Today I used my last day on Eurail pass and arrived to my last destination of my summer Eurotrip. With a little of confusion, I arrived to the IES headquarters on time. And of course, with the world being tiny, one of the people in the group I first sat down with for some casual conversation attends the University of Minnesota... no Twin Cities like myself, but still. So far everyone has been friendly and talkative.
We did a tour of the IES headquarters and went to town in Berlin so that people could buy cell phones, get passport pictures taken, buy our S and U bahn passes. At one of the stops, five or so punks got on, each had a dog and they were passing around a vodka bottle with another bottle filled with juice. At four in the afternoon. Ach, I could get used to this... yay public intoxication!
My host, Uschi (her nickname is pretty cute, yes?) picked me up and we chatted a bit in German. It's starting to get less and less exhausting to speak.. then again I've been at it for the past four days or so. I get a whole floor to myself! Well, the attic. The whole attic on the fourth floor is mine and she rents it out to students every semester. Nothing felt better than to put clothes from the past week in the wash and to completely empty my bag.
She even cooked dinner and invited me to join! She has two sons (one of which will be leaving for India within a week) and a kittykatty. And bikes! She took me for a quick ride around a park, which was formally an airport (Templehof Park). It's really awesome, people are kite surfing on their skateboards and rollerblades there.
So far, so good.
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