Berlin

Sorry I am so terrible at updating my blog! I guess a lot has gone on since I last wrote so I will try to give a quick overview and then I can talk about Berlin!!!!
Everything is going really well here. I've started meeting some people and have gone out a couple of times, although I'm not as much of a partier anymore. I like sleep! haha The Germans like to party til around 4 am so it's a little too much for me. I like to be in bed no later than 2. I guess I am just used to the American way of going out where everything closes at 2. I have a tandem partner now which should really help my German (we speak once a week in German and once a week in English). I also but Harry Potter in German and although it's a slow process it's fun being able to read in another language, as long as I have my dictionary by my side . Alex is coming in 9 DAYS! I'm so incredibly excied. We're going to Prague for a weekend and then Paris for about a week. My family here also but us a trip to Rudesheim, it's a small touristy type town but apparently really cute. We take a ferry on the Rhine there so that will be pretty exciting. My birthday was excellent even though I wish I could have been home. Cameron helped me make some cookies which was a lot of fun. Thats all I can remember for now.
So...BERLIN! I think I'm in love with the city haha. I stayed with a friend of a friend who I had met for a little bit back in Washington and it was a lot of fun. When I first got there we visited Brandenburger Tor, Monument for the Jews, The Reichstag, Christmas Market and some pieces of the wall. It was pretty cool to actually see the Tor in person rather than just through pictures same with the Reichstag. The Reichstag is part of a government building and it's glass at the top so you can see through, I didn't go up top though because the line is alwasy ridiculously long. Nonetheless it was pretty cool to see. The Christmas Markets here are soooo much fun! Well pretty much you just eat delicious German food which I think is fun! They also have Gluhwein which is a red wine with some spices in it. It is pretty yummy although not my favorite because I don't really like red wine. In Postdamer Platz they have 5 pieces of the wall with a little history. It's all outside and pretty cool to see. The fact that a wall seperated a country still completely amazes me.
The next day we went to The Brucke Museum. The Brucke is a famous art group in Berlin from I think WWII, I could be remembering that wrong though. The museum was pretty small but cool. The artist on display wasn't my favorite but it was still cool to look at. Then we went to go eat my first doener which is originally Turkish but it's more German than Turkish because people don't really eat it in Turkey. It is sort of similiar to a gyro but way more delicious! Anne had to go play some beach volleyball so I wondered off to Museum at Checkpoint Charlie. It is a really cluttered museum but I really liked it!!!! It gave a really good history of the wall and also had examples of some of the escapes which were pretty amazing. I went to another Christmas Market to waste some time. I ate a really good pizza type thing I have no clue what it was called though. I went to meet up with Anne and we went out for a little bit but just ended up at a bar which was good because I was exhausted. Sightseeing is hard work!
The next morning we went to go see a Salvador Dali exhibit. It was AMAZING! The exhibit had 400 of his works. It took awhile to go through because every picture had so much detail. Afterwards we just walked around for a little bit to kill some time before I had to go back home. I really really like Berlin and will probably visit it a couple of more times before I leave.