- it took some effort but I made it to the orientation day for new trainees. there's a direct bus from where I live which is nice BUT as my apartment is a bit outside of the city, the bus only stops on request at random stops among the fields and makes it a bit difficult to figure out where I need to get off. thank god for google maps and internet data working EU-wide.

- ok so Luxembourg is a very international and diverse city and as I said the use of languages is a big mess. to be polite and use the country's language, I was trying to use German at first, but it turns out even people selling train tickets or croissants speak fluent English and so it seems less painful for everyone involved to just use English (I am not sure yet but it feels like even more people speak English than German). however, the one place where it is 100% sure that there are definitely people working from all over Europe, at the European Commission.... the canteen has everything ONLY in French. thanks man, I didn't want to know what I'm eating anyway.

- instantly started hanging out with a super nice and down-to-earth Slovak girl K. who likes sarcasm, feminism and Lidl, and, most importantly, speaks Norwegian (and Danish and bazillion other languages) and a super funny laid-back Greek girl M. who says things as they are and has me and K. laughing all the time.

- Saturday: a walk through the city center which looks like from a fairytale with other trainees and a visit to a gigantic migration festival with K. and M.

- Sunday: Nazi propaganda exhibition

- tomorrow: first real working day