Berlin!

Hi everyone. Right now I am at a hostel in Berlin and typing on a german keyboard so please forgive me for the many spelling mistakes! I got here yesterday after a very miserable trip! The computers crashed at Amsterdam Centraal which means that all the trains were delayed. The train to Berlin couldn´t come on time so they sent us another one but that meant that rather than one smooth trip up to Berlin I had to switch trains at basically every station! Not fun. That meant that I got to Berlin after dark and had to find my hostel in the dak, in the middle of a huge city that I didn´t know. Anyway I managed to hold back the tears with some effort, found my hostel and am now having a wonderful time! The hostel is great. It has a kitchen and common area so at night I can just go there and hang out with people like I´m doing right now. The city is also very safe and I don´t feel nervous at all here! I spent the whole day looking around. I actually went to a lot of museums. I usually am not a museum person but there is so much history here I want to read it all! I learnt all about what life was like on the east side while communism was present and I got to go to Checkpoint Charlie , the main gate bw eastern and western berlin, and the jewish museum which was a little bit boring but oh well. Anyway doing it by myself has been fine! Still so much to see tomorrow like the Karl-Marx Allee and East Side gallery. Im mainly interested in the communist history for some reason...interesting to see in person how it actually works! So I will post more later! And about Deanne´s trip here too!