pictures to come...

Yet another amazing week here in Germany!!! (with the exception of not having internet, but we will get back to that)

Monday night I totally owned at FHE where we played a guessing game. It was Disney characters, so of course I won. Tuesday, Kelsey and I went to this cool cafe that had free wi-fi. I got some seriously amazing herbal tea and got to use the internet.

Wednesday was really cool. We got to go on a tour of the parliament building. The building has been around for a long time and has had many uses, but has been changed throughout the years. They kept a bunch of soviet graffiti on the walls. The actual room where they meet has a viewing balcony where any citizen can listen in on the preceedings for a short time. The chairs are all movable because that way they can move things around with each new group of people. Then we also go to go up in the dome, but it was a cloudy day so not so cool. Then I went and got more tea from my favorite cafe.

On Thursday I found a fun little flea market that I wandered through and found some really cool stuff, including lavender! I ate my lunch in a park and went to the New Jewish Synagogue. THat was pretty cool. It was so destroyed and they restored it so that you can see what was original and what is new. Then I went to the church and we had our culture class, and institute class, and then they had burgers for dinner!!! and they even grilled the onions!!!! I was totally in the mood for that burger, it was perfect.

Friday, two other girls and I went to Schloss Charlotenburg and chilled in the gardens for a while, enjoying the plesent day. Then I went home and pretty much went to sleep due to my lack of internet. You really don't realize how much you use it until it's gone.

Saturday was by far the best day! We went to Schwerin, which is Prof. Kelling's hometown. He showed us around and we went to the Castle and he took us on a boat tour. They were also having a festival that day to celebrate the town's birthday. It was so much fun!

And today, I got attacked by some little kids with water guns/bottles which I would have found funny if I wasn't already in a bad mood. But I did fix the internet! Honorata thinks I'm the coolest thing since the cigarette (she is a smoker - so it makes sense, though she doesn't smoke much and always outside)

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