Spring in Berlin: a Photo Gallery

Winter is finally over and the city is alive and green. The residents have emerged from their dark caves and now flood the city streets, beers and cigarettes in hand. Our days are spent drinking coffee in the sunshine, lunching in parks with friends, drinking beers by the river and taking lengthy walks in the widespread green space that covers Berlin.

Lost in Translation: How to Learn a Foreign Language.

It makes me feel lazy. I’m sitting in a room with 15 other Internationals and I’m the only one limited to one language. They’re communicating with me in English, their third or fourth language, and I don’t even have the option to sift through several vocabularies looking for the right word to use; I’m limited to one and I feel like the laziest person in the world.