Berlin Baby!

Here at last! Berlin is by far one of the most amazing cities on the planet! We've only been here two days and already our list of things to do and see is the length of my arm.

Had a bit of an adventure trying to get to our hostel in trying to navigate the airport, taking the massive transit system, wandering the streets of Mitte (downtown) for two hours until finally arriving. Upon hurling our massive bags on our bunks, we proceeded to make some awesome friends and get spectacularly drunk. Poor Adam (my traveling companion) got a little green about 2, but managed to feel better to have our first Doener Kebap! Kind of weird, but absolutely ubiquitous to Berlin. Today we went to see our prospective apartment, and found one of our friends and his wife not two blocks from the hostel! Good times all around.

It hit me on the way to the U-bahn again that I'm actually in another country! It just feels so natural and familiar that I feel right at home. It still feels a little scary to interact with everything so new and well, foreign but we're trying our best. The only regret/complaint thus far is that everyone we've met speaks English! We've been told this will change, especially in where we want to live and at Uni, and we expect it to, but still its hard to fully integrate into Germany as of yet. I hope to include some photos in this here blog soon as I figure out how, so stay tuned.