Square Toilets

On Tuesday I went on the train with Rebekah Hennessy to Berlin. Some of the "oldies" wanted to meet the exchangers who had just come in. Oldies are exchangers that came in January or February, usually from New Zealand or Australia. Seven of us met at the Hauptbahnhoff station to spend our day in the city.
    

  

(Rebekah and I on the train and the Fürstenwalde Bahnhof)

We went past the Brandenburg Gate, Chancellors office.. a lot of other stuff but we didn't stay there very long because most of us had already been there before. McDonalds in Germany is apparently better than in the US. Apparently they use better meat or something. I haven't tried it yet though and I don't know if I will haha. The seven of us saw a lot of Berlin, traveling by foot and on the U-bahn. It was a really good day, and nice to get outside in the city(:

 (Us exchangers in front of the Reichstag and Emma Larson and I in front of the Brandenburg Gate)

Since Rebekah and I live in the same city we traveled together and I let her handle the navigation. It was pretty confusing trying to figure it out. So today I went back to Berlin - but by myself! I am very proud of myself. I bought my ticket with the machine in German (because I couldn't figure out how to change it to English), got on the right train, got off at the right spot, and I only needed a little help getting on the train for the way back... I almost got on one going to Russia or Paris! But it's all good now, I made it back home in one piece.

I'm starting to get used to the whole "big city" aspect and can walk around Berlin with out my mouth hanging all they way open at the buildings and culture. Today we stopped at a food stand and I got currywurst (i think) with Jesse. As far as I could tell it was kind of deep fried sausage in curry with french fries and mayonnaise and ketchup. I liked it. Oh and I got peanut butter today. My family thinks it is so weird that I eat apples with peanut butter. I tried it with Nutella too, not so good. School starts on Monday! Sunday we are going to tour it I think.

Another thing I want to mention is that the toilets here are similiar, but I think all of them are very unique. Like this square toilet that was in a shop we stopped in. I've been told that usually you have to pay for toilets but I haven't actually seen one like that yet.