June 2006
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Die Berliner Mauer
East and West Berlin as seen through remains of the Berlin Wall:
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Fotos Des Tages
A couple of shots from the postmodern Potsdamer Platz built after the fall of the Berlin wall.
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Half a Brecht
Brecht is hard to understand when translated to English. It’s even harder in German. It’s a lot harder when it’s performed for you so that you can’t read the text. It’s harder still when you completely miss the first act, are jet-lagged, hungry, and tired. But I somehow made it through my first German play – Brecht’s Mutter Courage – and lived to tell about it. One of the Professors in the...
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Fotos of the day
A couple of pictures from wandering around Berlin on Saturday, June 24.
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Fussball in Berlin
I still think soccer (football) is boring…but I love the world cup. On Friday, friends and I went to an area called “fan mile” – a strip more than a mile long stretching from the Tiergarten near “Berlin Mittle” all the way to the Brandenburg Gate – to watch the Ukraine versus Tunisia match. Before entering the fan mile, every fan is subjected to an extremely thorough pat-down, mostly to check for...
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Hallo Berlin
I made it to Berlin, and, thankfully, the journey was far less harrowing than my expedition to Halifax, Canada last summer before my Semester at Sea experience (read about it here: The first thing that struck me about Berlin’s Tegel airport is how small it is, considering Berlin’s prominent place in world affairs. When I arrived at Munich’s airport two winters ago, it struck me as a modern,...