Again I haven't been keeping up with the blogging and for that I apologize. Apparently more people read this than I thought so it's good motivation to keep updating it. I can't remember the exact dates but last week was pretty eventful with some of the highlights were, as the title of this post, Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) and Karneval der Kulturen. As I mentioned before we have a pretty dope teacher for our German class and last Friday we took a field trip to KaDeWe. KaDeWe is essentially a gigantic, 7-story Macy's with everything you can imagine. If you have the means, I highly suggest you visit it. Everything was far more expensive than anything worth buying while here in Europe for 3 months so I settled for a bratwurst and looked around for a while. If you come to Berlin it's definitely something you should see but I wouldn't spend a whole day there. So instead of taking the S-Bahn which would have only been about a 30 minute ride, we walked through Tiergarten, which I'm actually glad we did. Tiergarten is the equivalent of NYC's Central Park and is apparently home to many rabbits, birds, and wild boars. Berlin actually has a significant amount of wild boars plaguing the foliage and gardens of many Berliners. It was great we walked because we ended up stopping in a Biergarten on the way and some people ended up going on boats through Tiergarten. I'm not exactly sure if there was any significant educational value to our trip to KaDeWe but I'm sure there was some somewhere.
This past weekend was also a big festival here in Berlin called Karneval der Kulturen (Carnival of Cultures). It's similar to the giant parade called "Karneval" and lasted from about 12:30 in the afternoon until about 9 or 10 at night. It was interesting to see all of the different cultures here that Berliners associate themselves with. All of the people in the parade were dressed in some type of costume and everyone had a float or some kind of performance. The parade was only one part of the festival because Friday & Saturday there were also performance from bands all over the world. The food was also great because there was a mix of African, Asian, and some German food everywhere. Not exactly sure what I ate that night but it was good I'm sure.
We also had Monday off because once again the Germans are a very religious people and find it appropriate to take Pentecost off. I wish we had these holidays in America.
Next week will be our last week of class and I'm pretty sure I'll have been here a full month at that point. Some days go by faster than others but I really can't believe it's been a month already. I'm excited to start my internship at Humboldt and I have another meeting with my boss next week Wednesday. I think I'm also going to start looking for places to travel so if you have any recommendations, let me know.
Bis dann
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