Berlin and week number 2

The first week of camp went quite well, probably the easiest first week of camp that I have ever experienced! The kids are pretty darn cute, and their accents are undeniably cute, there are always those children who don't behave but that is to be expected. We also discovered a Mama hedgehog last week as well that lives underneath one of door ways. Unfortunately the children all poke it with a stick so we are trying very hard to keep them away from there. And then this week we came back to no hedgehog but babies that were in there with her, and... they were all dead! :( we were going to get them out after camp one day but couldn't because the mother had came back so they started to smell. But later this week we were able to pull them out by thursday but the kids had discovered them by then and were poking them with a stick which was not good. Of course I had to be the one to get them out, there was only a little gagging and coughing involved but the job was done! We also had a site visit from the head of Camp Adventure in Germany this week, she was from Iowa shocker shocker. She was very nice and very impressed with our camp which made me feel good! There have been no complaints or anything which is fantastic, I pretty much have the best staff in the world! and we all get along so well which makes everything better

Last weekend I went to Berlin with my friend Leah, and met up with two other people from Oregon and some German boys that Leah knew from having them stay with her as exchange students. Thank goodness we had them, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to travel around or known where our hostel was! Our hostel was quite nice, it was called the Sunflower and only costed us 30 Euro for the entire weekend. All of the floors were themed as well and we were are the Seseme Street floor it was pretty cool! After we got settled in our hostel we went and walked around the neighborhood. And it was pooring down rain the entire weekend so we were soaked head to toe by the time we went back. At that point I just started jumping in puddles, weird right? Me jump in puddles?! NEVER! Leah was not too amused with me but we were drenched anyways, i am very glad that I took my raincoat with me as well! On Saturday some of the Oregon people went on a bike tour around Berlin, Leah and I didn't go. We just had the Germans show us around which was pretty fun. We saw a lot of stuff, and went to Check point charlie, which is hardly anything anymore. Nor did I see any bits of the wall, but apparentely I walked right past it! My bad. We also went to Techels house which is a big old buidling that was taken over by artists and is graffitied top to bottom, there probably isn't an inch of the place that isn't painted. It was pretty phenomenal, and it is about 6 stories high! Unfortunately they are trying to tear down the building because the people who own the building don't like it, and i'm sure that they don't really like that artists just took over the building without asking. But it is such a cool monuement/place to see in Berlin! Leah and I signed the petition to save it! Sunday we were on our own without the Germans, they had to head home so were did tourists and took tourist photos. It was pretty fun! Then we met up with the rest of the people at our site and headed back to Hohne.

This week has been a blast though, we are finally making more friends on base. And the people that we eat with have really started to warm up to us. There is a colonel that eats in our Mess every night and he is hillarious! Everyone was super nervous around him the first night he came to the meal, that was until he started using his fingers to eat then everyone relaxed a bit. Last night (thursday) it was the Colonel's idea to have a dress up party for dinner so everyone dressed up as Super Heroes. we weren't sure at first if they were just playing a joke on us or not but they weren't thank goodness! I made the most awesome ninja turtle costume for me and two other girls! I was Raph, they were awesome! Oh did I say they were awesome? NO? well they were! It was a blast though, the colonel was dressed as iron man, there was zoro, spiderman, super woman, cat women, the pink panther (not super hero, but still funny), silver surfer, and Zena warrior princess!

Well we are heading to Amsterdam today for Pride weekend and it should be a ton of fun, a lot of people from Oregon are all meeting there. We also have one hotel room for 9 people so I don't think that I will be getting much sleep this weekend! But hey, I can sleep when I'm dead! Also it's my birthday on Sunday :) almost the big ol' 22! whoooooo I'll probably buy myself something real nice :)

Cheers!