So, Berlin has been absolutely amazing. Jamie and I rented bikes and rode all over the city for the past few days. We finally returned our bikes with sore butts and are happy to simply walk and take the subways/railways, which are all called Bahns. Go figure.
Story time:
Close to my good friend Sean's house off Kottenbusser Damm Street is a little bridge called 'the friendship bridge.' It is usually packed with people, and we decided to have a few drinks there before going off to see a series of one-act plays where Anya, his girlfriend, works. (For the record, the show was amazing). However, when we lock our bikes up to the bridge, a nice german lady tells us 'we are shooting a documentary here, and you might need to wait a minute or so before you can get it.... but, if you'de like, you can join our documentary. We have free beer and food and red bull'
They had sold me on the beer, Jamie on the Red Bull (her blood sugar was low) and Sean on all of it. We ended up waving German flags chanting 'Deutchland, Deutchland' for the next 45 mins, drinking free beer and red bull. After a little while of this, the director told us to go in the background, in an attempt to make the fake-party look even larger. Even funnier, they asked us not to enunciate, simply to mouth the words. I have a feeling they could tell by our accents we were not from Germany, and maybe wanted that to be kept quiet.
Apparently this will be shown on German television during their elections in September. So you are now talking to international TV stars.... well, international TV extra's.
Today Sean, Jamie and I went to a lake off in the suburbs of Berlin. It started out being quite a nice day, so me and Sean went for a little swim, followed by munching on something along the lines of blended salami spread. While I cannot attest to its health values, I can say it was delicious. We discussed its possible role in scrambled eggs, and agreed that it would be perfect as both a butter substitute and a flavor boost.
We continued around the lake, which had a disturbingly large number of dogs. I'm not sure if it was the lake, the time of day, or the alignment of the stars, but I'm reasonably sure we saw more dogs than people at this lake. And the people we did see... well, they were naked. Apparently Germans enjoy being very very free during their free time.
It is at this time that we realized that neither Jamie nor I have the cord to take our pictures from our cameras, so this blog will be sans photos. Sorry.
-David and Jamie
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