A Summer of Muesli

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Strolls

Yay finally some pictures are up. I don't quite remember when I went, so I'll just say Tuesday or so. I walked around the area near my apartment.

park/walkway

HACI BABA is my favorite place.
This is a Dürum Kebap, this yummy
Turkish food. sliced meat and veggies in
an 18 inch long wrap.

Monday, June 3, 2013

Sophie Charlottenburg Palace/Alexander Platz

Tour to the Charlottenburg Palace today.

walkway to the palace

palace courtyard

gate man

go go gold

crazy landscaping in the back

the landscaping was seriously large

funky trees that become rectangular every 3 years

Hobbit bus!

Fernsehturm : I did not take a good picture of it really

funky wings

THE WING THING DOES NOT TOUCH THE GROUND??

kid is jumping by the fountain

trying to get picture of the dog, but got the ground +legs instead

folding structure canopy

children's petting zoo near apartment

hullo

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Took a tour of South East Berlin. Unfortunately forgot my camera, but my roommate took these awesome photos!

List of places we went/saw:

-Haci Baba: YUMMY FOOD. can post pictures of food from there later because I will go back. I had a chicken schnitzel (flattened, fried meat) in a wrappy sandwichy thing with salad. delicious.
-train stations and such
-Treptower Park Soviet Memorial: The word they described it as was "impressive" --indeed it was impressive. makes you feel small.
-cute garden: instructional for children and such
-instructor's home: had some yummy gingerbread? chocolates
-Bohemian village: cute little houses
-cute restaurant: little house in a garden, had MORE schnitzel. more schnitzel than I need. Potatoes were delicious too. Also tried blood and liver sausage like a good Taiwanese would.
-Flea market! cute little stands where you could buy power tools and towels

Saturday, June 1, 2013

Berlin!

Sorry, no pictures.. only some links!

I arrived in Berlin at 8 am. There was hardly any security kind of thing. The guy just looked at my passport and asked me what I was doing here and let me go. No customs or anything either.

Took a nice bus + subway ride from the airport to my apartment and just absorbed the surroundings as much as I could, with the help of our resident director who picked me up. Napped for about 4 hours and got settled. Apartment has huge windows, furnished with most things you could need and balcony! Views are great-in my bedroom window I can see a tennis club. From the balcony There's a small playground!

After my nap, I embarked on a mission to get toilet paper and a cell phone cause those were two things I did not have. Found that they have Yang Le Duo! (Yakult) and some interesting foods.

Also saw a Turkish protest? I'm thinking it had to do with these protests. Well even if I'm a little clueless, it was interesting to witness.

So here's a list of things I noticed about Berlin or Germany or Europe that I think is great:
-huge windows, operable for ventilation (think this is Germany)
-SO MUCH green space, lots of parks and public spaces--and they're not empty either (think this is Berlin)
-lots of bike lanes (Germany?)
-lots of recycling. we have 5 different bags for trash, compost, paper, glass, plastic.... etc (Germany)
-lots of food on the streets!!! Small shops. just like Taiwan
-tons of graffiti--sometimes can be nice
-transportation is quick. you can get a monthly pass for 77 euro and use it on buses, trains? and subway
-subways are fairly nice too. Biggest difference was that you have to push a button to open the door

Here's an article that my roommate showed me of differences between US and Germany- was quite interesting to read.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Hey Summer

This blog is back! The first few weeks were really hectic since I went on two trips. First one was the Charlottesville to see a bunch of people graduate. And the second one was to the Outerbanks! Lots of fun. Overwhelming fun.

A quick and clean summary of OBX without people in it: