Back from Berlin the 2nd, with some more info about Berlin ;)

Hi out there!
So, this is the actual report about the time in Berlin. Actually it's not a report, it's more of a summary. Well.

Because we had the great idea to take the city night liner to Berlin, we arrived there at 4:26 am. Which meant, that we had to spend around 6 1/2 hours somewhere with our heavy luggage. We ended up drinking coffee at big M and walking slowly through the central station. And it's an AMAZING train station! Seriously, that station flashed me, and I would move in there if I could XD I was so impressed, that I forgot to take photos there! (and maybe too tired and smashed from that 7 hour train trip...)

Jeah. After some coffees we went to the art school, turned in my portfolio, went to a friend to unload our luggage there and returned to the city to do some stupid tourist stuff. XD

Like taking photographs of the Brandenburger Tor (= Brandenburg Gate says wikipedia)...

Proof! I really was there ;)

(During this time I allready was that tired that we didn't even recognize that the picture was cut on the up and low edge. Damnit!)
Did I mention that it was f.........uuuucking cold in Berlin?! It's not that I try to hide my face on that photo or something, I just didn't want to expose more than necessary to that coldness. And we had that amazing gray sky till we traveled back home...

Well enough of the weather (it was just freaking cold!)...
We also visited the Holocaust Memorial. Walking through it, although its apparently just a bunch of grey building blocks, made me kind of uncomfortable. And it's also strangely fascinating for a bunch of blocks...

Shot from somewhere in the middle.

So, that was the day, and we just went to bed at 6pm. And slept. It was amazing.

The other day, we visited the Gemäldegalerie, and spent half the day watching at amazing paintings :D Than we went to the art school again, to get the result of the portfolio-test, and we spent about over an hour there standing in a queue O_o
Apparently there were about 300 people who tried for that study course alone, and the art school accepted just 30 for the second test... And according to the last years I was told from these 30 will just 15 get into the course in the end... and that put my dissapointment into another perspective. There are about 270 girls n guys who also didn't make it, and there are more art schools in the world. Yay! 8D

Third day we spent with some ineffective shopping (which means, we bought nothing), and I think the reason was kind of that "wow, I can buy all that stuff in cologne, too... and than I don't have to carry it the whole time and way back home!"
Guess Berlin is just a bigger cologne...
In the evening we ate some pizza with my fiends uncle. I've never eaten a better pizza in my life. *slobber*
Yeah, and the next day was the last day, and before we traveled back home, we visited an exhibition at Camera Works with works of Mark Laita. The exhibition was very small, just 3 rooms with big pictures, but the photograps were damn beautiful, and I wished I had the money to take that octopus and put it on my wall back home XD On the side of Camera Works is a small slide show of some pictures, but in real they're much more impressing ;)

Yeah, and than we traveled home, about 10 hours (with regional trains, because that was the cheapest way ^^; Only do that if you really have patience, good books and like train traveling XD Other ways it will bore the shit out of you. Believe me ;D).

Conclusion? Berlin is a grey and ugly town in winter, and I really don't need to live there, but I want to visit it again. In Summer. When it's not that cold ;)

Have a nice day ^^