berlin

wellll since i clearly suck at keeping up with this blog (and i know i say this every time) i am just going to make two separate blog posts for the past weekend and the weekend before. First weekend was in berlin. I bought a ticket last minute without realizing that i had a midterm the day we came back and i would be arriving halfway through my midterm. When i asked my professor if i could take it at a different time and they were very strict about it so i ended up having to change my flight. So friday morning we left for berlin and when we got there we went straight to see sights. The first thing we saw was tacheles. Its an abandon building that artists took over and graffitied from wall to wall. also some artists have their art studios in the building and they were making art right in front of you. Of course since I have been obsessed with graffiti here (no dad, im not going to become a graffiti artist) this was my favorite place.

After Tacheles we went to "Tom's Fritten" which was a little food stand across the street. Here we got bratwurst and currywurst which isnt as bad as it sounds. After this we went to go into the sculpture area of tacheles but decided not to because it was starting to rain. As we turned around to walk out, we saw a man freely peeing in the middle of the sidewalk so we waited a few minutes until he was done to walk away. Somehow we magically figured out the metro system there and it wasnt that hard once we got the hang of it. We went to see Brandenburger Tor which is the Brandenburg gate.

After this we went to go see reichstag which is parlament with the intentions of going back the next day and going into the cool dome but when we went they told us you had to make reservations days in advance so instead i took this fake picture and pretended i was in it

pretty legit right? so after that we went to some tourist shops and i got my post card with a piece of the berlin wall in it and a keychain. after that we went to our hostel to check in. it was not a pretty sight. by this time it was raining and freezing and when we got to our hostel, the gold marie, they made us wait. when we checked in we asked about my cancelled reservations for the next two nights and they said they had no record of it. All the people working there looked like messes and the people walking in and out looked like bums. we were scared to see what the rooms looked like. we walked down a hallway and these purple lights flashed on like we were in a brothel and then we walked up about 6 flights of stairs and were finally in our room. The room wasnt horrible and we had a lovely view of a ghetto alley way. We shared a bathroom with the next room who ended up being really nice and bringing us a space heater. We got ready for skrillex and obviously were late. we ended up only seeing about 20 minutes which was very disappointing but i got to see my two favorite songs so i guess its okay. I ended up having an emotional breakdown in front of the concert after it was over because i was mad we missed skrillex and i had to leave the next day. We ended up meeting these two german boys and they brought us to a restaurant/bar. Of course we ate nachos like we do everywhere and got drinks. We went back to the hostel and slept and woke up early. In the morning we went to go get my money and the women at the desk acted like she had no idea what we were talking about. She was very rude to us and i was getting really frustrated. She said that shed talk to liz and jacque later in the day when the managers were there. I ended up getting my money back when they got home. We went straight to reichstag and got denied from the dome so we went to the holocaust museum. The monument was awesome and so was the museum even though it was depressing.

After that we went a restaurant and got bratwurst again. We went to go to the 360 which is the highest view of berlin and when we got there the line was huge and i had to leave for the airport so we didn't wait. Then I had to leave so jacque and liz took me to the train and i ended up waiting in the airport for an hour doing nothing. I got home and made my way back to our apartment where I spent two nights alone which was very creepy. This past week there was a free afrojack concert which i wasnt planning on going to but i heard calvin harris was going to be there so suz and i went and got tickets from jordans friends. It ended up being full of business men and shakira and akon were there. It was a really good concert but i didnt get a lot of sleep. Thursday night we went to Thomas gold and melissa came to visit barcelona!

And then comes amsterdam! which will be in the next post....