BERLIN
I really literally fell in love with Berlin. I don't really know how to tell you how something like that can happen. It's just like that whole wanting to wake up and take in the feeling that you feel in that city. It just can not easily be recreated. I think about the place like almost constantly now, it feels like I am homesick.
The city itself is like a drug or something, walking down Unter den Linden beneath the shade of the trees. There could be nothing wrong with your life. I just love that you can walk up to people and just ask them questions and that's not weird. It's okay to be curious, anything human is okay.
Let me tell you a little about Berlin. The best place in Berlin in Prenzlaurberg, if you can say that because the whole city is amazing. This is where you find the art. So much art on the walls, on the street. You can go and put your toes in the sand and just stair at art, you can sit on art. If you want to get some exercize on the trip there feel free to do some push up's on the U bahn, or just ride your bicycle to your hearts content. You can do as you please, you can wear what you please, no one minds. Maybe after a rough day you can get a beer at an imbiss and take it along with you for your trip.
Then there is Krausberg. I think this section is a little bit better for nifty little shops. It's a bit more American infested so you will notice it's slightly dirtier here. Little signs of America include the subway that is all graffitied up with "WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER SUBWAY" This is where the parties that go on for three days are. If you are serious about being Berlin, you can come here and get your Berlin on. I had school though so being incapacitated for 3 days at a time wouldn't work.
And then there's Friedrichshine which is more like jazz clubs. I love spying on foreign jazz shows in basements with German tubaists and trying to order Grolsch. Just fun to kind of let go and enjoy the sounds. It's more old culture, so you won't catch too much Berlin here.
I don't remember what the part of Berlin where Potzdamer platz is, but this is new fresh German engineering at it's finest. There's no explaining the things that you can see here, and they are hard to take pictures of too. Engineered hills are something else.
Lots of neat things exist in Berlin, coke machines that sell coke, ringtones, take your picture, and more. Dog's don't ever need leashes and don’t attack strangers. They just are as they are and they aren't inbreed like American dogs. Everything in Berlin is so happy. The Germans really embrace summer so you will notice that all restaurants are outdoors when it's warm. Tons of bars set out beach chairs and have sand for you to put your feet in. Berlin is built on sand, which I would have never thought. The Reichstag which is like parliament was reconstructed and all of the new parts of the building are completely clear to symbolize the transparency that exists in German Government now a days.
Tiergarten is really silly because lots of people like to go in there and sunbathe nude. it is also where I buried my back pack when I went to see Obama. On one of the sides of tiergarten there are the embassies, they are relatively close to postdamer platz. They are so beautiful and each one reminds you so much of it's host country.
My school was Humbolt University of Berlin. It was located on Unter den Linden, a few blocks away from that hotel where mj dangled his child out the window. Also very close to the Brandenburg Tor, this was always where a sort of gate to Brandenburg was located, and this is it this century. I was also a ten minute walk to Alexander Platz which is like the largest platz in Berlin and where the Fernsehturm is which is the major symbol of Berlin kind of.
Then there was Treptow park, ruins from the soviets really. It was very impressive and symmetrical. a Giant man squashing a swastika. Just all these beautiful trees and stuff.
We went to one of the German Festivals, the Gaulker Festival (like street performer) which was across the street from my school. We had some of the best street food that exists and entertainment. And of course beer, but also they have this drink that people like as a treat in the summer, it's wine with strawberries weisswine mit erdbeer. That was so good. Street waffles. Everyone was shocked how the people talk about sex and curse for children’s entertainment, so I guess it was a cultural experience.
Also across the street from my school was this library that is underground and has no books and no access, it's just in the ground and there it a window that you can look in. It's a memorial to the book burnings. Fashion week was plopped on top of it at one point, which was odd.
Then there is the holocaust memorial, if you have no reason to go to Berlin I think this is reason enough. The feelings that the place evokes from you are incredible. The Jewish museum was really intense too. Also there is this real remaining portion of the two walls with the death strip in between with a tower to over look it.
The history of Berlin is deep and intense and very very heavy. The future of Berlin is a different creature entirely. They cannot exist without each other, but walking around Berlin you can see how much of the past has been torn away.
There are like a million other things, but I think this might be getting too long my computer with the picture went crazy so in a little bit I’ll have them.
The city itself is like a drug or something, walking down Unter den Linden beneath the shade of the trees. There could be nothing wrong with your life. I just love that you can walk up to people and just ask them questions and that's not weird. It's okay to be curious, anything human is okay.
Let me tell you a little about Berlin. The best place in Berlin in Prenzlaurberg, if you can say that because the whole city is amazing. This is where you find the art. So much art on the walls, on the street. You can go and put your toes in the sand and just stair at art, you can sit on art. If you want to get some exercize on the trip there feel free to do some push up's on the U bahn, or just ride your bicycle to your hearts content. You can do as you please, you can wear what you please, no one minds. Maybe after a rough day you can get a beer at an imbiss and take it along with you for your trip.
Then there is Krausberg. I think this section is a little bit better for nifty little shops. It's a bit more American infested so you will notice it's slightly dirtier here. Little signs of America include the subway that is all graffitied up with "WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER SUBWAY" This is where the parties that go on for three days are. If you are serious about being Berlin, you can come here and get your Berlin on. I had school though so being incapacitated for 3 days at a time wouldn't work.
And then there's Friedrichshine which is more like jazz clubs. I love spying on foreign jazz shows in basements with German tubaists and trying to order Grolsch. Just fun to kind of let go and enjoy the sounds. It's more old culture, so you won't catch too much Berlin here.
I don't remember what the part of Berlin where Potzdamer platz is, but this is new fresh German engineering at it's finest. There's no explaining the things that you can see here, and they are hard to take pictures of too. Engineered hills are something else.
Lots of neat things exist in Berlin, coke machines that sell coke, ringtones, take your picture, and more. Dog's don't ever need leashes and don’t attack strangers. They just are as they are and they aren't inbreed like American dogs. Everything in Berlin is so happy. The Germans really embrace summer so you will notice that all restaurants are outdoors when it's warm. Tons of bars set out beach chairs and have sand for you to put your feet in. Berlin is built on sand, which I would have never thought. The Reichstag which is like parliament was reconstructed and all of the new parts of the building are completely clear to symbolize the transparency that exists in German Government now a days.
Tiergarten is really silly because lots of people like to go in there and sunbathe nude. it is also where I buried my back pack when I went to see Obama. On one of the sides of tiergarten there are the embassies, they are relatively close to postdamer platz. They are so beautiful and each one reminds you so much of it's host country.
My school was Humbolt University of Berlin. It was located on Unter den Linden, a few blocks away from that hotel where mj dangled his child out the window. Also very close to the Brandenburg Tor, this was always where a sort of gate to Brandenburg was located, and this is it this century. I was also a ten minute walk to Alexander Platz which is like the largest platz in Berlin and where the Fernsehturm is which is the major symbol of Berlin kind of.
Then there was Treptow park, ruins from the soviets really. It was very impressive and symmetrical. a Giant man squashing a swastika. Just all these beautiful trees and stuff.
We went to one of the German Festivals, the Gaulker Festival (like street performer) which was across the street from my school. We had some of the best street food that exists and entertainment. And of course beer, but also they have this drink that people like as a treat in the summer, it's wine with strawberries weisswine mit erdbeer. That was so good. Street waffles. Everyone was shocked how the people talk about sex and curse for children’s entertainment, so I guess it was a cultural experience.
Also across the street from my school was this library that is underground and has no books and no access, it's just in the ground and there it a window that you can look in. It's a memorial to the book burnings. Fashion week was plopped on top of it at one point, which was odd.
Then there is the holocaust memorial, if you have no reason to go to Berlin I think this is reason enough. The feelings that the place evokes from you are incredible. The Jewish museum was really intense too. Also there is this real remaining portion of the two walls with the death strip in between with a tower to over look it.
The history of Berlin is deep and intense and very very heavy. The future of Berlin is a different creature entirely. They cannot exist without each other, but walking around Berlin you can see how much of the past has been torn away.
There are like a million other things, but I think this might be getting too long my computer with the picture went crazy so in a little bit I’ll have them.