Berlin

Hey everyone,

Sorry this Blog is a little tardy but thanks for tuning in. I spent the last weekend in Berlin and it went something like this.

Friday: If you read my previous Blog you will remember that we had a pretty intense storm here on Thursday. So, as i was waking up Friday morning i looked at my cell phone and realized that i had received a text message. Now, it is not everyday one receives a text message at an ungodly hour in the morning. Upon opening it i was greeted with perhaps the best news one could receive on a school day. School had been cancelled because of the storm the night before.

Had my room not been really cold and my bed a little less warmer and a little less comfortable I might have got up and danced around my room. Instead I smiled, rolled back over and didnt open my eyes again until 11:30.

Woke up. Packed. Ate. Drove to Berlin and arrived around dinner time. We met up with my host moms best friend (Karlheinz) who lives in Berlin, and is who we stayed with, and went to an amazing Pizza/Pasta resteraunt. Had fantastic food, good wine and some good ice cream.

Drove around Berlin for a while and then went back to Karlheinz's house, had some more wine and then went to bed.

Woke up Saturday. ate. Drove around Berlin for a while. Stopped at the Brandenburg Tur and took some pictures and then visited the Holcaust Memorial and Muesum. If you dont come out of that museum emotional...you dont have a soul. Drove around some more. Did some shopping in this very cool indie/funky part of town, ate, did some more shopping and then went to a Vietnamese resteraunt for dinner. Laura's uncle joined for dinner. Had a great conversation over dinner. The food was amazing and I can completly understand why major magazines in Germany voted it the best vietnamese food west of Ho chi mihn city.

Sunday: Visited Lauras uncles apratment, had coffee, visited the Soviet Union memorial to all the Soviet Soldiers in WWII and then drove home.

Overall it was an excellent weeked and a great time to get to know my host family.

Love you all

Tyler