Student Reports

Ling Wong: Berlin ist nicht die Stadt, die jeder besuchen möchte

I feel like it takes a certain kind of person to want to go to Berlin. It's not the typical city that everyone wants to visit, nor the typical country that everyone loves. So much has happened in German history in the past 100 years that produces a certain kind of people and such an atmosphere that exists no where else in the world, at least not in any large cities. While London is the prototypical highpoint of culture and city life and Paris is embedded (or stuck) in its history and New York strives endlessly for more and loses its sense of the people in it, Berlin is a city of never-ending energy and change. Ten years ago, it was totally different, and ten years from now, one can only imagine. To take part in that change and to share a piece of that feeling is something almost indescribable, but unmissible for any who yearn for something more.

August 2005

Joseph

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