So that morning I had to be at 10 AM at the faculty (in Garching), which meant I woke up at 8. It was the first time I was headed to the faculty (mine, at the Garching campus), so I had no idea of what I would find. I needed to speak with 2 different persons, to get some signatures on the official papers, and as their counselling hours are very restricted (every Wednesday, from 10 to 11 AM), I wanted to make sure I was there at 10. Moreover, if I could do that on that week, it would save me a lot of time, because when classes start, there would most certainly be a huge queue.
So all in all, at 9:45 I reached the faculty, now I just needed to find the right rooms. The room numbers were 02.11.053 and 02.12.019, so I was curious to find out what this could mean. It was really obvious, when I entered the lobby. there were clearly 3 floors, so the 02 would have to mean second floor. Then, each floor was divided into sections, well signalized by huge banners, and I saw 13 sections, so the explained the 11 and 12, which meant that 053 and 019 must be the actual room number. I was right (and the layout so intuitive) that by 9:50 I was at the right door. Waited for a while, and got in. Then came the first surprise. My application was nowhere to be found....well, we proceeded anyway, and I was a bit alarmed when she asked me if I wanted to do that before the classes started, as there were bound to be changes in the lectures...I hoped not, and got the signatures anyway. Now to the next office. Here I knocked on the door, and moments later someone opened it, exclaiming "oh, you are my Portuguese student". I must say I was somewhat taken aback by that. How did she know me? Had she memorized every face, of every incoming? Well, this matter aside, she was very friendly, and we ended up talking for about 40 minutes, and she was very relived that I had a place, very happy that the situation with Renate turned out the way it did. I had a feeling there as a problem in the email they had, because I had received none in the past months, so we figured that out also (it was missing a "t" in the ".pt"), and that's why I didn't knew there were 2 lectures missing, and so on. She even sent every document by fax back home, so that was one less thing to worry about. All in all, a very productive morning.
Now it was time to try the canteen. I met Manuel at the subway station, and we went to the "Mensa". First, we needed to charge our cards, as there are no money transactions anywhere in the canteen. We did this peacefully and found the line. It wasn't very long and after 10 minutes we were choosing our food. First thing I noticed, the tray wasn't flat, it had small partitions, so by copying the guy in front of me, I had a sausage and some potato salad in one slot, soup in another, pasta with meat in another, and some tomato salad in the last one. And al of this costed me 4.65€. Next i bought a coke for 1.15€, and when I finished it I got 15 cents back for the bottle. Talk about encouraging recycling. The food wasn't bad, so we were content.
Now I needed to register my address in Munich (yes, more paperwork), so I headed to the office, but when I got there, no luck. They are open every afternoon, except on Wednesday, so no luck. Back home, played some games, watched some shows, had dinner and that was it. I was enjoying my last week of holidays.
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