Anyone got an Apartment??

Well I finished my one week of the Transatlantic Program in Berlin on Sunday. I met some great people from around the US, visited some very cool places (Porsche, DaimlerChrysler, HafenCity in Hamburg, German Foreign Ministry, etc. etc.), and bonded with new friends over excellent meals paid for by the German American Chamber of Commerce and fine German beers paid for by ourselves. It was a taxing week, with 12 hour days, long winded german presentations, little rest, and yet still the need to go out at night to explore Berlin and consume American quantities of alcohol and shisha. We went to the "White Trash Bar" which was great, definitely not the white trash I was hoping for, but instead more like the Kevin Federline/Mohawk Dude white trash....

So after our temporary goodbyes, we all split up and departed the newly opened Berlin Train Station for our individual internships. I got off the train in Erlangen, which is 20 minutes from Herzogenaurach (where Adidas is). Carrying my 74+ pounds of luggage through the rainy european streets, sad violin music playing (actually not, but really, it´d have been great if it were), i stumbled into the Hotel Frankischer Hof. I booked two nights, and that is the extent of my housing situation in Germany for the next 6 months...

So, the housing search has begun, and checking my email this morning sadly resulted in zero replies from the emails I had sent. I think I may have to actually start calling people, which is always this lame-ass thing of me that I fear when I´m abroad. Im also having a hard time decidiing where I want to live: Erlangen is a University city of about 100,000 people and so far from what I´ve seen, its very nice--but 20 minutes away by bus. Herzogenaurach is the city of shoes, both Puma and Adidas are located there, who are arch enemies and have been for years... (http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article359772.ece) It´s a lot smaller than Erlangen, and certainly lacks the young population of Erlangen, but it´s right by work and most likely cheaper....

So, if the rare chance happens that someone who reads this knows of a good place for me to live here, let me know! Otherwise, Stay tuned and either you´ll hear from me soon regarding my new address, or you´ll just know that I´m naked and curled up sleeping behind the Döner stand while the cold German rain (every day since Ive been here!) washes the dirt and sorrow from my tattered clothes to the sweet, yet sad sound, of a violin solo.