there

we made it

after a long long long trip finally to our now home! it's been hard and exhausting but now that we had our first night here we're finally happy!

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

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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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!

copenhagen visit

apartment in christianshavn - all pictures from sune spang

we've got new plans! our next (third) Copenhagen visit is scheduled from the 3rd to the 10th of April. We hope we'll have nice spring weather for our numerous "assignments"!

1. boliger

as we already posted and talked to many people to,we'll be able to visit the lovely apartment of our new and first copenhagen friends, Kristina & Sune in Christianshavn! Since we have talked so much about it and we have seen so many pictures and heard so many nice stories about the area we are very much excited to finally see the place. BUT we'll also have a look at other hopefully beautiful apartments which will either confuse us with additional choice or help us by picking the right one!

which means that the easter bunny will know where we stay for the first time in denmarks delightful capital.

2.cpr

with a little luck we'd be able to register for the public identification number, cpr number. it's a funny scandinavian system, without it you kind of don't exist and can't get a library card, a dankort for paying stuff and so on. I think we'll have to convince them that we can sustain ourselves somehow to get one. how, we still have to figure out. it could be very helpful if we'd be able to get it I guess!

3. work / uni

for me some work interviews are coming up, finally I hope that I'll find a position for the first couple of month. I've applied for a young architects work scholarship which will help me to find work and enables me to work as an intern. still these days architects are having troubles because of 9/11, oh sorry with the financial crisis or whatever,....

jen, is now applying for 2 different universities and 3 different courses! well, you never know which works out in the end!

4.prepaid card

we'll check out a 'three' mobile phone prepaid card. we'll post our new numbers soon!

5. explore the city!

tetsuya (our lovely doggy), jen and I will explore the city with rented bikes from København Cykler close to the train station or Baisikeli which uses part of the rental fee to renovate bikes and send them over to africa, which is kind of a nice thing. I'll try our to ride a christiania or comparable bike for the first time with tetsuya in front. I'm a bit afraid he might not like it and try to jump out of the basket! well we'll put a nice soft and cosy blanket in it for him and maybe tie him for our first couple of rides!

6. new people,

we'll try to get to know new people to make new friends to have some fun and to go out for some parties! jeh! some jazz music maybe!

all in all we are really looking forward to visiting our future hometown again, some spring air and hopefully an apartment and some more insights when we come back!

Servus and Baba,

Jen & Paul

07.07.2009 i København

©expat copenhagen - jen's pullover & our KoL Tickets!

©expat copenhagen - collage of habour bath

since last time we've been to copenhagen we're big big big fans of kings of leon! the last concert in copenhagen was a real great experience. they're live as good or better as on their albums!

last time we were in cph we desperately wanted to see them, but of course the concert was totally sold out and we already buried our hopes of going there. but then the night of the concert when we were just walking out of the stylo hostel near islands brygge where we were staying at, paul suddenly stopped at the reception and pointed at a small note from an australian guy who wanted to get rid of this tickets because he had to leave earlier. we didn't hesitate for a second and half an hour later we were enjoying one of the best live gigs I have seen so far. danish people really know how to party! in vienna people are really lame and quiet during concerts, but wow, the danes know how to rock the house!!!
well, this time round, we secured tickets as soon as we could get them and we are already exited about next time at kings of leon in july.