I like drawing

I especially like drawing here, because everything is new to me or mostly new. So I've been drawing and watercoloring a lot lately and filling up my sketchbook, so I might need to get a second one if I fill this one up before the end of my trip, which I see happening.

Here are some of sketches from the last few days.

for this one the only thing I was actually referencing was the hat

A Day of Fun

Waking up this morning I was sent to buy some rolls from one of the bakeries for breakfast. Upon my return Inge and Ludwig (my host parents) had some bad news, an animal had killed all but one of their chickens in the night. So Carl (their son) and I got to clean up the bodies of the unfortunate chickens. But after that the day was much better.

One of Ludwig's colleges was hosting a fun day for all of their clients. The fun day was essentially a mini version of Amazing Race all around Berlin. There were 12 teams, each team had about 12 people on them and we had clues to get to places, and questions to answer where the answers lead us to different places where we either were timed to complete a task or had to race other teams. It was a very fun time!

The kid in the center is Carl, my host brother/chicken clean up buddy

Ludwig ( my host dad)

Claudius (one of my host brothers)

Boat race! I'm in the boat on the left

Needless to say, we pwned

Wild boar! (in a fenced wooded area...)

Curry-wurst!!! Soo good!

Fun day game- dress like a mammal and go through an obstacle course

Apparently 4-wheelers are also in Germany. This was part of the
fun day games. Our team won, and we actually got medals made with metal!

There are so many Different flowers here!  It's amazing,
there are some I've never even seen in pictures before.

Hello!

This is going to be more of a photo blog of my travels to Berlin this way my friends and family sans-facebook can see what I've been up to!

I've been in Berlin since the evening of the 25th (morning/afternoon of the 24th back in Alaska) I'm staying in the Tempelhofer section of Berlin which is in the north eastern part of Germany. I'm staying with a host family who are very friendly and welcoming, they've invited me to a lot of different events that they're going to and I'm very excited.

A very tasty sandwich I got at the Freie Universität Berlin and a medium coffee
probably equal to 8 oz which is my kind of coffee

These are the stairs I get to go up and down everyday to get to the
room I'm staying at (45 steps up 3 floors!) The house is very tall and narrow.

Even though my host family lives close to the city they have chickens and
a very beautiful garden.

They have raspberries

And grapes

And a peach tree. They also have 2 apple trees, 2 cherry trees, and
an apricot tree, along with a green house where they have lettuce, radishes, and
other vegetables

Berlin is an extremely bike friendly town, bike lanes everywhere!
There's roughly a bike for every car in the city. This is the bike my host family is  kind enough to let me use while I'm here.

This is the room where I get to stay! The bed is very comfortable,
that or I'm just so exhausted from walking everywhere :)