouldn't believe it, but we found announcements where they say, the apartment is 15 min away from cph center, close to malmö central station! wtf??) under 8.000.-kr!

So we sad we'll take the lovely small place we've posted earlier but we found out that they'll be seeing other tenants today because I sounded uncertain! well we'll know it maybe till early afternoon!

3.

I DIDN'T GET THE SCHOLARSHIP

yes it's definitive I am not able to do a normal internship without doing a side job to survive!

well it had to be the hard way! it's crises time and why shouldn't it hit us, too! I know I'd be able to make it but it would have been good for the start!

4.

I've got two interviews today and I've got no idea how to turn it and how to position myself.

last time I was frank to everybody it didn't really turn out to be good for me. I've no idea! Danish people sometimes leave you quite uncertain! Just that i have the problem that I hate to lie! (normally not a bad attitude,maybe not in real life!) I hope that I'm still optimistic after the afternoon!

5.

We've found the perfect "cykler" for us and our doggy, the Nihola it's great to ride and easy for jen, tetsuya and me! BUT it costs 16.000 kr. and is far out of budget!

BUT'S

we still want this!

I still want to work here!

we are still optimistic to find a nice place to live!

I'll find a job and if necessary a side- and a second side job!

WE'LL MAKE IT!

I'm always reading a german business magazine brand eins and there was an article about a company that is now during the crisis hiring loads and loads of people to grow! the guy in the interview sad, everybody who swims with the stream has to take the bumps and the turns of it. Everybody who's not has a hard time but he's still in hand of his road!

I JUST LOVE THAT!

so lets swim against the stream!!!!

it's time to go now !!!!

©expat copenhagen - flying tetsuya ;-)

I'm at work and it's just 2 more hours before I leave the office to run home and jump into the car to go north. Strange that feeling! I'm so excited about what I'll be seeing on that journey.

Will we find a proper apartment?
Will I be able to say " I've got a job now"?
Will we find out which area is the nicest for a start in cph?
Will Jen be able to get into a study program?
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.
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and finally
Will Tetsuya like Copenhagen!?

Well one thing is for sure, we're looking forward to some northern spring sun. Maybe have some nice walks and cycle in the sun. So far my last post from Vienna.
More next week directly from Copenhagen! Now it's time to get ready, though Vienna is showing it's lovely face today: 20 degrees, people sipping aperol spritzers in the sun, and beautiful sunshine!