An Adventure Indeed

The weather has been really nice the past couple of days! It's been sunny and blue skies, although still pretty cold and windy. But, the sun has been great.

For my architecture class I had to go on a self-guided walking tour of the Embassy District here in Berlin. I spontaneously decided to go on Tuesday afternoon because it was such a nice day! It was pretty warm and I really enjoyed just walking around, even though I went by myself.

The tour ended in Tier Garten, which is a huge park in the center of the city that used to be hunting grounds way back in the day. And in the middle of it, in the middle of a giant traffic circle, stands the Victory Column. This was the first time I had been to the Victory Column, and it was a lot bigger than I expected! It has a beautiful golden statue on top, and she is a cross between the goddess of victory, Victoria, and a lady who is the symbol for Prussia.

So, I walked around the Victory Column's base and almost left before I realized that you could go up to the top and look out!! So, of course I had to go do that. 265 steps later, I was looking out over Berlin. It was so exciting to be able to pick out buildings I knew and recognized. This made me feel like I really live in Berlin and am getting to know the city, which is really exciting. That was one of my goals for my time here, so that was really encouraging. Also, it was such a serendipity to get to climb to the top and look out over the city. I really enjoyed it.

Today, I went back to the Victory Column with some friends to go up again (this time with my camera!), but little did we know, it closes at 4:30! BOOO. We were just about to go in as the lady closed the door on us. So we ended up walking through Tiergarten and ended up by Potsdamer Platz and eventually the Reichstag. And then I could piece together how all these areas connected, and that too, was exciting!

Tomorrow we are going on a day trip to Potsdam, which is a separate city a little bit south(west?) of Berlin. And a week from tomorrow, I leave with my program to go to Paris and Amsterdam for a week! In that time I have lots of papers to write and various other things to get done for classes, so I'm feeling pretty busy. And it's hard to believe that when I get back from our Paris and Amsterdam trip it will be April!!!

I hope all is well with you all and the Lord is constantly reminding you of his goodness, love, faithfulness, and majesty.

Edits

Hi!

So somehow my friend Dan was accidently signed in to my blog when he posted that last post. So that was supposed to go on his blog, but ended up on mine! We are still not sure how exactly that happened! So, sorry to everyone who thought I went to Greece (I unfortunately did not get to go to Greece for 11 days).

I did just get back from Stockholm, though. And I too would like to post a longer post about the weekend, but I will have to do that later.

Real quick, some highlights were:

- eating moose meatballs!
- seeing Jenny Knox, who is living and interning with Campus Crusade for Christ in Uppsala, Sweden (STINT for all you who know the Cru lingo), and meeting her roommate, Ginger (who is also interning)
- seeing reindeer, moose, snowy owls, and wolves (at an open air museum, not in the wild!)
- walking around the really pretty Old Town
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