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Today
started off with a lesson about how to travel the streets of Berlin. The system
is probably the second hardest of all three of the Great Capitals that we’ve
visited. Dr. Shanklin was kind enough to lead my partner and I almost half of
the way to the destination of my first interview in Berlin. He did a great job
of explaining the differences between the S bahn and the U bahn. The S bahn
goes over the city, and the U bahn goes under. His instructions helped us to
get to the company that I needed to interview just in the nick of time!
As we walked up to “Maison de la
danse”, we saw a man locking up the building and unlocking his bicycle. When he
saw us approaching, he was about to go on a lunch break, and wouldn’t be back
until 4pm, which happened to be the time that we would meet for our class trip
to Reichtag (which is like the equivalent of the U.S capital building for
Germany)! It took a minute, but I was able to get him to answer all of the
questions that I needed. I had to talk really fast though because I knew that
he was ready for that lunch break.
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The trip to the capital building of
Germany was absolutely stunning! We got to see where parliament votes on
issues, and learned a little bit about how the process works. One thing that I though
was really cool about the building was the prayer room. In the room, a famous
artist created multiple artworks that represented all of the religions that are
practiced within parliament. In each design, there are nails embedded that
signify the pain and suffering that we live through on earth. The room is a
place where a lot of members come to pray before making very tough political
vs. spiritual/moral decisions.
