Day two - Allied museum, Alexanderplatz Fernsehturm, Italian Restaurant, Reichstag

Yesterday we visited the allied museum by the underground, and it was a engaging experience for all of us. We learnt about the history of Berlin and the different divisions of Germany. After spending the morning there we grabbed some lunch at the train station and headed back across Berlin to the TV tower, Chloe's worst nightmare! Everyone conquered their fears and got to the top to enjoy the incredible view of the city. We all had our expectations of the 'Kaffee und Kuchen', but nothing could prepare us for the enormous slice of cake that sat in front of us! Sat in the 360 degree revolving restaurant we were able to identify the places we had already visited and admire the city from a different perspective. We found a lovely Italian restaurant to eat dinner at meaning Chloe got her spag bol after all. We demolished the huge plates of pizza and pasta but then burnt them off in the run to the Reichstag. Despite the disappointment that miss Milne had lied about the travelators we used our audio tapes to learn about the history of the Reichstag. 

Signed India, Penny and Sian

Day one - travel & exploration

From the airport we took a train to the Alexandraplatz, we then caught the underground train to the Pankow station, we then changed for the third time and took the underground to our final destination being Senefelderplatz station where we lugged suitcases to our hotel. We checked in and. Had free time in our rooms to unpack and shower. We then met in the lobby at half 7 to start our walking tour of the city. We caught our fourth form of public transport and went from Senefelderplatz back over to Pankow where we were able to explore the city. We all grabbed some food, we went to McDonalds and some of the others took food from other places, like the crepè store and Starbucks. We went to view the TV Tower and all of the other sights around, we walked for miles to explore gorgeous sights that Berlin holds. On our journey we so buildings such Brandenburg gate, the Reichstag building and we saw all of the embassies that were around. We also detoured a little to see more, such as the university, and the holocaust memorial. Whilst being at the memorial, many people felt many different things. Penny told us that she felt that it was so 'eerie' yet so 'beautiful' where as Callum, said that 'you almost felt lost, you had a lack of belonging, you almost feel inferior. The disorientation was overwhelming' he explained that he had 'never felt anything like it before'. After a long day, we finally made our own way back to the Hostel and guided the teachers too! We took the underground again to make our own way back. Arriving to the hotel was a relief for many, but the day was phenomenal. 

  Signed Callum and Sian👦👧

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1 week to go

Yay! It's so close now!

If you wanted to watch the film (some info here: http://tipsfromchip.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/movie-valkyrie-2008.html) that I mentioned at the meeting, it is called VALKYRIE and stars, amongst others, Tom Cruise.  I did say that I would do a showing after school on Tuesday next week for you, but I'm not in school that day now, do I won't be able to sort hat for you ... Many sorries. It is available on LOVEFILM and on netflix though. I think I have also found a diversion link on YouTube to it - search force full length film. Fantastic film - well worth a watch.

Don't forget to keep checking back to the blog. I'll update you on things almost daily now if I can.

Remember: waterproof and walking shoes/wellies/doc martins.

The presentation for the parents' meeting is below and can be downloaded as a pdf file, should you so wish.  The documents handed out at the meeting will be uploaded onto this blog after the parents' meeting has taken place.

BERLIN Presentation