To bring a German dictionary ("in case there are some problems with the Internet connection during the semester") was the best last minute decision I have ever made.

Second day:

- I spent 15 minutes looking for "Help for international students" office, feeling like an idiot that I can't find it even though there are signs all over the place. Turns out I am not an idiot; they moved the office to a completely different place but left the old signs there.

- Someone's milk spilled all over my food in the fridge. 

- That's it for the less fortunate part of the second day! Yay!

Now for the awesome part:
- I had a 15 minute dialog in German all the way through (!!) which successfully led to me signing up in the public library. They don't have wifi there but I can use their computers to check my e-mails and to look up places where I need to register for classes and such.

- I now have Internet on my cell phone and my credit card is activated again.

- I have my very own mailbox! „grin“-Emoticon

- I took U-bahn for the first time and got to celebrate St. Patrick's day with some really nice foreign exchange students and ESN people „smile“-Emoticon (And for those who know my sense of direction: I HAVEN'T GOT LOST!)

Questions of the day:
- Where does one buy hangers?!
- How to decide on the size of the trash can bags? (Of course I bought them too small. And now the spiders from my salad don't have enough space.)