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It’s so weird, coming from Bucharest to Berlin. Here is so quiet and peaceful, and there it was like a war zone. I still am not used tot it. But it will grow on me and i will look strange at people when i will get back to Romania.

Here is a picture from my window…

- einz und funfzin
- sorry, ich farstein nicht (i learned how to say “i don’t understand” in german, at least)
- oh! where are you from?
- romania!
- and speak english?
- english, french, italian…
- parlez vous francais?
- mais oui. vous etes francais?
- oui.
- combien ans vous etes ici?
- treize. vous?
- une jour.
- bonsoir
- et vous.

It’s weird, because i would not expect to find a frenchman in the middle of Berlin. But we are many here, all countries represented. There is an arab family in the flat in front of me, with a german flag at their window. They love this country so much.

Q: When are you putting a copyright watermark on your work?

R: When you are doing somthing worthy.

So, first step into the moving is looking for a place to rent. Picked up craiglist and started digging through the ads. I was looking for something around 500€ per month.

I found an ad that seemed ok. Contacted the person by mail, Soniko Thomas (sounds like a german name, right?) and found out the details. He was working abroad. OK. How do we do it? Send me the first month, he said, and I will send you the keys and documents after. Ok, send me the details. They are below

Recievers Name: Mr Soniko Thomas
Adress:245 Victoria Island
City:Lagos
Country:Nigeria
Zip code:23401

Hmm. Nigeria? Not good. Did I say I am from Romania? I know all about “send me the money first“, we and the russians invented it, but the nigerians got caught with it.

I decided to wait a couple of hours. He sent me his phone number (+2348074998117). I called him and he did not have an german accent, but rather a nigerian one. I faked a bad connection and hung up. After a couple hours, he sent me the payment details again. I didn;t answer. Then he started calling me. 20 times. I didn’t answer until the 21st time. I was polite and i said i wanted the keys first. He said no and i explained to him i know what a nigerian scam was. He said ok and i hung up. Then he called me again. And again…and again…until I closed my phone.

He will call me again, trying to convince me he is a good citizen and i should send him the 500€.

Getting ready for some changes, so i am preparing my dot com blog.

Hi, i am Vali, a 20-something webguy from Romania!