kaapro.com - germany

Another week just passed by and this time it went so fast that I didn't even notice the few nights at home. Life has truly kicked in a good gear! The friday evenings badminton was this time more than decent, I think I even walked out of the court with two legs unlike the last time. Although it is possible that this time we didn't play that hard and I had only one on one match!
The other super great thing was drinking with finns. For some reason there is no way any other expat can match the fun finns have in bar! Lots of drinking, lots of fun and everyone really keeps the brain away from the events ;) Safer that way when you collect your head sometime in the morning from some unknown location where you left it the last night. The crowd was extremely great and I kind of have the feeling I'll be seeing them soon for another night of mayhem!
At the office life is moving pretty fast to a direction where I'm really contributing something that I can claim to be mine without any embarrassment. Hope my colleagues feel the same way. This week is a partial work nightmare. Normal hours at the office and one additional project for the evening. The problem is that the extra work is quite interesting so I really want to do both with full performance. Could be that on Friday I'm quite dead. We will see! 

Düsseldorf is starting to bring the goods to my plate. The culinary world shows it's teeth by revealing great restaurants just few hundred meters from my home. On saturday I went to a place called Sila Thai and got really impressed! I think I managed to get the best Thai food in Europe with a very relaxing atmosphere. Another place I'm preparing to go is a Noodle bar Na Ni Wa. It's been ranked one of the best places in Düsseldorf and every time I go past it (Its on my way to work) there is a queue outside! People really seem to want there! This is not all: the amount of chinese, japanese, korean restaurants close to my home is astonishing. The european goodies are all bit further but there are some places where I'm heading quite soon also

Another fun I had during the last weekend was a game of badminton. Expats in Düsseldorf welcomed me to a game at badminton center and showed me how the game is played. After 2 hours of nonstop games I felt like I was hit by a train! The Indian and British guys were really good and showed me that they can make me run :D Loved it and will do it again next friday

Also the first visit to a club happened on Saturday. Monkey Club introduced me to electronic music in the city.  Place was smallish with a decent dance floor and two extremely well organized bars: you did't pay with cash or credit but instead everyone had a monkey card that was used to pay drinks. Fast and efficient and they even had Ciders! Parties here start around 1 and continue to the morning. Although after Fridays games I was still quite immobile so I couldn't stay that long.

Looks to me that life in here is starting to look promising. Now all I need is few more new friends to hang out with :)

1st month of my expat life is behind. The rollercoaster of my life has finally started to settle down a bit. I have a place to stay, better picture of what is expected at work and I even have some hobbies here to keep my mind and body in shape. The best thing is that even my old hobby (badminton) is going to start this week so all in all everything is running smoothly.
Last weekend I had the chance to spend some time in Finland. This was I think one of the best weekends for this year. Lots of quality time with my girlfriend and great fun with my friends crawling trough the pubs in Kallio. This round (3) was I think the first time I managed to go trough the full round and even to the after party. Although I can't say that was wise :) But anyway the fun was good it cancels all the lazy and trembling feelings from Sunday.

Anyhow, now I'm back in Düsseldorf and ready to meet this months challenges. Hopefully lots of interesting tasks at work and opportunities to familiarize my self with the city.