Finding a German in Berlin is like playing where's Wally
Introduction to Berlin
24.01.2011 - 05.02.2011
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The cheerful glow of easyjet orange led me here on my way to Berlin. I have been here for a while now and i have to say i am still having trouble adjusting to everything back in Europe. My immediate thoughts about Berlin are that the city does not really reflect those who think that Berlin is "dirty and sexy" maybe just a bit dirty.
As the train snaked its way through the ruins of buidings i knew that i had arrived in Berlin. Her facade was imprinted with pockmarks and stains. Grubby fingered teenagers had groped her body and left their fingerprints. The sky was a grey blank canvas. I wondered if it was possible to feel clan in Berlin. I came to Berlin to give myself some time to re-adjust to Europe and to keep myself from falling into the pit of routine at home. What have i found in Berlin so far? Something i didn't expect. I have an appreciation for her dirty charm and a loathing for those posers who take advantage of it.
I have had so many experiences so far and so little time to write about yet so today i thought that i must make a start at something. Due to the fact i have had so little time to wrte i have started writing haiku every day, trying to capture just a little moment of the day that i can keep for later. Some of these have accompanying photographs, others do not but it is designed as a way to remember the most important aspects of those days. I have been to more museums than i can care to count but i just wantd to highlight some of the more important ones. So far i have been to:
Altes museum
Pergammon museum
Salvador Dali museum
DDR museum
"Long night at the museum" where i went to -the planetarium, the guggenheim and the museum of film and tv
the jewish memorial
hamburger bahnhof
berlin zoo
brandenburger tor
berlin wall
checkpoint charlie
BG
hitlers bunker
schloss charlottenburg
boden see
beer on the trains outside
mad potters tea party
The jewish museum
Kuturforum
And that's not to mention all of the other things i have been doing as well. I will write about some of these and maybe not about others depending on time restraints. I'm afraid the entries might come in dribs and drabs. Berlin so far seems to be a city with so many contradictions. New and old. East and west. German and foreign. It really is a melting pot and there seems to be very little German about it. You can buy swaarma and falafel on every street corner, attend any kind of event from any kind of cuture. It truly is a place of multiculturalism - that is of course unless you go into the suburbs and then you are confronted with something which is defintely more German. I think that i can count the real Berliners ihave met on one hand. Quite strange really!
Here are some the haiku so far...i will let you guess where they are from...
Loud grumbling
Ceiling drips with sweat
Eyes open
Blank sky canvas
Segregates the past
Walk right through
Driving rain
Angels play unheard
Dead church lives
Hollow growl
Makes your bones quiver
Swallowed whole
Breathtaking
Zehlendorf station
Lungs in Hand
Pine creaking
Lavender, orange
Heavy breath
Posted by danni109 11.02.2011 02:26 Archived in Germany Tagged introduction
