2014/03/25

Greek national day. Trying to feel proud while I am having a job abroad. The goals of the day are to get registered to the local city office, Kreisburo, and open a bank account. It took me some time to find the place, it was relatively well hidden and my efforts to speak broken German were border line hillarious. Like all good bureaucrats the guy who handled my application was very serious and initially tried to find some excuse not to help me. His issue was that my temporary apartment booked for one month is not permanent enough to register me at that location.  I argued that given the scarcity of apartments for rent in Zurich this is the best I can do and without much effort things ended smoothly. Not bad at all overall. Straight from there to the bank. An extremely helpful young  guy opens an account for me and I am off to go. Overall, people are very friendly and helpful. Back to Google where I talk about work and participate in a meeting with a team in Chicago that works with us.