I've been super busy in the past few weeks - went to Longbridge in Basel to teach English to Swiss kids twice, and now I'm up north in Berlin. Here are some assorted pictures of everything!
These pictures are from Langenbruck, which is where we have the Longbridge English camp.
Blake, a friend from high school, and his cousin Angie were on vacation in Germany, so we met up in Zürich for a day. It happened to be the first day of Fastnacht, which was quite a surprise and a neat coincidence.
Berlin is super cool. They even have an NPR station, and we're listening to Garrison Keillor. On Friday, there was a get-together of some random assorted Waldsee people, which was a lot of fun. We went out to some tiny village in Brandenburg, and had some really good food. Lots of fun.
I've been saying with Antonia (real name: Christina), a friend of mine from Waldsee, who also sheerly randomly happened to be in Hamburg and London the same summers that I was there. She's got a neat group of friends, with a lot of people who grew up bilingual and/or are half-American. We went to see some of them (some of whom I had even met before!) and had my second Thanksgiving of the weekend, and third this year.
I also visited Ronny, another counselor from way back, and saw his kids. Thorsten (Chris), a Waldsee counselor from Rochester, is the godfather for Julius, the older one. It was fun to run around with a 2 year old for a bit.
As I saw most of the "must-see" attractions when I first came to Berlin 5 years ago, it's not too frantic and I've been able to enjoy myself without worrying about what I might have missed. We're going to head out now to see an exhibit about the Berlin Wall - should be exciting!
