After returning home on Sunday and catching up with Zach and the family (and even getting a surprise conversation with Memaw and Gramps) I got a good nights sleep and was able to wake up for an early portable roots class for an excursion to the Jewish Cemetery at Weissensee. The Cemetery was really interesting to see and is the largest Jewish cemetery in Europe. With alot of devastation during the Nazi time it is also an incredibly significant historical landmark.
Afterward I headed back to IES for film and then back home to work on a presentation for my late class. With everyone in the class having to present I didn't have time to go today but I did get my paper back (the one I wrote in Vienna) and I got an A-!!! I'm so so s excited and even though it was supposed to be a practice one, he's letting us keep the grades to count as one of our 4 write ups if we want!!! SWEET!!
Tuesday, Oktober 21
Today was another day of classes. We had an interesting debate in German class this morning which I participated in and we also received our term paper assignment...write 3 pages on a specific part of Berlin that you love. Well duh, the turkish market! And in German and Jews I was assigned the "Neue Synagogue" for my presentation which is really exciting.
On the way back from class I ran into a family from London who was lost and (like the Berliner that I am) I gave them directions to get to Alexanderplatz and got the chance to talk to them. So fun to help someone out with my German. SO FUN!!!
I headed to the Turkish Market where I was (for the first time ever) hit on by one of the Turkish teenagers working the fruit stands. I bought my fruit, for a small discount that is, and then headed back for a relaxing and unproductive afternoon....say it with me everyone:
PASS. FAIL.
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