The Land of Sausage and Beer: My Blisters have Stories

So the past few days have been insanely crazy. We had orientation, then some more orientation, went on a boat tour, a walking tour, and then went to the Night at the Museum. Today is our first and only day to relax since school starts tomorrow so I figured I'd update my blog while eating Nutella straight out of the jar for lunch.
We started Friday off with a tour of the Freie Universität (that's the school that my program is associated with) then took a long boat ride on the Spree River where we saw a lot of really cool buildings that I can't remember. It rained so that kind of sucked since my umbrella's broken but I'm a trooper so I managed. The boat tour ended somewhere deep in former East Berlin and from there we walked to the Soviet Memorial which was really cool to see since every aspect of the memorial has some significant meaning behind it.
On Saturday we took a walking tour of Berlin where we look stylish with our massive headsets. We learned a lot about Berlin. It was really cool to learn about its history while actually looking at the buildings and going to the places where it all took place.
After that tour a group of us went to the Night at the Museum. Where for 10 euros you can see 80+ museums all throughout Berlin from 6pm to 2am. The event started with a helicopter flying right outside the Berliner Dom dropping 100,000 poems from the sky. Everyone ran around trying to grab them from the sky. My friend Nicole got me my first one then I got 2 more and gave one to some old lady, then got hit in the head with another one. So I got 3! After that we boarded buses to go to the museums. We ended up only going to the Gay Museum and Checkpoint Charlie. Checkpoint Charlie was where the crossing point between East and West Germany was. After an eventful week I'm glad today I can relax and start freaking out for school starting tomorrow.