Busy life in a busy city

Tomorrow I've been here for two very busy weeks, busy is actually an understatement but all I can say at this point is that I really love Berlin more and more every day.

During my time here I've had only one day without any plans and that was on Sunday after I came back from the Destruction Derby Festival in Rosslau. I stayed in bed all day because I was very tired, only got a couple hours of sleep on Saturday night but it was beyond worth it. If you know me, you know that I love concerts a LOT and Berlin (and Germany in general) is like a paradise to me because almost every tour that I'd like to see comes here. Every show has been totally worth the hours spent on travels and the not so glorious number of hours slept, can't wait for the next ones!

Stick To Your Guns @ Summerblast Festival, Trier 15/08

Thy Art Is Murder @ Cassiopeia, Berlin 18/08

More Than A Thousand's last show in Germany @ Destruction Derby, Dessau-Rosslau 22/08 - definitely going to miss these guys! :(

So as it comes to the REAL reason why I came to Berlin, so far I've had the nicest time at the office. For the first week I mainly wanted to just see how everything works there and in the meantime I helped with translating some hotel and excursion descriptions as the other Finnish-speaking person is on vacation right now. Oh and I helped writing some offers to clients too.

My second week has barely started and requests keep coming in at the office as the season starts. Today I finished writing the company's newsletter for September (in English and Finnish) and they also gave me three accommodation requests for individual customers or small groups to handle. They weren't easy, lots of email-exchanging in three different languages and I even had to take a call in from a contact person... Yikes! Tomorrow I'll get to practice writing an invoice and send it since one of my today's customers wanted to book the hotel I offered to them. :)

Coffee is always a necessity

I haven't really had time to explore the city or take pictures of the neighbourhood I live in or anything yet but here's a snap of Reichstag from one of my first days here.