Picture Fail

So sorry I'm so bad at taking pictures, it's just that unless I'm taking pictures of people, it seems pointless. Since there isn't anyone to take pictures of, I'm not taking a lot of pictures. I prefer experiences and memories to pictures anyway.

This week was yet another beautiful week in Berlin, made better by the fact that it was much warmer (finally!). On Monday we did another trip to the Historical Museum and that was pretty cool. We have to see the whole thing because it's pretty much our text for our culture class (um, awesome text much?). Anyway it's huge, so we go in sections and that was my second trip. Then on Tuesday we went to the Ritter Sport store. It is full of lots and lots of chocolate and was lots of fun. Wednesday was dinner with Dr. Kelling. He is having everyone over in groups of 7 to his apartment for soup. It was very good, very German soup with a crazy amazing hazelnut cake-like thing for dessert. I love talking to that guy! He has such amazing stories. Thursday was the New Museum, which has the bust of Nefertti. It was amazing to see, we are going to go back sometime. Then we went to our culture class and to Institute. Friday was the DDR museum. Holy cow, so much fun! It was like an interactive history museum and they had all kinds of crazy things from East Germany. Both Kelsey and I got a little shock at the last part though. You see, as a form of protest, a lot of nudest colonies popped up. Yeah, we weren't expecting that to be part of a museum.

Saturday was the best though. Dr. Kelling took us to Lubec, which is about a 3-3.5 hour train ride. It is a beautiful town with a lot of fun architecture. So much of Berlin was destroyed in the war so a lot of what we see here is replicas of originals so it loses something. But Lubec didn't get so many bombs hurled at it and still has a lot of old buildings. They also have a crazy fun Marzipan store. I love long train rides (as long as it isn't a train-day).

This weekend there is a huge festival going on right around where we live, so when we came back from church there were a bunch of street vendors everywhere and they were cooking good food and I wish it weren't Sunday so I could have eaten it all! It also happens to be a holiday today and tomorrow - Pfinksten (aka Pentecost). Holidays kind of stress me out here because very little is open. In America, there is always that 24 hour sav-on, but not here. I get nervous when things close down.

Um, I think that's all for this post. It wasn't a boring week, but a rather boring post. I only have 5 weeks left in Berlin and 7 left till home!! AHhhh!!!