Bye Berlin!

I am really really behind on my posting..

But anyway! I left Berlin and was really sad to leave, so I had to get some last minute pictures to document Kottbusser Tor my home! I also went to the Jewish Museum by Daniel Libeskind, this Jewish architect. The spaces were really stark and emotional and cold.

love the Bender! 

love the graffiti! 

East Side Gallery, the last, longest remaining
piece of wall in Berlin

Yaam, the dance club next to East Side Gallery

Pergamon Museum! One of the largest collections of
looted antiquities

Haci Baba and Wonder Waffel, my favorite places

Intersection in Kotti! 

cool graffiti by my apartment. it's interesting
because the graffiti in Berlin doesn't
make you feel unsafe.

Berlin's Tempelhof airport! Used to be an airport for West
Berlin, but too small for modern day use. Converted
into a HUGE park!  

Modular!!! Biggest art/architecture
supply store I have ever seen. Three stories
high. so much shopping!!! 

Model of the Libeskind museum.

tall, gaping holes in the museum,
symbolic of the holes in their history that
the Holocaust created.

slits for light

awesome graffiti + bikers! 

oh so clever

Reichstag!

Yay finally got to see the Reichstag. Basically there's a huge and long history about the Parliament building that you could read about.

But aside from history stuff, the experience was pretty incredible. We walked up the ramp, spiraling around the glass dome, with Berlin beneath us. The audioguide gave explanations on what each building was, so it was a great way to see the city without walking anywhere at all. The dome was pretty futuristic looking too, kind of like a spaceship center, especially the way the structure was holding up the ramp.

front of Bundestag

inside, shading device for dome. it rotates according
to the sun.

view of a rainy Berlin 

ramp structure???!

top of the dome

looking down. the purple seats are for the Parliament

at sunset

Most delightful burgers..

...are actually made by Turkish guys.

Hasir Burger on Adalbertstraße is sooooooo good. Beautifully garnished with VEGGIES

amazing veggie burger. only 3.50 Euro.

my friend's burger

love for Kottbusser Tor, the Turkish
neighborhood in which I live
and frequent.  

Dresden Day 2!

Still beautiful, though a little bit of rain! Dresden is a very skate friendly city. We lived in front of this cool skate park where a ton of adolescent boys skated and it was really funny to see them fall.

We went to the Pillnitz Castle and walked around the river.

lookit dat old sk8r boi

THE CUTEST FAMILY EVER

this face makes me laugh

delicious-Bratwurst and potato salad and spezi!  

Castle by the lake

castles in the skyline

return home to Berlin! 

We went to Potsdamer Platz three times this week...

This was the last time, thankfully.

Zaha Hadid's building at the very end

some museum

Renzo Piano's open mall

model!!!

Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall 

Mies van der Rohe- Neue National Galerie

really cool "moonlight" store in the day time

Bunker

inside the bunker!

"moonlight" store at night! 

Day of Memorials!

We went on a tour with our teacher and saw a bagillion memorials! Also Obama was here in Berlin! We saw a lot of the preparations for his speech and visit but it was a major inconvenience for us--it was like the Berlin Wall was built up again.

Soviet Memorial in Berlin

Schinkel Museum in Mitte

Holocaust Memorial

Holocaust Memorial- they put stones like this
all over the city

another Holocaust Memorial dedicated to the children
who left on the nighttrain 

a govt building

another govt building! supposed to be like a ribbon,
connecting east to west

Reichstag. REALLY WANT TO GO IN

Brandenburger Tor

setting up for Obama! 

sewer! 

memorial to the homosexuals

Another Jewish Holocaust Memorial with little girl! 

Jewish Holocaust Memorial--surreal like a rendering

names of victim

barricades.. took a long walk

LEGO GIRAFFE!!! 

Sony Center

the police barrier!