Germans Love Paperwork
Posted on | February 7, 2010 | No Comments
That is a stereotype that is true. Very true. Annoyingly true.
This past week I started work, didn’t do much at all because of Supervisor things (aka she wasn’t there). But I did find out the project I thought I was doing, I won’t really be doing. I now have a few projects I will be doing instead. I’m excited for that because, as they informed me, I will learn several techniques rather than just one. So, that’s always good. It’s always quite cool because I’ll be using a few techniques that I learned about in Genomics class here in Germany. One of which my Professor sounded ridiculously excited about.
Paperwork was Friday. Lots of signing. Lots of bring this paper to this office, this paper to this office. This paper goes to this office to get signed, than you go somewhere else now that you gave them this paper to get your ID, than when you get your ID go back to that first office and get a different paper signed making your ID into a special ID. Then you go somewhere to get a key, but that document needs to be signed by some office first and the key place is only open at 15 minute intervals at three points during the day. So yes, I don’t have an ID nor do I have a key (a really cool fancy key actually) because of paperwork. And I made the Administration (Verwaltung=Admin right?) sad because American Universities don’t provide (mmatrikulationsbescheinigung (paper that says you are attending Uni from this date to this date).
This past weekend was fun, I babysat yesterday. I learned how to change a diaper on my own and how to feed an 18-month old (which was quite the challenge). I did not, however, read the 92 page Thesis paper (auf Deutsch) that I was supposed. I will do that at some point this week. Now, I should be off to work. Yay. By the end of this week I should actually do something. Today we’re supposed to discuss what I’ll be doing. Exciting.
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