Any who...yesterday was the first day of the language course. My teacher's name is Katarina and she is very nice. She talks fast but I think it is helping us with the process of learning German. After class yesterday we went to a biergarten (thats beer garden in German. See, I'm catching on!). It was fun and the beer was good. After I bought my beer, my teacher informed me that it is the beer that only tourists buy. I was a little bummed because I want to be like a native but the beer was delicious so I didn't really care in the end. Here is a pic of my bier:
Today after class I went to a place which they call Museum Island. It is was it sounds like; it is I think 4 museums in close proximity to each other and they all have different artifacts and paintings. We went to Neues Museum which has Egytian artifacts and other cool old stuff. The museum has a cool background story: it was heavily damaged during WW2 so it has been closed until the last couple of years. Here is a picture from google of what it looked like before restoration:
And here is one of what it looks like now:
I discovered today that I'm not a huge fan of museums (sorry Sister). My feet were killing me but even if I had the right shoes on, I think the hour that I spent there today still would have been enough. I payed more attention to the building itself and its architecture rather than the priceless (well not exactly priceless...) pieces. So after a painful walk back to Simone's apartment, I took care of my little piggies and am now just hanging out.
The next few days are going to filled with a couple more tours so I hope I can get some more good pictures to post. And I wanted to leave you all with this picture of Zen (copyright The Daily Show).
Keep it green!!
Nice post Brianne, keep 'em coming. Be safe!! Love you-Mom
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