Ok!! I have 15 mins to write about the past week. here I go. (excuse the typos, please)
Berlin is amazing, overwhelming, tiring, and exhilirating. So many new things to try...Balkan dancing last night, after a booking at this posh club at the top of a skyscraper. Sadly, I´m miserable at dancing, as I´m sure most of you already know. Today we also started filming our documentary on multiculturalism in Berlin. The group of 25 students split in half, one doing a written publication focusing on multiculturalism in the business world, and the other (my half) working on a video documentary. Two German students and myself spent this afternoon walking around a Turkish sector of Berlin, interviewing families and shooting interesting cultural clashes. How often does one get to do that?? A Russian film producer from Eastern Germany is helping us by reviewing our footage throughout the week and making suggestions. And I´ll have a lovely copy to post on here when it´s finished!! V. exciting.
Breif summary of the previous week:
-Tour of the Bundestag, basically parliament
-Tour and conference at Axel Springer--Europe´s largest publishing company--focusing on Die Welt, one of it´s paper companies
-Berlin Wall
-Modern Art Museum
-National Gallery currently housing french impressionism exhibit from NY--lots of Degas--v. exciting, as he is my current favorite.
-Beer Gardens
-Karaoke Bars
-bike tour through Potsdam---probably my favorite excursion--riding bikes by rivers, over bridges, through old dutch quarters on beautiful old cobblestone streets and stopping for the best hot chocolate i´ve ever had...
-German food!!
-lectures from journalists from all around eastern Europe. international journalism is starting to sound quite enticing...
but above all, the other students are my favorite part. 25 of us--from germany, macedonia, belgium, serbia, czeck republic, bulgaria, poland, romania, panama--and just three of us from the states. and everyone gets along SO incredibley well. we have so much fun together and have the most dynamic discussions. and everyone is very patient with my embarrassing german skills....or complete lack thereof.
anyway, i have to go catch yet another train. I've never ridden so many trains...
I´ll try to write soon!!
take care*
3 comments:
Awesome! I didn't realize that you would be doing so much with this conference. I thought that you would be stuck in lectures all day every day! Well I am glad that you are having fun and how totally exciting to see paintings by Degas! They must have been beautiful. Off topic but did you ever get to see the One-Act about some guy running around calling himself Degas? I think that play alone have etched Degas in my mind and yet I have no idea what it was about anymore! Hope to hear from you soon.
MMMM delightful. I'm glad you're having fun galavanting around in Berlin. I'm not having quite as much fun in Sioux Falls, probably a lot less culture, and more hickishness. Harassing Geese? Kristin? Never....I love reading the blogs and you better let me know when you get home so I can come see you!
hey kris---send me your SF addy, k?? and you too, justin! and abby--i already sent you a message. addys!
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