Alright, so I’ve been in Berlin for about a month now, and not surprisingly, I’ve done a lot here. Berlin is a fairly spread-out city, so it sometimes takes a little while to get places, but there are so many museums, exhibits, parks, churches, castles, and other interesting sites to visit that I could spend a semester here even without classes and not see everything I want to see. Still, I’ve managed a fair amount in the past few weeks. I’ve been to the theater twice, the opera once, around 10 museums, a special “Green Week” fair, a Stasi interrogation prison, the office of the Bundeskanzlerin, and I’ve even taken a day trip to Poland. One of the things I’ve enjoyed most about Berlin is that most people continue to speak German with me instead of
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