I also reduced my bank moneyz number by 4,600 dollars. Tuition and a flight to Switzerland!
Something interesting I did see recently was a protest in Berlin. I saw a couple demonstrations in Minneapolis or whatever, but nothing compares to this. I was even told to try witnessing one before I leave because they're so intense. I am not too sure what they were protesting, but there were many police officers, a line of hundreds of people going down the street, interrupting traffic flow (that includes the Strassenbahn/street trolleys). I could hardly get to my subway! They were also all blowing whistles... it was just insane. No one could get anywhere...
Today me and another lady from IES went to Poland! It borders Brandenburg, and our student ticket covers us til we get to border, so we just had to pay a total of about 9,20 Euros each, round trip to visit another country - A little nothing town called Rzepin. We didn't do anything really, mostly because we didn't want to exchange our Euros to Zloty. We also got harassed by little teenage girls... who followed us, boxed us in, yelled Polish to us, asked our names in German.. and this went on for a while, but then we just ignored them (but I laughed a bit just cause it was soooo fucking ridiculous). I am actually googling "why Poles hate Germans" right now.
We basically walked around for almost three hours.We got severely lost and didn't want to ask anyone for directions because the Poles hate Germans and American tourists are shit. I guess I could have tried asking if they spoke Bosnian because I learned today how similar the languages are to each other. I feel like I understand more Polish than Russian! We marched through rain and mud. The ticket seller lady didn't speak German or English, which I find inconvenient because they're on the border and working at a train station... where people travel... ummm. I did enjoy the walk though, no doubt.
