It's been a while!

Update of the where's/when's/how's coming soon.

So, during Spencer's visit we went to good ol' Schloß Sanssouci in Potsdamm!

Park map:

Fake obelisk: 

A view straight down the main pathway

There's the Schloß (palace)

Here are some deities struggling to hold the building up:

Oh! Look who it is! It's me :)

The ruins in the background were actually constructed to look like ruins! They are fakes, and they were also in style at the time:

A pretty walkway:

The Chinese Tea House: in the centre of the room there is this amazing (and intentional) echo effect that sounds really neat:

The tour guide I had in Berlin said that these (that are on top of the historic museum in Berlin) were not present at Potsdamm. I just proved him wrong:

Recently re-constructed castles: The one on the right has a duplicate (that is not in the photo) on the left. They were going for symmetry, but I couldn't fit it all in the photo!

OH WOW! LOOK WHAT I FOUND!!!

And here is a 1933 - 1945 war memorial:

Amazing yogurt in a very artsy place:

We went on a school field trip to the Pergamon Museum. It was pretty amazing. This one room had the entire geneology/family tree for the Roman/Greek Gods! It took up the entire space!

The most amazing part of the museum is that they reconstructed buildings to their actual height from this lost city WITHIN THE MUSEUM! It was really impressive. The buildings were huge, the tiling and painting, and sculptures, and frescoes were so intricate!!

Keep in mind, this is IN THE MUSEUM:

This is made up of tiny tiny TINY tiles:

DO YOU SEE HOW BIG IT IS?!

These are made out of brick-sized tiles.

A goat! I love goats!

After the tour we went to my intructor, Andrea's house, and she had this! Could you imagine what I would look like if I had no will power and access to this jar?

And within it her room mate installed a climbing wall! Her house was so cool. It is filled with many large apartment sized bedrooms, but each floor has 2 bathrooms and 1 kitchen.

Here is her balcony:

A police trabi!

A juice trabi?

Me when I found out the "Die Welt" Balloon was closed because it was too windy :( It goes up 150 meters in the air, so it makes sense that they wouldn't let people on it.

It's a field of glorios trabants! I wonder what Opa's looked like!

The beautiful roof to Potsdamers platz :)

I got Carlene's letter in the mail... She sent the mustache, so I pretended to be French :P

A few days later I went to the world famous Jewish History Museum. They talk about everything jewish, including womens studies, the inventer of Levi Jeans, the Holocaust, religious traditions, traveling traditions, AND MORE. I didn't have enough time to see everything. They also had a large grassed area where you could go to a beer garden, or enjoy the sun, or the shade. The building also was designed by a famous architect. The shape is the logo of the museum, you should look it up on the internet, since it is very zig-zagged.

Interesting architecture:

Here is a symbolic pomegranate tree that you can walk up and hang a wish (written down on a pomegranate shaped piece of paper) and hang it up there. 

You can't see the one I hung up...

Jewish Alley:

Hebrew Alphabet

This image documents the tradition of women at night bathing in ground water before getting married, after menstruating, and after having a child. Later in time men started doing it too.

There is a famous Jewish woman writer who documented her life (she ran a business), her children, and her devotion to God. But what I really liked about her was her penmanship! Her signature is beautiful.

Inventor of Levi's Jeans:

More interesting shapes:

This cloth was from the Nazi rule, and although many yellow stars used to identify people with Jewish ancestry has been seen, seeing the full cloth was quite rare:

Here is Elisabeth! She was my guest sister from when I lived in Kassel in 2009!! We met at Potsdamersplatz, had some drinks, and then went of to watch Spiderman 3D (in English). It was a good movie, but it was even better to catch up with Eli.

On this particular day I went to the Bundesrat! When the Russians took over, they left their signatures on the walls of the building:

This hallway contains the name of every single person voted in to take a position as a representative for various communities/voting regions. There's just one black box... guess who that represents:

Here is where they hold there sessions:

The representatives from below can look up to the people they are representing:

The people being represented look below:

Fiona, Erika, and I went on a boat cruise!:

Nikolaiviertel church! This is the oldest section of the city, and the church is the oldest part:

A good hunk of the wall:

I wouldn't want to go under this bridge if that guy was staring at me so angrily...

Memorial for people who died trying to cross the river when the wall was up:

Erika and Fiona:

Museum Island and The Fernseherzentrum: