Eating, Walking, Running Berlin

This past week has been FULL. On Tuesday after class Roxana, Libby, and I went to the Old Museum. It's a giant Schinkel neoclassical building:

that houses Greek and Roman art. Since I USED to study ancient Greece, a lot of it was very interesting for me.



Me and my earphone scrubs


A statue of Aphrodite


A Roman sarcophagus



On Thursday Melissa, Annie, and I gave our group a tour of Viktoriapark. It's a fairly large park in the middle of Kreuzberg that houses a giant Schinkel-designed memorial to the Napoleonic Wars. Here it is:


And here is the view of the memorial from the front of the park:


And here is everyone taking pictures of the memorial, featuring Max giving me a lovely look of interest:


Friday we went to Potsdam, and explored Sansoucci Park. Here's a few pictures from there:

Me, Libby, Roxana, and Ashley in the garden in front of the Roman Baths


Ruins from the old Schloss, shown to "raise awareness" of new construction (awareness=funds)


Roxana and I in front of a gate a Schloss Sansoucci

This weekend I visited the Deutsches Filmathek (German Film Museum), which was REALLY cool. They had original storyboards from The Birds, Apocalypse Now, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Gone With the Wind, and a bunch of other well-known New Hollywood films. I really enjoyed that, as well as the whole exhibit on German film. I learned a lot that I didn't know before! I wish I could post pictures from there, but they don't allow pictures in that museum. Unfortunately.

On Saturday I ate my first Berlin Currywurst. How, you may ask? I went to a vegetarian fast food restaurant called . Really good. SEE:

See.