Busy busy Busy!

Well, it certainly has been a while. I’ve not really stopped since my last update, what with one thing and another, but I did have a very strong urge to start this blog in German just now, so I suppose that must be a good sign. Also, I’ve become used to using a German keyboard (I’m typing this on my laptop), so I keep thinking Y and Z should be the other way round. Because that’s how they are in Germanz. I’m still webless at home, but hopefully sometime soon I’ll have worked out a way of uploading my photos from the past couple of months, so this whole page will be a lot more colourful.

But that’s all a bit by the by. The point is, Berlin is fun, and I’ve been having a lot of it. Fun, that is. Though not all in Berlin. The end of the first week of lectures myself, Kasper (DK) and Sam (Australia) went for a few drinkies in a little German pub before moving on to the club where the ERASMUS party was located. I’m glad we did this, not only because Sam and Kasper are fun, but also because, as far as being welcoming goes, the party was a bit of a let-down. It’s a 1000-capacity club, and thee were a lot more real life Germans than international types. Basically it was a normal club night, only we got to skip the queue, so I’m glad I knew people before I got there! It was a really good night though, bumped into a number of people I knew, and stayed out til the break of dawn, which was a laugh (when in Berlin…) Also, the night before, I was at a WG Party (flat party) at Gemma’s, one of a number of my compatriots here. This was also fun, though I had to leave early due to having a seminar…on a Saturday morning. It was a one-off though, so it was OK really.

Also, the week after that I got the chance to see some of Berlin, and learn more about its unique history. The ERASMUS types here had organised a trip of the Scheunenviertel – part of the former East Berlin, so a few of us tagged along for that. The number of what would pass for “sights” in a normal city was low, mainly consisting of part of the wall and Alexanderplatz, but our guide was very knowledgeable and gave us a great insight into much of what had gone on in various areas, and how things have changed since the wall came down. I remembered my camera too, so there’s a few snaps of that.