Miracle of miracles, Berlin actually has a summer. One forgets these things between August and April, when there's a January and a February like the ones I just survived in between! German university "Sommersemester" courses (from April through July) began about two weeks ago, bringing with them not only homework, but decent running weather and an influx of students who were doing goodness-knows-what in February and March. It seems like even European students spend their whole breaks traveling!
Last Saturday, Kara, Anne, and I went to Tiergarten, the emperor's old hunting ground-turned-park, for a picnic. On a whim, Kara and I also bought painting supplies. Not that either of us are aspiring Rubens or Klimts (we wish!), it just seemed de-stressing to play with tempera and paintbrushes for a while.
