Today I woke up late annnnnd missed the tour I was going to go on. So I decided to try and figure out the S-bahn. I managed to find the correct train to get me to Tiergarten with only a few issues. I was going to walk through the Tiergarten park but as soon as I got off the train I was distracted by an antique market. As I was wondering through it (after I had just purchased a crepe for lunch) it began to pour. Since it had looked nice out earlier I did't have my umbrella or rain jacket with me. I got soaked again. That'll teach me....
So I headed back to the hostel to change into some dry clothes and ended up taking a little nap (Jetlag's a pain in the butt).
After my nap I went back out to Tiergarten and walked a ways through it. The park is absolutely beautiful with bikepaths and lakes and all kinds of trees and plants. I took a little detour and visited the Reichstag. I continued up the road and saw the Brandenburg Tor and stopped for a snack of Currywurst (which was delicious!).
My walk home took me in front of the Beriner Dom and Museums that I had visited yesterday. Today though, the Lustgarten (the grassy area right in front of them) was full of people and music. I stopped where a big group of people had gathered and watched a Peruvian dance group. Then there was some kind of announcement in German and all of a sudden these firebreathers come running out of the Altes Museum. This music starts up: Think tribal beats with whispering and chanting. An old lady in white carrying a loaf of bread and a whole bunch of half naked women under bubbles come walking down the stairs. Then these crazily dressed people on stilts start dancing about. There were all kinds of different outfits and body paint. (Go to my facebook for all the pics) The whole thing was quite strange but very interesting!
Soon after they disappeared, the German announcer comes on again with some long spiel involving the word "helicopter" a whole bunch. Everyone in the crown looks up as this helicopter flies overhead and drops millions of bookmark-sized pieces of paper. A lady next to me explained that on each piece of paper is a poem. Apparently Germans like poems because this helicopter dropped millions and millions of this paper. It came around like six times. The paper would flutter down and people were going crazy, laughing and snatching it out of the air. Even the adults were jumping all over; I was almost landed on twice. By the time the helicopter was done there were no papers on the ground, people were even jumping into bushes and shaking trees to get them. All around me people were comparing cards and reading poems. I managed to grab four, each with a different poem on it. I'm going to translate them tomorrow.
And then I walked the rest of the way home, and now I'm exhausted.
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