Arrival to Germany
June 4, 2008
1st arrival week:
Read the Germany things from wiki/book and Understand the food, culture ,rule, the thing should do , must do , don’t , shouldn’t do etc.. want to know more something , www.toytowngermany.com
example
Life
1. Practice to eat bread, cheese, EU food, cold food.
2. Know the local vegetable to apply for cooking thai food.
3. Ontime
4. Supermarkets are open only Mo. - Sa until 8PM only airport and HBF train station are open everyday
5. Don’t smile on the public place if you are Thai woman (they might think you are crazy 
)
Office
6. Don’t smile when you don’t know the answer
7. Prepare before go to the meeting
weekend : Go out to sightseeing and have a beer , bring the bottle of the water with you for sunday (no shop is open) ,Getting contact to your family in far east by Skype, voipdiscount
2nd week : Start to go to Office
- Know colleagues , working style , job, your responsibility
- Buy the mobile phone …always with contract.But you can buy the prepaid card as well. Cheapest is Blurb
- Open the bank account , good + expensive service is Deutsche bahn , worse is citybank…the another are ok .
- Find out the furnish or non-furnish apartment from website, newspaper, board in uni, supermarket,friend,colleague.
ex. www.toytowngermany.com, http://www.gimmo.de
3rd week
- Make the appointment to review the flat , sign the contract (near supermarket,train station,internet)
- Discover the Asian shop, restaurant, etc…
- Learn about Germany lang. from school, colleagues, friend, etc…and www.leo.org is good to translate the word.
4th week
- Search the friends (not easy but not difficult) , join the activity in toytowngermany or couchsurfing or exchange the lang, http://muenchen.sprachduo.de or find out the partner, www.liebe.de or www.okcupid.com
- Make the note the thing that you need to buy for your new flat…Strong recommend Ikea - reasonable price and quality.
5th - 7th week - Move to the new Flat
- Go to shop to buy the new or 2nd furniture , all stuffs from the shop, website.
- Install internet , if you don’t have. Alice company is pretty good condition
- Discover the supermarket, department store, etc..near your flat
- Check the company holiday , plan to travel
Tip for budget traveling with the good experience is - Using low cost airline in EU , my favorite airline is lufthansa book in advance 2- 3 months to get lower than 00 euro for round trip - Using the car pool for short distance, http://www.toytowngermany.com/wiki/Car_sharing - Keep in touch to local culture, stay with local people ..you might find out the new local friend from couchsurfing - Staying in hostel, youth hostel, backpack hotel etc..will write down more
4 Responses to “Arrival to Germany”
Haha, really what’s wrong if Thai people smile? I thought in Western countries people smile even if they don’t know each other..
Though I can understand in your case.. Your smile has got you in trouble before, right?
By Alvin on Jun 11, 2008
Whoops,what is the problem with smiling?? now serious enough? I am those type which likes to smile a lot, uhm, dangerous tyep to them?
Talk about food, knowing it must be hard, Lena who had come back from France also complained about the cold western food : )
good, good prepration and you will find it not so picky in China, I am sure for this. No worries for trip here.
By Mingji on Jun 16, 2008
Aha.. so Europeans prefer cold food? Wow.. something different.. For me without heating I feel unconfortable eating any meal.
By Alvin on Jul 4, 2008