Around Berlin.
A sillouette shot of the Märkisches Museum.
Outside the museum. To me, this sculpture looks like its a person holding its hands to cover its ears. Or maybe I just had a really long, long day of class...
Our Mittwoch Exkursion (Wednesday excursion) Checkpoint Charlie (the third checkpoint) between East and West Berlin. We went to the Checkpoint Charlie museum that examined the many absolutely ingenious ways that East Berliners escaped (often with the help of West Berliners) to the West. Coincidently, there was a hot air balloon outside when we came out. We had just read about one of the most intense and hair-raising escapes from East Berlin: Two families, eight people all together, built the largest hot air balloon that had ever been built at the time and flew over the Wall. The searchlights in East Berlin reached nearly a mile into the air, so they had to fly even higher than that in the middle of the night, with nothing more than a few ropes around a platform to keep them from plunging to death. They were successful, however, but after their escape, purchases of nylon cloth were forbidden in East Berlin. Just one of many remarkable stories.
I went to visit my great aunt and uncle after our field trip, and stumbled upon this little Oster Baum (easter tree). There are colourful Easter eggs all over the city-- I eat one for breakfast every morning and one can even buy them to eat at the Mensa (the cafeteria) in Freie Universität!
A sillouette shot of the Märkisches Museum.
Outside the museum. To me, this sculpture looks like its a person holding its hands to cover its ears. Or maybe I just had a really long, long day of class...
Our Mittwoch Exkursion (Wednesday excursion) Checkpoint Charlie (the third checkpoint) between East and West Berlin. We went to the Checkpoint Charlie museum that examined the many absolutely ingenious ways that East Berliners escaped (often with the help of West Berliners) to the West. Coincidently, there was a hot air balloon outside when we came out. We had just read about one of the most intense and hair-raising escapes from East Berlin: Two families, eight people all together, built the largest hot air balloon that had ever been built at the time and flew over the Wall. The searchlights in East Berlin reached nearly a mile into the air, so they had to fly even higher than that in the middle of the night, with nothing more than a few ropes around a platform to keep them from plunging to death. They were successful, however, but after their escape, purchases of nylon cloth were forbidden in East Berlin. Just one of many remarkable stories.
I went to visit my great aunt and uncle after our field trip, and stumbled upon this little Oster Baum (easter tree). There are colourful Easter eggs all over the city-- I eat one for breakfast every morning and one can even buy them to eat at the Mensa (the cafeteria) in Freie Universität!
you eat easter eggs for breakfast? like...chocolate...for breakfast?
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