Still looking...

Breakfast was a good experience yesterday, I met two nice Swiss girls who are here sightseeing, and they even accepted my feeble attempts at German!
However, the search for a WG seems to get ever harder...
I visited three more (still on a productive spree...), the morning one was ok, with a man and sometimes his young daughter, and he has told me I should be able to practise there through the day. The second, with a graffiti artist, was much further away and took me forever and a police officer to find (my map doesn't stretch that far...). Then, upon arrival, I couldn't remember the man's surname, and so hazarded a guess on the bell system (and scored!). However, when I got in the building there was a courtyard and four separate buildings, each a likely candidate for this WG. My guessing the second time round wasn't quite as accurate, but luckily the kids in the apartment I rang on were pretty helpful and I soon found the right door. However, this apartment again wasn't quite my cup of tea - smoking, up a zillion flights of stairs and far from the uni. I hopped back on the U-Bahn and headed off to what seems like the furthest West part of Berlin (bound to be even more expensive!).
Again upon arrival I hadn't a clue as to the guy's surname, but children seemed to be my saviours again as one of the kids in the building let me into the stairwell. From then on I appear to have no shame anymore as I just gradually climbed the stairs ringing on doorbells! But again it eventually paid off, and I found the WG in question. A lovely and recently (/still in the process of being) renovated WG, the rooms were huge and everything seemed lovely. The cheaper (but still expensive) room turned out to have been rented already, but the two guys offered to show me the other slightly larger, and even more expensive room. Being so far away (=travel costs) and still so expensive would never fit with me, though the guys did kindly offer me half rent for the rest of this month if I didn't find anything by the time I had to leave the youth hostel. But I'm still hoping. Maybe today is the day...