Berlin- The Beginning

So let me  update you on my trip to Berlin, which took place a month ago... Woops 

Almost everyone went to Berlin. It was a Landscape Architecture/ GER trip but some Fashion kids and professors tagged along as well. 

We began our trip on Friday morning super early. Catching a train around 8 am. The train seemed like a great way to travel. Very spacious, more room than an airplane for sure. Our hostel, Pegasus Hostel, was orange and yellow and impossible to meet. It was a pretty nice place minus the issues we had in the beginning with paying for the rooms that the fashion people were staying in. Ladislav, my fashion professor got into quite an argument with the hostel staff. It was pretty amusing though because he is the sweetest man and to see him heated was funny. 

We all headed out to the Railroad Park. It was really neat. Its where railroad tracks have just be left and nature has taken over. It was really pretty. We walked around, looked at nature and some of the modern sculptures that were all over the park. It was a really huge park. We walked and walked and walked.

After the park we went to the Sony Center. Fernando wanted to show us it at night. It was really neat and modern. Majority of the architecture in Berlin was modern. It was really different from what we had seen in Paris, Barcelona, and what we see everyday in Prague. We walked around some more with Fernando our guide and ended up having dinner at a mall. We were all starving so it didn’t really matter what or where we ate.

Fernando had another street he wanted to show us at night. It ended up being lined with prostitutes. Prostitutes in Berlin in March wear tight jeans, tall stiletto boots, a puffy jacket and then a corset on top. It was amusing; we counted over 20 just on a few blocks. They weren’t really trashy looking besides the strange corset over the puffy jacket. The prostitute road led us to this very interesting art place. Fernando wanted us to take a look inside so we did. Mind you Fernando is Hispanic and eccentric and what he says is interesting you might want to second-guess. Well it was this overtaken building COVERED in graffiti. There was some interesting art but you wonder what drug influenced such artwork.

After the art house we headed back to the hostel and a few of us attempted to go out. We got turned away at the first club, either because there were 9 of us, we were with a graying crazy man named Fernando or it was a gay fetish club. One of the three. So after that Fernando led us to a karaoke bar. It wasn’t a normal karaoke bar but we still had a good time. The music was strange but we made our own fun. We managed to accomplish a lot in Berlin that evening especially after beginning our adventures around 4 pm.