Sky's Third Berlin Post; Bits and Parts of This and That

I did have a certain expectation for the schools here in Germany. I expected the students to be a lot more mature and focused than they are in America. Unfortunately not... it's actually worse. Students talk, throw paper airplanes, and I've even seen a student walk across the top of the desks. It was a little disappointing. The curriculum is a little less in depth here too, something else I didn't expect. It seems a bit scattered and disorganized. One day in a class we're watching part of a movie, then reading an excerpt the next day, then watching a bit of a movie the next day, and none of the things we do seem correlated to the day before. Perhaps that's because they're getting so close to the end of the semester.
There are a lot of street performers here, something I never knew. Living human statues, singers and instrument players line the subway stations and streets. Some of them are really talented, too. It's not so common to see performers on the streets in America. There's so much graffiti; some of it adds to the kind of antique beauty in Berlin, but some of it isn't so nice, and it's kind of sad that it seems to be over everything. But just about everything here seems to be a piece of art; the buildings are bright colors, bedecked with multitudes of potted flowers and iridescent umbrellas, a lot of them covered in graffiti-art, performers everywhere, and so many trees and flowers growing naturally all over. Berlin is definitely it's own entity of antiquity and beauty.