Terror!
I got to Berlin today, and have been wandering about since. I was banking on my German all coming back to me when I got here, and so far I've been successful in talking to people, even with my biggest hurdle: getting a new phone SIM card and plan. I am now reachable by phone again; it's free for me to receive calls and texts, and ranges from reasonably expensive to ridiculously so for me to text and call. So expect more text messages from me than you're used to, and call me if you can:
+49 160 950 30 333
On my way to the phone store I bought and ate two pretzels, and on my way from the store to Alexanderplatz I bought and ate one more. I might get another on my way back. I've missed pretzels. The indoor mall at the edge of Alexanderplatz took away my appetite for a good while though, on account of it currently hosting an exhibit of 10 000 barbie dolls. Or maybe it's 1000, but anwyay it was truly the most frightening thing I've seen so far on my trip. Barbies of all types and from all decades are in cases wherever I want to walk, and posters loom up whenever I think I've escaped the display cases. The display should be gone in two days though, so by the time Jeremy gets here it may be safe to show him around the area. I've just been sitting here, asking myself why anyone would let so many Barbie dolls amass in one enclosed space, but I just can't see how or why the Germans would do something like that.
(Something I forgot earlier, probably because I was trying to block it out of my consciousness, is that the internet cafe I was using was attached to a Dunkin Donuts. I've seen a couple Dunkin Donuts stores so far in Berlin, which makes absolutely no sense to me, what with the delicious and not expensive baked goods available on literally every corner. )
+49 160 950 30 333
On my way to the phone store I bought and ate two pretzels, and on my way from the store to Alexanderplatz I bought and ate one more. I might get another on my way back. I've missed pretzels. The indoor mall at the edge of Alexanderplatz took away my appetite for a good while though, on account of it currently hosting an exhibit of 10 000 barbie dolls. Or maybe it's 1000, but anwyay it was truly the most frightening thing I've seen so far on my trip. Barbies of all types and from all decades are in cases wherever I want to walk, and posters loom up whenever I think I've escaped the display cases. The display should be gone in two days though, so by the time Jeremy gets here it may be safe to show him around the area. I've just been sitting here, asking myself why anyone would let so many Barbie dolls amass in one enclosed space, but I just can't see how or why the Germans would do something like that.
(Something I forgot earlier, probably because I was trying to block it out of my consciousness, is that the internet cafe I was using was attached to a Dunkin Donuts. I've seen a couple Dunkin Donuts stores so far in Berlin, which makes absolutely no sense to me, what with the delicious and not expensive baked goods available on literally every corner. )
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