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katherine_b at 07:21pm on 26/02/2004
katherine_b at 07:21pm on 26/02/2004I feel sort of half-fulfilled today. I picked up some great photos of the Rosenstrasse memorial, so I feel happy about not having wasted a film. I also sent off another box of books home, so my little room feels oddly empty now.
I next went to look for the local Town Hall, only to find that I've been there before and I really should have worked that out before! *rolls eyes* I didn't get what I wanted from there (records of governmental debates) and I think that will have to be something I examine next time.
I spent a small fortune on lunch and then went to the library to print out some old newspaper magazines using the microfilm (which I hate with a passion). It took a while and some help from the elderly gent using the neighbouring machine, but I got there in the end. Thirty cents per page, but I couldn't have got them anywhere else.
It was unintentional, but I ended up being a bit of a tourist for the rest of the afternoon. I went to a shop called "Berlin Story", which has books, videos and all kinds of tourist memorabilia. I watched a video that I have been thinking about buying and decided very definitely NOT to! For something filmed post-2000, it looked very 1980s!
I was going to get the bus home, but the line for the Reichstag was deceptively short, so I joined in, spent 30 minutes waiting, and then went in and up to look out over Berlin. It's an awesome view, particularly with all the lights on and some parts of Berlin lit up like Times Square. *sigh* Can you tell I love this city?
Tomorrow, I get to battle bureaucracy again when I de-register. Hurrah!
I'm also going to a ceremony to mark the 61st anniversary of the Rosenstrasse protest beginning. I find it interesting that they don't mark the end of it. It's not as if they mark the days when the concentration camps were set up.
Then more libraries, more photocopying, and maybe Les Mis in the evening...
I next went to look for the local Town Hall, only to find that I've been there before and I really should have worked that out before! *rolls eyes* I didn't get what I wanted from there (records of governmental debates) and I think that will have to be something I examine next time.
I spent a small fortune on lunch and then went to the library to print out some old newspaper magazines using the microfilm (which I hate with a passion). It took a while and some help from the elderly gent using the neighbouring machine, but I got there in the end. Thirty cents per page, but I couldn't have got them anywhere else.
It was unintentional, but I ended up being a bit of a tourist for the rest of the afternoon. I went to a shop called "Berlin Story", which has books, videos and all kinds of tourist memorabilia. I watched a video that I have been thinking about buying and decided very definitely NOT to! For something filmed post-2000, it looked very 1980s!
I was going to get the bus home, but the line for the Reichstag was deceptively short, so I joined in, spent 30 minutes waiting, and then went in and up to look out over Berlin. It's an awesome view, particularly with all the lights on and some parts of Berlin lit up like Times Square. *sigh* Can you tell I love this city?
Tomorrow, I get to battle bureaucracy again when I de-register. Hurrah!
I'm also going to a ceremony to mark the 61st anniversary of the Rosenstrasse protest beginning. I find it interesting that they don't mark the end of it. It's not as if they mark the days when the concentration camps were set up.
Then more libraries, more photocopying, and maybe Les Mis in the evening...
thoughtful