My Supervisor welcomed me and I've already met a part of the team I will work in. I'm glad everybody's nice and the "how're ye?" isn't directly followed by an "oh, that's great" (some people in the town just asked you and didn't wait for your answer because it was evident that you were well, of course).
Thus, we finished the first grocery shopping trips (buying everything you need, like an XXL-sized bottle of milk, drinking water to get the chlorine balance alright and chocolate cookies) and got my bike, rented by a colleague, fixed at a bike shop. Additionally it would have benn useful to get an US phone number, but the price levels differ slightly from the ones I am used to (at least around 25$/month).
Today I learned a lot of stuff again: A Grap & Go Breakfast consists of muffins, coffee, chocolate bars, fruit and an Oatmeal To Go which you have to microwave for 10 seconds. (Apparently you can do everything just with a microwave - even produce a thunderstorm, but that's another story ;-))
I went jogging to find out where to go biking and had to accept the successful surprise of my bike chain's break after 500m. It'll need another cure... now it's just standing in my room at a wall which has been made for bicycles, of course - there is just no cage around here.
