Study Abroad Berlin: May 26, 2016

Day 4: Pergamon Museum

The Museum was definitely not what I expected. When I first looked up the museum I was expecting to see chunks of the architecture pieces in the museum sort of like the ones that they have at the Met in New York. I was not expecting to see a full sized structure put into a room. I’m in awe that people had the patience to piece the ruins together and even add to the structure of parts that were missing. That right there is true dedication to detail. The tour guide was a funny guy that kept emphasizing the fact that not all parts of the structures were original, which I mean was quite obvious. After meeting with this tour guide I have noticed that all of the ones that we have gotten so far seem to like to ask a lot of questions even if they are really trivial at times. These German tour guides like to keep you on your toes.

For lunch, Abbey, Lydia and I came across a cute little café next to the spree and stopped for lunch there. After, that we headed back to the hotel for a quick second and Lydia and I headed out with Ebony and Kady to Alexanderplatz. We walked into this wonderful store called Primark. It was like an H&M almost, but the prices were crazy good. This store tested my self-control to the maximum.

We all go tired enough that we decided it was time to head back to the hotel and then head out to find some dinner. Lydia and I decided it would be a great idea to take the tram instead of taking the subway and then having to change to a different subway. Well we ended up taking a very long and scenic walk and were regretting every second of it. Our feet felt like they were about to fall off. We finally got back to the hotel and met up with a group of them and headed out to a beer garden. I didn’t think that these would exist inside of a large city but it was very great to be outdoors during the night time, even though the sun did not go down until 10 p.m.

I walked a total of 15 miles today according to my FitBit, so I guess I am ok that almost every meal here consists of carbohydrates because believe me I a burning them up with all this walking.