- My hair dryer exploded and forced me to buy a new one.
- My straightener freaked and burned a chunk out of my hair.
- I have quit using all electronic hair altering machines and have now been attempting to use my hair's ability to hold curl to my advantage.
- I ate blood orange yogurt.
- I received one of the biggest chocolate bars of my life!
- I acknowledged my love of blood oranges and the reality that it will therefore be hard to go back to the US! (as with about everything else I have eaten!)
- I gained a new respect for German rules (see picture below)
Yes, that does say no crocks allowed on the escalator! My kind of rule!
Last Thursday, we visited the Free University, Berlin to see Sir Norman Foster's library.
The "Rust Bucket"
"Rust Bucket" and "Brain" - the library
I was so excited to see this library! Back in the day, Erkin, my studio professor, showed it to me when we were designing our own!
Awesome!
Stair "core"
Had to prove I was there :)
This may be one of my favorite spaces I have ever been in! Sir Norman Foster (the architect) described the library as striving to recreate the feeling of sitting under a tree with a good book on a cool summer day. I think he achieved this nicely!
Friday, we took a day trip to Dessau (accent of the first syllable). It was our first time really out of Berlin and it was nice to have almost two hours to just relax on the train and watch the world roll by.
Looks like home! ;)
We visited the UBA (German version of the EPA)
The whole building is designed with energy efficiency and "green"-ness in mind. It requires only 30% of the energy it would take to run a normal office building of the same size!
I love that the Germans are not afraid of color!
View from above
Then on the Bauhaus!!!
Architectural Mecca!
It is so surreal to actually visit the places we have studied for years!
Sunset through the trees (reflected in a Gropius house)
My "Wahltah Gropius" pose!
On Sunday, I was super excited to finally make it to church! It was such a welcome relief, although a bit different, as I had to have a translator. A nice guy who studied in Australia sat behind me and translated into my ear the whole time! I was excited, though, that I could pick out a few words I knew every once in a while. Still, they speak so quickly it is hard to follow what I do know... We sang mostly in English, too, which was exciting for me. I recognized one of the songs sung in German so I got to pretend I knew what I was doing! No better way to learn new words than to sing a chorus a few times! I think I would learn a lot faster if we sang everything!
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