Coffee and Casanova

Happy Thursday everybody!

Casanova:
Could there be any more perfect combination?

Rich, high quality coffee (good morning!) combined with the witty charms and graces of Casanova...

Has anyone besides me seen this movie? I always avoided it because of its rating in America but after I looked into why it was rated that way, I figured it was probably harmless (I was right). I really wanted to watch a Heath Ledger movie, and I wanted to see something I had never seen with him before. I was not disappointed!! First of all this movie is hilarious and gets a high recommendation from me. Maybe it's things like slapping people with gloves and having multiple aliases at a masked ball that are only funny to me, but the whole setup is just absolutely ridiculous and can only leave one laughing!

Anyway, not that I want this to be about movie reviews and stuff you could read on anyone else's blog. Just thought I'd share the movie I watched last night (because it was just so good) :)

So back to the good stuff, right? Okay so I mentioned it's kind of a busy time for me in September- I'm starting work! AND I have a job interview today as an event photographer (yay!). Munich is obviously a fairly touristic city (I mean hello, my family visited in 1998. I was once a tourist here too), so there are probably tours happening, right?! Yes! So I'm training right now to be a tour guide, and to do that involves taking two smallish exams. First you have to take a quiz about Munich and then you have your audition tour, where you have to give a tour for the boss... on video... to be sent to HQ in Berlin... (I don't like the video part!). I took the pre-audition test yesterday, and I guess I barely passed because I don't know some semi-abstract things about Munich like if a game in the 2006 World Cup was played here... I was 11 during that world cup! I didn't care about soccer (or football for my European friends), I cared about starting Middle School! Oh well. 

So I'm heading to two museums this weekend as prerequisite for doing the audition tour. I'm actually excited about these museums because one of them is about the city of Munich itself, which should be pretty fascinating because Munich has a fascinating history from what I know! (Think ancient monasteries and beer traditions, a church built by the devil, a dynastic family full of cuckoos, beer revolutions, etc.) The second museum I'm visiting is an art museum that currently has an exhibit on the old testament which I can see for a whopping 2€, I'm looking forward.

I mentioned I have a job interview as an event photographer. I would love to get into this because event planning and management is my backup plan if I don't get to do my Plan A (which will slowly be revealed for the people who don't know what it is yet!). Event photographers here in Munich are basically publicists for clubs and public parties; every time you enter a club here, there are always people snapping away and then the next day or so you get to find all your awesome party pics on their website. I like to party, but I would prefer to work at parties because of the benefit of being there and being forced to be responsible at the same time. 

Sorry for the super long post! Keep your eyes out for the Oktoberfest post in a couple weeks (only 16 days til the mayhem begins! WOOT!); complete with pictures! and here's a sneak preview from last year (there's guys with lederhosen in the background!):

À bientôt mes amis!

Music for the morning: Album The Best of New Order by New Order