update

Berlin is great and all, but I have almost forgotten that I am here to do school work. It's so easy to just relax here and let spontaneity govern your days. Getting lost has never been so much fun. On the flip-side, as of right now we only have a couple more days left to finish our project, and I haven't even made up my mind between two possible subjects. But take away the hovering rain cloud of an unfinished assignment, and you could say I've been having the time of my life here. There was a small blurb in the radar that is pretty typical when friends spend too much time together, but all that is resolved now and it's back to the Brady bunch. Let's just say I gave a couple of people a walk for the money a couple nights ago, and I'm genuinely sorry. On a lighter note, we've had it pretty easy these days: waking up in time to catch breakfast downstairs, then leisurely making our way to a market or a festival or something happening that day, then hitting up a cafe and finally we've been making it a point to meet the locals at night. Even if that means going out in the 40-degree weather in the skirts and light jackets we brought for what we thought would be a scorching summer. Some of the most colorful characters we've encountered include a prostitute, who basically told me to piss off in a less polite way while towering above me in her 9-inch boots. All I ever wanted was directions...

Shortly after that we were encircled by a newlywed and his buddies, who had minimal luck persuading all the girls in our group to put on the red lipstick they had handy and kiss the groom's shirt for proof that he's still got it. It makes for a funny story though. That's all I could ever ask for out of this trip: a couple of great stories to come home with.