Berlin et. al.

So, again after failing to update for far to long i shall attempt to put far to much into a post, here we go. The last two weeks here in prague have been pretty relaxed. The routine of going to class, hanging out in the afternoon reading and such then doing fun stuff at night has pretty much continued. The highlight of the last couple of weeks was certainly the trip to berlin last weekend. It was amazing, the city itself was so cool, i got a great vibe from the whole place. We got in on friday, checked into our hostel in west berlin and hopped on the tram east to the brandenburg gate. We then checked out museum island and the german history museum that had exibits focusing on the Nazi era and its aftermath, very well done. Then we wandered for a while, ate bratwurst for dinner and hung out at our hostel for a while. After our group had gotten sufficiently served, we headed out to a german dance club in east berlin. A couple of british dudes tagged along with us and proved to be massive tools. They claimed to be 20 but couldnt have been more than 15 years old and sketchily tried to spit game at the girls we were with. One of them definitely couldnt figure out if he wanted to be british or irish for the night and another attempted to prove his manhood to everyone by doing pullups on the tram, one of those "look at how big of a man I am" things, compensation at his best. The club was exactly wht you would expect, and underground dance club in an abandoned train station. Despite the fact that im probably the last person one would expect to enjoy clubbing (and believe me, i am) i managed to have a good time and make sure everyone got home safe and sound and definitely saw part of the cities life that i wouldnt have checked out on my own. The next day consisted of more museums (including an amazing ancient history one) and an awesome 4 hour walking tour during which we saw tons of Nazi sights, the wall and got a lot of the history of the city. Then we went pub crawling that night and went to bed. I got up early the next morning to go up in the Reichstag dome then came back, roused the crew and hit some art galeries and the Jewish Museum, designed by the same guy who's doing the world trade center memorial, and caught our train back. The city was simply amazing, I could go on for hours (or pages as the case may be) but ill spare you. Its just an amazing place thats constantly growing and changing yet in so many ways defined by its history. Its also got an amazing energy, partially due to the artistic community that moven into the east when the wall came down, but thats already starting to die out as the area become trendy, so check it out soon if you get the chance. Other than that, this week consisted of paper writing, a six page hand written final essay in film class, a trip to a czech suburban swimming pool (which, apparently, considers simply a thong as proper dress) to escape the ninety degree heat and a case of food poisoning. Its a little bit nuts that Ive only got five more days left here, but im looking forward to getting back and seeing friends and family and the like, hope all of you are doing well.