I really need to learn to blog more, don't I? Anyway, here's a quick post before I run out to the big SDSU going away party. I'm uploading some pictures now. Apparently I can only have 500 per album, so I have to make a new one and finish uploading them. Berlin was mostly good. We felt rushed and severely unorganized. I think I would have gotten more out of it if I would have gone alone and taken a tour. Our "tour guide" for the trip is one of the professors for the American Junior Year program and he didn't speak loud enough for the group of 20 he was leading. He also had a problem with turning his back towards half the group when he talked. We complained to our professor and he talked to the program director. She said they're not used to having people here who want to learn. Apparently we snuck into the program where mommy and daddy pay for their precious little snowflakes to spend six weeks in Germany and get a few credits. So when they had students that wanted to learn, not just go to Berlin for the fun of it, they didn't know what to do. We also didn't go to any history museums, except for the Jewish Museum, and there we focused on the Holocaust and exile. We did go to an art museum, which was really cool. I'd really like to go back to Berlin as a tourist and get to really spend time there. I also had issues with the tour of the Reichstag. We were told that we would be given a tour in English, since there would most likely be words we weren't familiar with. When we got there, they told us that the tour would be in German, but if we wanted we could ask questions in English. This upset me, because when you're learning the language, you're constantly trying to soak up as much as you can. Also, if you hear a word you don't know, you stop to figure out that word and then get behind. I just think we would have learned more if it would have been in English. When we brought it up on Monday, we were told to "go to the website". That really bugged me because I didn't spend all this money to browse wikipedia. All in all, it was a very frustrating weekend.

However, I must run for now. We're having a final get-together before most of the SDSU students fly out tomorrow and we're going to watch Germany beat Portugal! I'll try to post tonight or tomorrow about my plans from here on out.

P.S. European flags (including the EU flag) are cheap right now because of the Euro Cup and are easy to pack. At most, a full size flag costs 5 Euro (about 7.50USD). If anyone wants any, let me know the size and the country and I'll see what I can do.