{"id":43,"date":"2019-07-14T18:41:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T18:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/helenabroad\/?p=43"},"modified":"2019-07-14T18:41:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T18:41:36","slug":"getting-adjusted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/helenabroad\/2019\/07\/14\/getting-adjusted\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting adjusted"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was my first actual full day here. I slept through the night (thankfully), so my jetlag isn’t as bad as it could’ve been. I started the day with breakfast – some Muesli,<\/em> and apple, and coffee. My host mother, Isabel, ate with me and we chatted a bit.<\/p>\n

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The view to the backyard from the sunroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The sunroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My breakfast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At 9:30,\u00a0 I met Claudio at the train station, and from there we went to Prenzlauer Berg (a neighborhood of Berlin), where we had a bike tour. The tour went through different neighborhoods in Berlin, and our tourguide, a local here, was able to give us so much extra detail about the different places. I’ve taken German history courses and have taken a tour of Berlin, so I thought I knew a lot, but I learned so much more today. In some neighborhoods (ex: Prenzlauer Berg), the gentrification is so extreme that less than 10% of the people who lived there 20 years ago still live there today due to rising rent prices. There is an old WWII bunker still standing in Berlin-Mitte that was originally for shelter from the war, but later on, it became one of the best known clubs in Berlin. Some years later, the building was sold for 1 Euro to a man who wanted to house his art collection. Today, the art collection is still there, and it is a modern art museum, open to the public. These interesting tidbits are the kind of thing you don’t learn in a college course.<\/p>\n

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Der Berliner Dom<\/em> (The Berlin Dome)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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French Dome and Church on Gendarmenmarkt<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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German Church and Dome on Gendarmenmarkt<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Konzerthaus Berlin<\/em> (Berlin Concert House)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For lunch, Claudio and I met up with another API student, Adam, and we went to a Lebanese restaurant. The food was delicious. Afterwards, we went to the Mauerpark<\/em>, which is located in the area that was between the wall for East Berlin and the wall for West Berlin, known as the Death Strip. What used to be such a negative and scary space is now a big park that has a huge\u00a0Flohmarkt<\/em> (fleamarket) on Sundays. There are so many stands and booths at this\u00a0Flohmarkt<\/em>, selling things from secondhand clothing to children’s books to old typewriters. Claudio joked that many people who sell things at the\u00a0Flohmarkt<\/em> are on the line between “collecting” and “hoarding” items to sell.<\/p>\n

The rest of my day consisted of me navigating the\u00a0U-Bahn<\/em> by myself and then relaxing at home with my host family. Tomorrow, I have to take a placement test, and I’ll be able to meet more students.<\/p>\n

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My host family’s house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The street the house is on<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was my first actual full day here. I slept through the night (thankfully), so my jetlag isn’t as bad as it could’ve been. I started the day with breakfast – some Muesli, and apple, and coffee. My host mother, Isabel, ate with me and we chatted a bit. At 9:30,\u00a0 I met Claudio at… <\/p>\n

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