guten tag aus Berlin

(sorry if the title is not correct... i don't actually know any german, except for montag uhm acht heur. hello, ich heiße waldolf... waldolf bauer, ich bin neu hier etc...[spelling??])

Well, i have now spent 2 days wandering the streets of berlin taking in the sights and enjoying what the city has to show me. I arrived on tuesday evening and walked into the hostel to meet 1 peruvia, 1 italian, 1 american and 4 spanish who were all talking about religion and philosophy until the early hours of the morning... WELCOME TO BERLIN??

wednesday i wandered through the city on a free walking tour and learned a bit about Hitler and also the East/West divide... yesterday I just wandered myself the whole day and explored the East side gallery (part of the wall that was given to artists to paint on) and then back to checkpoint charlie and the museum of terrorism and then gave up and came home after too many hours of wandering. my roommate is a dj and invited me to go to watch him spin, but i had a pretty huge headache... so maybe tonight... as it is my last night here. I am really enjoying this place... definitely one of the highlights of europe.

oh, and yesterday after i had a really cheap and lovely lunch some guy came up to me to ask me if i knew about the situations with the banks... and if i wanted to give a donation to his cause yadda yadda yadda.... and then i said, well, i'm not from here and then he asked to give me a sheet in german... well, not speaking or reading german, i decided to say, I'm not going to read it, save the trees or give it to someone else who can and will read it. then he said, oh, so i care about the trees, but not about the economic welfare of the world and then gave me a huge lecture about how i am selfish and that i will get what i deserve and that i am a cold hearted b#tch... yeah, ummm, thanks dude... that's going to want to make me read up more about your cause...

oh, and then i went to buy some fruit and my camera cord got caught on a sign in the supermarket, and i heard it fall, but i didn't click (and the area was pretty dodgy and had a sort of roma feel about it...) so i kept walking and luckily a man ran after me and gave it back to me... (praise God). then a security guard saw him do that and said he is a roma... you understand... and don't forget that... random... but I am very lucky being in that area 1)that i wasn't pickpocketed and 2) that something that fell out of my pocket was actually given back to me... I think i was being looked after!!

and so, today, hopefully go on another walking tour and go to the riechstag... which means that I should get going... but i have had a great time here and just really enjoy soaking up the atmosphere and thinking about all the past and where berlin has come from and now is...

righty-oh... hope you are all well... I'll be back in london on sunday... and have a list of people a mile long who i would like to phone... so, you might be one of them!! haha... and if not, please don't be offended!!!

love to you all!
deev
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oh, thanks tami for having me and schelle stay with you in Oslo, and taking us on a lovely cross-country skiing tour! I will write up about that in my next blog entry and add some lovely photos from berlin and my norway adventure.
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and found out that rach is moving into 62MG funtimes... my first room in London. haha... that means I can still use my old (now her new) backyard in summer... bring it on!!!! congrats rach... i hope your times there are as good as mine were!!! oh memories... haha

february fun times...

well hello hello to you all... i'm sat on my couch in my loungeroom with charlie and the chocolate factory running and all of us (and two friends )being very sociable on our laptops... haha... it's quite fun.

i was going to tell you all about all the great things that i have been up to, but i am not going too because i am too tired... (might be the glasses of red wine i had with dinner with rach). we had brie on steak with rice and a few veggies, followed up by maltesers for dessert.... see mum, i am looking after myself!!! and i'm not even having healthy choice meals.

righty-oh, just touching base, don't even know if anyone still reads this... but i am still alive and kicking, going to norway on friday for the weekend and then to berlin... should be quite exciting

anyways, bed for me soon.
love to youse all
deev
xx

p.s. val and grandma, i go to spain because i am learning the language and love the country! no other reason!!!!!
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