Well if you havent figured it out yet. I went to Berlin for a week with a bunch of exchange students. and.....It was amazing. simply stated. But why try to artistically and creatively describe it with a bunch of fancy words, when simply amazing is perfectly suited. I also went to Augsburg again on Sunday afternoon before going to Berlin. And I also was in the beautiful little city of Wasserburg on Saturday evening. Was a pretty fun week. with many things. I learned alot about myself, and everything. When I find myself having the most fun, I also find myself thinking about the values and true meaning of life. I have no idea why this happens, but its kind of cool, and sometimes us exchange students sit down and have a beer, and talk about everything under the blue moon, and sometimes they are actually really deep conversations. These are the little things about exchange that I love. Its not just that your in another country, another culture, different people, and all that fantastic stuff. You explore the meaning of life, and what it means to really live in this world. You find your place in the world, and you discover what kind of person you really are. I have grown more in these last 8 weeks than I have in my entire life. I left a young 16 year old boy that had not a clue what the world was like. Only perceptions of what I thought it was like. While now I am only 7 weeks older, I have a small glimpse of this world, and I want to see the whole thing. I want to go out and really live life to the fullest. I know I am only just starting and this experience is already so amazing. But now I will share what I did for a week, in my favorite city in the whole world.
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| Brandenburg Gate International Style |
First, I always wanted to live in a big city, Now I know I need to live in a big city. Its soo fascinating, the sites, the smells, the sounds. Everythings just captivates me. I love it. Everyday is truly another adventure. Not a single day is similar. Berlin in particular is fantastic because of the amazing history it possesses. It was the center part of most history dealing with WWII. I am a bit of a history buff, and I loved actually seeing where some of the most famous events in world history took place. The Berlin Wall was amazing. Just standing there and picturing what it was like only 22 years ago for people to so divided by a single wall. One wall separated two completely different societies. Its really a magnificent sight. After that going to Check Point Charlie, and the history there.... I could go on and on and on. I love it, all of it. And I think it is so cool to actually be there at look at these things firsthand. We also visited a Prison on the East side of Berlin, and the stories we heard there were amazingly vivid. And it really wrapped it all up nicely together, our tour of the east side. The other days we went to the Brandenburg gate. Was pretty amazing. Some exchange students saw justin timberlake in person. And we took many group photos of course. While we were posing our whole group in front of the brandenburg gate, we had our flags out of course. And randomnly a bunch of other people who we had no idea who they were, started taking our picture. It was pretty funny. After that we did our normal ritual of the Macarena. Hhaha, ever since we had a halloween party in the bar of the hotel, at every attraction we go to, we do the macarena dance for about 30 seconds. Everybody always stares, but its still funny. We then went to the Jewish Memorial from the Halocaust. This was a bit depressing, but the way they constructed this memorial was fantastic. The feeling you get while walking through it, makes you feel a bit uneasy, and this was the intent of the memorial. We also went to the Bundestag. Which is the German parliament building. pretty interesting, got to go to a dome on top of the building which had a nice view of berlin. We also went to a television studio, and got to play around on their set, and film our own miny news segments. We went to a Blue Man concert, that was soo fun and entertaining, I strongly recommend them to anyone who likes to be entertained, haha that would be everyone. ohh what else, we went to Potsdam, were the Big 3 met. and had conferences. That was fascinating as well. Everything was amazingly interesting. Well maybe not all the museums we went to, but that was partly due to the fact of long lasting parties the nights before. As you would expect we didnt sleep much all week. We were in BERLIN, why would we sleep. And also, every night was a party as well. wherever we could find a place to party we did. in the bar of the hostel, on the streets of berlin, in the bahnhof, in a burger king, at the club of course, in our hostel rooms, everywhere. We made the most of everynight, usually going to bed at 5 or 6. But berlin was super, there are too many things to write about and go into detail over, so i think this was a good summary. Very random, and probably not so coherent, but its my blog, and I dont care about grammar or writing rules =D. half of them I forgot, because of German. And if you dont know already German grammar, is a (explicit word)
here is a sentence correctly written in German and then followed by an exact english translation
Ich kann nicht heute abend mit meine freund Computer spielen.
I can not tonight with my freind computer play. why not I can not play computer with my friend tonight
But nonetheless. German is coming along, I can read and write pretty well, speaking also. But understanding people is still my biggest challenge. But i am determined, Seeing that 7 weeks ago I didnt speak a word of german, and considering where I am now, I feel like I have been doing a good job. Well next week I switch host families on tuesday, which means new school, new city, pretty much new everything. Its a fresh start I guess, whether I want it or not, I am not sure, but its coming nonetheless.
I am pretty sure I will be going to a Bayern Munich game soon, cant wait. Also this weekend I am going to Freising to spend some more time with exchange students, and then on Sunday I am going to Salzburg to see Hitlers Eagle Nest. Should be fun.
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