Berlin: Day 1 A.K.A The Wall - July 17 - Isaac Dean & Olivia Young

The first half of the day was a car ride with a stop at Marienborn (the east/west German checkpoint).

Olivia: In the van I sat next to Sydney and Jakob and we slept the entire way. It was pretty cool because we could walk into the buildings that they used to check the cars. There was one room where the cars would drive over a grate and the would be people below checking to make sure they weren't smuggling anything. 

Isaac: the car ride was lit, cause we were jammin' to High School Musical, but that's beside the point. While everyone was looking at the stuff Olivia mentioned; Jacob, Noah, and I walked across the lot to a watchtower-thing that was on the ground and we explored that for a while. I thought it was super cool. The whole things was a neat experience. It represents a time of darkness in history but it's nice to know we can learn about it so something like it never happens.

We arrived in Berlin to our hostel and had an hour to rest and unpack.

After that we went to the wall. The Berlin Wall. The wall that separated East Berlin from West Berlin.

Olivia: On the wall there were many different paintings. They wee suppose to have different interpretations but I didn't understand most of them. But the art was really cool to look at. There were some that were really colorful and others that were dark and weird. We were supposed to take a picture of one that we though was cool. I choose one that was a car breaking though the wall. I don't really know why I choose it, I just liked it. 

Isaac: Same, Olivia. Most of those artistic metaphors went right over my head. They still looked rad though. I chose one that looked like a demented Dr. Suess thing.

We then ate schnitzel at a schnitzel place

Olivia and I both agree: it was dope.

We ended the day with apple strudel back at the hostel. It was okay. Real sub-par.

Now we're blogging.

Now we're blogging about blogging. 

Woah.

Meta.

In all seriousness: today was a very educational day, and we learned a lot about the separation of Germany and the dark times it entailed.

- Isaac "SnaPoint" Dean

 &

- Olivia "Forever Young" Young