We went to Berlin today and though it was miserably rainy and cold, had a great time. The Checkpoint Charlie museum is really excellent if you want to find out cool things about what it was like in Berlin while the wall was still up. There is SO much information that you could spend the whole day in there but whatever time you do spend, it is well worth it. You can see out the windows where the Checkpoint was and they have left part of the bare zone there. You can just imagine what it was like to be so desperately close to a free, better place and to have to content yourself with glimpses for years. Some of the escape attempts were ingenious.
Yesterday I spent quite a bit of time with Annalisa and Johnmark...helping with homework, which of course was mostly math...which I haven't done in 4 years. So that was interesting and fun =) I remembered it but it was doubtful for a bit. Thanks Mrs. Wegerer! We played soccer too...Johnmark is a fanatic and it was hilarious to watch him run around while Annalisa and I just tried to look like we were working hard.
I also met with a girl named Ines yesterday for a couple hours over coffee. She and Laura Beall became friends when Laura was here last summer and we had a great conversation. She's a great person and I really hope to get to know her better.
Last night I spent some more time with Carolin too. We went to Ruoy's apartment (this guy that we met on the tram who is from Israel) and spent several hours in conversation with him and his flatmates and a guy from Brazil named Fabio (his hair was kinda pretty too =) My German is getting better, thank goodness.
Tomorrow Brielle and I are going to watch Napolean Dynamite with Carolin and we really hope that she gets some of the humor...it will be even funnier if she doesn't though!
I don't have time to write more, sorry, but I will post again Monday
Love to you all,
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