Berlin,
Germany
Thursday, June 11, 2009
so im still on the computer that mixes up the z and y so please keep that in mind. anzwaz we just got bak from a wonderful night out in berin but well get to that later. this citz is fucking awesome!!! its so amaying with all the holocause historz, it makes zou sick, but zou loveit all at the same time. we saw where hitlier killed himself...infact, the germans are so disgusted with hitler and what he did that thez refuse to even puta sign on top the place, so its impossinle to find unless zour with a guide. thezre afraid that if thez put a sign there, ti would become a shrine for the new natzies.probably true. anywho, night 1 in berlin we basically wandered the streets and stuff...we saw the biggest/most visited parliament building in the world, it was HUGE!! got ther right at closing time so half our group got in and the ther didnt...BUT WE DID! then we walked around and found a bar called white trashed, it had like old pub furniture and was kind of a punk rock idea with all kinds of ppl, kinda neato. then went upstaris in the hostel and got bombed with the contiki crew! Day 2 started witha free walking tour we took thru the hostel....very cool...took us to all the major areas where the berlin wall stood and lots of holocaust sites and stuff, very depressing. did u know that one day the germs woke up to find that east berlin and west berlin had been divided and they werent allowed back to the other side?? And that barrier didnt go away for 28 yeras? So if you slept over at a friends on the other side of town, or worked a late shift, you went home to run into a barrier and learn youd never see your friends or family ever again, and this lasted 28 years. Thats so weird to me. And also, its cool cause the berlin wall was acually brought down (in 89) by ACCIDENT. A few ppl in parliament had been discussing what to do about al the revolts going on against the wall right before a press conferance...the guy that had to be the main speaker for the conference was running late, so he got there 5 mins before the conference, they had no time to tell h9im what theyd discussed, and just gave him the notes. so when a media person asked him "What are you going to do about the wall??? And the revolts<: he didnt know the answer so just looked at the first thing on his notes, which was actually an idea they WERENT considering, read it out loud....it said "we will be breaking the barrier between west and east berlin and allowing people to cross whenever they please".....When?? Asked the reporter. He already knew hed made a mistake, but didnt want to look like an idiot, so was forced to answer something. He said "...effective immediately"...so 100s of thousands of trapped germans flocked to the wall and overwhelmed the border guards, who hadn't heard of anything of this....by force, abut 10,000 germans rushed through the wall before the guards knew what was happening, and the berlin wall was demolished forever, and familys that hadnt seen eachother in 28 years finally reunited. Isnt that nuts?!
Anyway, last night we went to a beer hall, i drank 2 steins (liters of beer) with supper of banane weisbier ( a banana flavoured wheat beer)...AWESOME. went to a shisha club, then an old communist pub...very weird. then went to a massive 3 room club called matrix...soooo fun. there were lots of gay ppl in the techno room!!! got home about 330 or something and was very hung over tocay. Now we're in prague, which is an amazing city, but i'll write about that tomorrow!! Hope you enjoyed the history of berlin llol
