Some pictures from my phone.
The last one is from a place called: Friedrichstadt-Palast where I went to see the film Mr. Holmes.
THE PLACE IS ENORMOUS! It's like a 180° cinema..it's sick and I love it. The chairs kinda sucked tho, no leg room what so ever.
source: http://pure.imm-cologne.de/2012/07/friedrichstadt-palast-erstrahlt-nach-umbau-in-neuem-glanz-mit-grohe-im-atelier/
source: http://www.eventim.de/friedrichstadtpalast-berlin.html?affiliate=EVE&doc=venuePage&fun=venue&action=overview&venueGroupId=1242
And now let's proceed.
The next day as I mentioned before we went to Sony Center.
So moving on to the 13th February. Me and three others went to visit Sachsenhausen a concentration camp located about 35km north of Berlin. For some more info about the place: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachsenhausen_concentration_camp
The majority of the barracks were burnt to the ground but now marked with a sort of steel frame on the ground filled with rocks to mark where they used to stand. There were also a lot of text to read which was really interesting but horrifying. I walked around the with a sort of constant stomach ache. They also had a gas chamber which was mostly burnt and destroyed but it was really unpleasant just knowing what happened there...
When we got back to the hotel pretty late in the afternoon I rested for a bit. Later I went down to the bar/restaurant area. I ordered this which was a non-alcoholic borabora (I think that was the name
?) tasted freaking awesome anyway.
Then 11 or 12 of us went to this place calles KLO which was super strange but sort of really cool?
The theme of the pub/bar was toilets...yes toilets.
pic source: http://www.klo.de/
It was a really nice place though. So we were there for awhile (until 1 or 2am I think?) and then we went back to the hotel aaaand went to sleep.
On the 14th (uh le valentines day) I went out on my own in the wonderful sunshine. Went back to places such as Alexanderplatz and Potsdamer Platz smiled at security guards at the enormous (but expensive mall) and had an overall nice day. In the evening the school bought us food at this fancy place with overpriced food (it wasn't that great [not much for the fancy stuff?] tbh but whatever)
Oh, yeah side note: I can't remember which day but the second time we visited primark one of the security guards came and grabbed my arm as I was exiting the store. Someone on there had seen someone steel something and the guard thought it was me. It was cleared up pretty fast since the person who saw the thief shook their head as fast as they laid eyes on me. The guard apologized (I hope...) in german and I was like "I'm sorry" and then I left. While I this happened the people I were currently with didn't even notice I was gone. *Falls over*
The next day all of us basically sat in the lobby until it was time to get to the airport and go home. I read Goodnight Mister Tom while I was waiting.
Then we went through the same procedure at the airport. Bought cheep candy at the duty free store, waited for a bit, got on the plane and then we got back home to Sweden. When we was about to land they turned off all the lights where we were seated (that was really cool because you could see all tiny dots of light on the ground).
Then we waited for a bit at Arlanda for a bus to get back home,I basically collapsed when I entered my room. Later I had to clean since my sister and cousin came up for a couple of days and visited :3
AAAAND that's basically it. That was my trip to Berlin! I'm planning on writing all of this in swedish and by hand to save in a book but at least now I have something to go on. I hope it was somewhat interesting to see and read ahah.
Now I need to sleep. (It seems like going to bed without being exhausted = no sleep and 1000 thoughts so hah now would be the right time.)
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