feuervogel | Address in Berlin

So, I got my address yesterday! It's on Kurfürstenstr, on the eastern end, near a U1 and a U2 station. It's not in Charlottenburg, thankfully, and it's really close to Potsdamer Platz, though it's kind of far from Mitte and the Institut (which I'll probably get to by the U2 to Alexanderplatz, then transfer to the U8 to Weinmeisterpl.) I'm like 3/4 of a mile from Checkpoint Charlie. Shiny!

I saw the address in my email and was like, "Damn, I don't wanna live in Charlottenburg!" because the Ku'damm is the western end of that street, and it's full of boutique shopping (like Prada, Gucci, Boss, you know, all the bourgeois stuff.) But I looked on GMaps, and it's not as bad as I thought.

I need to figure out where to buy a monthly BVG pass. They're 72E, so it'll pay for itself after just over 34 rides (at 2,10 each), or 17 days assuming I only use public transit two times a day. (There's also a 10-am monthly pass, which is 50E and you can only use it between 10 am and 3 am Mon-Fri, which would mean I'd have to buy supplements for weekends. But that doesn't seem to be terribly günstig,* since I'd only have to buy 12 single tickets to make up the difference.)

But I can try my exercise plan, which is take transit to one end of Tiergarten and walk to the other, since I'm also pretty close to Tiergarten.

The Staatsoper is just doing Carmen and L'etoile, neither of which I'm terribly interested in. Oh, there's also L'Elisir d'Amore, which, I dunno. The Deutsche Oper doesn't have anything I'm interested in, either. Maybe I'll just find a classical concert to go to or something.

Berlin isn't a very big city. It's only 350 square miles (though that *has* to be including a lot of the suburbs), and only has 3.4 million people, about 15% of whom are unemployed.

*Expect the amount of Denglisch in my posts to increase over the next few weeks.

Holy shit, you guys, I'm gonna be in Berlin in, like, 5 days!