Berlin with Sarah

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August 13th 2008

Published: August 13th 2008

Last week, after camp was over and after my night in Zuerich, I spent 5 days with a really cool girl in Berlin. I had never met her before -- her mom volunteers in my mom's ESL class every Thursday. This past spring when I was at a potluck that my mom's students had, I met Sarah's mom and she told me that her daughter lives in Berlin. I got her email address and wrote her to see if there was an... Read Full Entry

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the new synagogue

new synagogue

a cool-looking fountain

the Fernsehturm up close

lol... my anarchy stamp (got it to get into the club we went to)

me, Yukako, and Sarah when we went out

a view of East Berlin

Frankfurter Tor

St. Michaels Church

where we sat to eat our awesome cookies

same place as the last picture

Checkpoint Charlie

the columns that are part of Jewish museum

Ampelmann "walk" signal

Created in 1961, these walk signals are supposed to be more appealing, making people actually follow the rules. They are cute, so I think they made me follow the rules better.

and the "don't walk" Ampelmann

The building in which Sarah works

She is in the picture, but it's hard to see her.

the opera house

the burning of the books memorial

the "Mother and Dead Child" piece

same thing, zoomed in

13th August 2008

Margaret
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Sarah is an amazing hostess!
It's astonishing how much you did in a few days! She sounds like a really nice and smart person, which doesn't surprise me because her mother is the same!

14th August 2008

Margaret
non-member comment

Perhaps an ignorant question?
Um, why is there a French church in Berlin?

15th August 2008

alia142
Alia

I'll attempt to answer
All I know is that it was built for the Huguenots (French protestants), who had to flee France b/c they were persecuted... a lot of them ended up in Russia. Maybe there were some who fled to Germany too.

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