After midstay

The "New" museum (egyptian museum)

EVA! at the parade

Klettern park

drinking coconut juice from a coconut :)

Pergamount museum!

Since I’ve been back from my midstay(may 16^th) time has been going faster and faster! I had one week of school, and I have been on break ever since. I go back to school tomorrow. (June 1^st) During the break I have been hanging out with friends and finishing things on my to-do list before I leave Berlin. There was also the Karnivale der kulturen! The Karnivale der kulturen was really cool! It was several blocks closed off and set up with booths all over the place with different foods, music, and goods from all over the world! Everyday was a little bit different. So Darcy and I went every day. On Sunday (may 23^rd) was the parade. All the exchange students walked in it. We painted our faces, and dressed up according to our countries. It was a lot of fun! (The getting ready part.) I met up with Eva who was visiting Berlin for the weekend. Eva was in Missouri last year with AFS. It was awesome to see her again! The parade went on for about 4-5 hours, and we all got extremely bored because we weren’t very organized and all the other floats were really awesome, and had music and stuff, but 15 of us stuck through until the end. :p During break, I met up with a group of American AFSers, and we all went to see Sex and the City 2 in English. Since Berlin is a multicultural city there are a few theatres that play the movies in original version rather than the German dubbed version. I’m very happy I saw it in English because I’ve decided that what language a movie is made in, is the language one should watch it in. Subtitles are good for when you do not understand that language. When one reads subtitles they can at least hear the real voices of the characters and the real tones. Another thing I did was I went to a klettern garten. I’m not sure what the word is in English, but it’s a climbing park where you have clips and zip lines and climb between wires and stuff extremely high up! I really love Berlin. I really can’t believe it is coming to an end. The year I had been waiting for years for (starting around the 5^th grade) is coming to an end. I’m not exactly sure how I feel about it. I really love it here, but there are things I miss from back home a lot! I am feeling man I really want to stay here, but also I want to go back to see my family and friends again! I know this is normal from my years of volunteering with AFS, but still it’s really hard. The quote “It’s not how much you know; it’s how much you experience” is defiantly proving itself right now.