So this weekend started off with the christening of my room as the party room. I bought some brand new speakers for 26 euro and also got a nice hookah for 20 euro, which really helped in this happening. We had some beers, kicked it to some 90s music and smoked hookah all night before going out to a bar for the night.
All said and done we got back pretty late, around 4 or 5. Normally this is great on a Friday night except that we needed to be at a bus 7:15 am Saturday morning for the school trip to Berlin. Even this would have been ok if every single one of the American's alarms hadn't gone off, or was slept through for some reason. My alarm had been set to week days only, while several of the others had forgotten they actually had to be up and went back to bed. End result was that 3 of the Americans didn't make it on the trip and 3 more of us made an epic entrance to the bus, sprinting down the last street as it was ready to pull away.
Having gotten to the bus in one piece was the beginning of our crazy adventures this weekend. My biggest regret though, came when I realized I had forgotten my camera on my table in my dorm. This bothered me in large because there are a lot of sites in Berlin I have yet to take pictures of. I do have some hard copy developed photos of the Berlin wall, but this trip we actually went to the top of the glass dome above their parliament. From the top of the dome there is a gorgeous view of the city and you can see most of the site seeing and architectural wonders of the capital of Germany.
We spent a good bit of the day on a tour through the Schloss (palace) which had some really interesting items including some swords, gilded with gold, which have survived the rise and fall of several countries. There were countless rooms in the palace that would have been perfect for pictures and I even got to see some of the royal jewels of Germany.
During the evening we had dinner at one of the local breweries, with a beer of course. The Swiss girl Lara order a meal which turned out to be something like a pig haunch, and it was nearly impenetrable. It took her quite a bit more effort then expected to cut through the meet. I personally had a delicious plate of overpriced schnitzel, which is just a meat cutlet, but it came with potatoes and a delicious tomato sauce.
Having eaten and prepared for the night we stop by the hotel for a half hour nap and a power shower before we went to Matrix for the night with Juliana and Androus (prolly spelled that wrong). On the way back I saw some Germans taking a photo and made the most ridiculously silly and epic pose I could as I photo bombed the heck out of them.
Matrix was fun, but I hated the DJ. He constantly interrupted the music at the wrong times and played some very odd choices of songs occasionally. We eventually left the club around 4 am, having had enough of the slow half hip hop half hard core rap mix. By the time we got back we had enough time for a 3 hour nap and then we were up again for breakfast and my favorite tour so far. We got to see inside the German parliament building. There was a large focus on modern architectural themes after the nazi reign ended and since the parliament building was being set up for the new government many of the features are extremely cool. It also allows one of the highest vantage points in the city if you go to the roof where there is a spiral ramp all the way up a glass dome over the Parliament.
I nearly forgot! While taking our bus tour (before we went to Matrix) our bus driver was hit from behind by another bus, which did not please him in the least. Luckily no one was hurt, but the other bus had severe damage to many of the windows and slight structural damage on the side.
That's all I have for now, I know I'm leaving things out, such as seeing the guy blowing huge bubbles in the park, but frankly I'm exhausted and need to get some sleep before class.
Sean, over and out!
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