Creepy Abandoned Amusement Park: Spreepark

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Sneaking into places is fun! This is an abandoned amusement park called Spreepark in Berlin. It dates back to pre-unification of East and West Germany. Also the end of the film Hannah was shot here…

It seems to be a very popular place to sneak into – so popular that Lisa ran into someone she knew while we were looking for a good spot to jump the fence…

We ended up getting kicked out by someone working there. Jumped the fence to freedom.

Jüdisches Museum

Maybe it goes without saying but the Jewish museum is pretty intense. You enter into a basement with a long slightly rising corridor. Along this corridor are two others that intersect at odd angles creating a path with two extra axes. Along the corridor are displays with belongings of Jews that were murdered at concentration camps. At the end of two of the corridors are large voluminous void rooms; one of them pictured below has 10 thousand screaming metal faces. Once you leave the basement level, the two floors that comprise the permanent collection detail Jewish customs and history and are much less depressing.

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5 languages in 5 cities for 6 weeks each….

Well that’s the plan thus far….

  • German in Berlin
  • French in Marseille
  • Arabic in Jordan or Turkish in, well, Turkey (somewhere)
  • Japanese in Japan
  • And Korean in Korea

List of doubts…

  • Is this a stupid plan?
  • What can you really learn in 6 weeks?
  • Why put all this effort into learning languages anyways?!
  • 5 cities and 6 weeks ends up being roughly 8 months
  • I could visit a lot more than 5 cities in 8 months.

The plan roughly was inspired by all the great things I got out of taking Italian classes in Rome during 2010.

Comments are welcome of course!