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Funkie Junkie
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Berlin
Hi everyone,
As some of you already know, I will be going to Berlin for 5 or 6 months. I had been delaying an internship over and over but a few weeks ago I finally sent all my application letters to companies in Holland and Germany (with a little help of Meike and Sandriche, thanks!), and I had some good responses.
To make a long story short; I got a place at a cool company located in the center of Berlin, which I am very happy about!
Now the thing is...I don't know anyone in Berlin!  I've already had a short look on the memberlist and only saw 3 registered users located in Berlin of which one posts relatively often... So, I wonder if there are any people from Berlin that haven't mentioned it  I would love to meet some people from the Jamily there!
Actually, I hope to meet up with Sandriche there some time  and maybe Meike and Bear (if they can/want!). Anyone else would be welcome too!
Also, if anyone has some good tips for living, exploring, etc in Berlin, please tell me! Oh, and I'm also looking for a room there, so if you've got a spare one of those.....you know the route! (okay, minimum chance, but at least I can try, right?)
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Ms.P
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 22:21 |
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Congratulations Rob!
Sounds brilliant... ....please make sure you keep your clothes on and no Tarzan impressions!
Best of luck x
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mr.az
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 23:07 |
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you most drive a trabant on berlin
is the car that is a classic on berlin
soon i will post you info and a video
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Marina
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 00:43 |
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Re: Berlin
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| Actually, I hope to meet up with Sandriche there some time |
in the buff? |
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FunkyDonkey
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 08:12 |
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Hey Rob that's amazing. It will be a fantastic experience, maybe a bit hard in the first times but I'm sure you'll settle in very quickly.
Good luck!
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CosmicMouse
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 08:18 |
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Hi Funkie Junkie,
I am living 2 hours away from Berlin - would be cool to arrange a little meeting. Let's keep this in mind, definitely!!
(mr.az - the trabant used to be the car in East Berlin, before the fall of the wall - but that's ages ago.
I think nowadays it's a rarity to see a trabant - even in Berlin.)
Anyway, I guess I am not a good help in tips for exploring Berlin - I feel like a tourist myself when I am there. 
Good luck, Rob! Glad that you made it! 
Mouse
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FunkyDonkey
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 09:04 |
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I think nowadays it's a rarity to see a trabant - even in Berlin. |
I was in Berlin in 1999 and I saw many of them. A lot of rich people buy those Trabbies and tune them with snazzy colours and strange parts. It's a status symbol, like the old Fiat 500 in Italy...
Then original one:
Just an example of what I'm talking about:
Rich people wannabe in the spotlight but in the end they're so trivial...
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CosmicMouse
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 09:13 |
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yes, that's what I meant - rich people are buying trabants nowadays - and pimp them up. In comparison to the times of the GDR in which the trabant was the usual car for the people in East Germany - if you had a car you had a trabant - it was a status symbol in those times.
But after 1990 the trabant disapeard very fast from the street.
Today it is a cult, and a kind of rarity.
Mouse
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FunkyDonkey
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:07 |
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Maybe I'm driving a bit offtopic but there's a movie about Berlin that touched my soul. I saw it two years ago, it's called Good Bye Lenin!. Some more news here.
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CosmicBear
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 14:06 |
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as rare as trabbis might be these days - there is one driving around here in leicester! it's always parked outside the house where a friend of mine lives and i'm always tempted to leave a note on the windscreen in german just to find out if this car belongs to a german immigrant or not HEHE |
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Maxud
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 14:37 |
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trabbi - the last sign of the ddr... it is a real clut car
sorry but i hate berlin
i was there often and i know the city and im not excited of it... everything is grey and maybe you know the friedrichsstreet or maybe you know more checkpoint charlie yes its a very good street but if you go to a street nearby this one youll see the normal berlin...
old grey scyscraper, sometimes poor people or people that lost their optimism. in the underground or better s-bahn you will need some bravery when you use it at midnight.
the locations you should go to are the "reichstag" (it will take some time till you can go there) the friedrichsstreet, the europecenter (europacenter) and you should go to the old rest of the "berliner mauer" (the wall that was the border between the brd and ddr) and the locations nearby. (or better everythign around the reichstag^^)
and where to sleep?
hmmm i dont know...
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deesh
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 14:47 |
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FJ - Congratulations!
Maxud - You just described the majority of cities across the world. There are poor people everywhere that have lost their optimism. There are also rich people everywhere that have lost their optimism. That's hard to escape 
Also, the fact that you live in Germany may play a part in you hating Berlin. For someone who has never been, it's a chance to see another culture, another city, other than their own and that's dope. It's like when people say 'I'd love to go to New York City or I'd love to live in New York City'. While I DO love New York, I am a bit jaded because I live near it and am there all the time.
I am excited to go to Berlin and anywhere else I've never been. It also depends on who you are with. If you go with chill people, you can have a good time no matter if the environment sucks or not. Well...maybe that's just me...
So FJ - hopefully you will meet some other people in your school or people that are more familiar with the city. Regardless, have a great time and enjoy yourself.
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FunkyDonkey
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 14:56 |
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When I went there back in 1999 I could breathe in the air the will of rebuilding the city. I remember Postdamer platz was a big construction site and this view enchanted me. It's pretty different to find a capital city in Europe with a so big will of renewal. I can understand what Maxud said, it's a citizen point of view, mine is a tourist one.
I'd like to come back there just to see how the city changed.
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Maxud
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 19:36 |
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| FunkyDonkey wrote: |
When I went there back in 1999 I could breathe in the air the will of rebuilding the city. I remember Postdamer platz was a big construction site and this view enchanted me. It's pretty different to find a capital city in Europe with a so big will of renewal. I can understand what Maxud said, it's a citizen point of view, mine is a tourist one.
I'd like to come back there just to see how the city changed. |
yes it changed they finished much buildings like the memorial to the victims of the second world war
and here something for the wartburgfans:
http://unf-unf.de/show1515.html
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mr.az
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 20:15 |
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yes, that's what I meant - rich people are buying trabants nowadays - and pimp them up. In comparison to the times of the GDR in which the trabant was the usual car for the people in East Germany - if you had a car you had a trabant - it was a status symbol in those times.
But after 1990 the trabant disapeard very fast from the street.
Today it is a cult, and a kind of rarity.
Mouse |
yeah i know
used to be the car in the east
i know there's a site with videos and pics...let me find the link...i downloaded a advice of that car...i dont know why i like the style of this car 
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