Italian food in Germany?
I woke up in time for breakfast
where I was surprised to find a pleasant dining area large enough to fit
everyone in our group comfortably. I was also pleased to see that they had a
plentiful fruit salad available, to which I happily helped myself to. I was so
used to drinking espresso every day, however, that their meager coffee had
almost no effect on me. I had a very difficult time waking up. Nonetheless, I
went with my marketing class and the accounting group to the company building
Deutsche Bahn. While we were waiting to be allowed to enter, the accounting
teacher gave a brief history of the Berlin Wall that separated the East and
West side. There is still a small wall in front of the DB Building to give an
idea of how it looked. It was completely covered in chewed gum and graffiti.
The wall showed pictures of how the city looked before and after the wall was
erected in different areas of Berlin. When the wall was taken down, there was
much more nature and beauty than while the wall was still up.
When it was time to enter the DB
building, we were each given a lanyard to identify ourselves. After being taken
several stories up via elevator, the group entered a welcoming room complete
with fruit drinks, sparkling water, tea, and coffee. Everything was set up so
nicely that I was almost afraid to take anything! The head of marketing for DB,
a train company (ironically the same one that we took the day before to get to
Berlin), described the marketing sector of the company and how the business operated.
I took a few pictures from the windows of the room and followed the professor
to the Sony area behind the DB building. There was a cinema, IMAX Theater,
several restaurants, and much more. Instead of eating there, I went for a walk
with my friend and eventually came across a delicious looking Italian
restaurant. Sure, it wasn’t German food but we had the whole rest of the week
to have that, right? I ordered a five cheese pizza with lemonade and ate
everything. Eating outside, it began to rain so we went inside to pay the
check. Another friend came shortly to meet with us and we all walked back to
the hostel under an umbrella. Later on in the day after a bit of relaxing, I
came back out with my friend and a few new people to go grocery shopping. I purchased
an adorable Hello Kitty bottle with an apple-peach drink inside. I also got
some chocolates for my friends. I went to bed relatively early that night.
