The German Experience- Berlin

When coming to Berlin, my expectations were met completley. I knew what big cities looked like, and I understood what public transportation was but what I didnt know was how everything would end up working out. The food, the people and the city itself all work very well together and so far in my experience I have learned that typing this blog post is very very difficult because of these weird keyboards. The shift key is smaller and the "y" button is not in the place it should be on an American keyboard. I've enjoyed so many things that its hard to tell you about all of them. I dont know how to speak German very well so when it comes to ordering food my go to line is "Mein Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut." which translates to "My german is not very good." Many germans understand english so it ends up working out in the end. However, there are many Turkish people living in Germany and the Turkish cant speak english hardly at all. The Turkish are much like many other minorities in America and NorthWest Arkansas. The Turkish can speak german though, so I can communicate very little with the minorities here in Germany and Berlin. 

The german capital of Berlin is a hotspot for history gurus that crave knowledge about both world wars, and many other exciting historical sites. Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp is one of many historical sites that carry the results of war but also the reason to come together for one cause. The Berlin Underground, which consists of not only the Subway systems but also many old Nazi World War 2 bunkers are still in tact to this day. Civilian bunkers as well as military bunkers are scattered all over Berlin.  One fun fact that I had no idea about is that the Nazi party wanted to build around 4,000 operational bunkers for the duration of WW2, but because the war was already underway early, they only build about 1,200 operational bunkers above and below ground. All in all ive been learning a ton about WW2 and german culture, and I believe there will be much more learning to come in the next week and a half.