Traveler's Life

So as you know from the last two posts, I've been traveling around from one 10 day period going to Dessau, Weimar, Dresden and Prague and one 10 period in Italy and Switzerland.
Weimar Through Prague was awesome seeing traditional European cities and how different German Cities are different from the city of Berlin too.  A lot of the famous  German cities, with the exception to Weimar, were bombed from the war so there is sometimes an interesting mix between still standing ancient structures, to rebuilt ancient structures to completely new and contemporary buildings!  It's nice in Eastern European cities too because to visit the city you won't go broke buying beer and food.
Rome and Italy in general is the flip side to that.  Where the German cities are touristy in spots, there isn't a massive overflow of tourists from everywhere.  Don't get me wrong, the architecture of Rome was amazing and it is an epic experience to be able to walk right upto and inside of these famous structures you always saw in movies and learned about in class.  Especially with the Colosseum and the Pantheon!  Alongside the famous Roman architecture, my friend and I also checked out a ton of really modern architecture in both Rome and Milan!  These buildings are little gems tucked out of the way of the center of rome where you have to figure out Rome's horrible transportation system to get to by bus.  (You'll see a few below)  Milan was alot more of the modern than historic.  The Duomo was awesome, an ancient Gothic Church, but the modern stuff there was just as cool.
I am now back in Berlin till I leave on December 11th, with maybe one more trip I'm trying to figure out to goto London.  It is a little hard to get back to cracking down and working in studio again but I'll come around haha.  We have a few more Berlin excursions left where we'll be seeing very modern buildings and I'll be sure to post them as I see them.

Prague View from River Front

Prague View 

Frank Ghery Building in Prague

Views on mountains between Germany and Czech

Fiero Rho in Milan - the whole canopy over the Building was like that

Duomo in Milan

Pantheon

Atop the Vatican!  All the other views from the top are on my Facebook

Church of the Year 2000

Maxxi Museum

From Rome

Just thought I would give everyone an update on my last two weeks or so.  Wiemar, Dresden and Prague were amazing and even though we were in a group where at times we were at odds with one another we all had an awesome time and I got to see a ton of cool architecture.  Wiemar was definitely the most "European" city of them all and you were able to walk from one side of the city to the other in around 20-30 minutes!  Dresden was also a very european city except alot of it has been rebuilt because it was pretty much wiped out in World War II. Prague was definitely the one city I was excited to go to for that trip considering I have heard and seen many different things about it!  We saw all the historical buildings and such but in our off time we went and visited the famous hisorical bridge that was a definite tourist trap but I also got to sort of point out certain parts that the movie xXx (Triple X) was filmed in at the end scenes, pretty awesome to be like "yeah vin deisel was RIGHT there!" We also got to see a Frank Gehry building, the "dancing house" which was pretty awesome as well!

From there I had maybe 6 hours in Berlin to put 10 days of clothes ect in my backpack and then my friend Nick and I flew to Rome.  The city of Rome is both what I expected and didnt expect.  I never knew it would be such an expensive city in the first place.  The food itself is great but a little expensive compared to Berlin and the beverages are anywhere from 3 euro to 5 euro a piece here!   Not to mention their transportation system is so crappy that all the rail cars are beat up and spraypainted to hell, their bus and tram stops have no markers to say what the stop is and all subway stations have no design intent what so ever, just exposed concrete with exposed wires everywhere!... on the brighter side, in the past five days Ive visited the Colleseum, Pantheon, the Vatican (including going on top of the dome where I could see the entire city!), a ton of other historic spots in rome, the Maxxi contemporary art gallery, and quite a few other modern structures in Rome too!
Tomorrow we head to Milan till Saturday, where we will see a ton of Modern Architecture along with quite a few historic ones too! Im hoping Milan will be a little cheaper than rome, but only one could hope! ;)  Ive been trying to have fun and not spend too much money on that trip, but often those 2 dont go together too well.  I cant believe that Im actually thinking I cant wait to get back to Berlin where food and drinks are MUCH cheaper!
Keep posted and I will try and upload all my photos when Im back and rested in Berlin on Sunday!
I Love You Honey! :-*

The Cusp

So it is now about a week until we goto Dresden for a week to see the Bauhaus, marvelous modern buildings from the 50's that set the tone for new modern buildings both in Europe and North America. From there we goto Prague for a week where we'll be hiking on the Polish/Czech border for a 20km hike and then checking out the very classical and some modern parts of the city itself.
After that my friend and I along with a few others will be going to Italy for a week on our "Midterm" break.  For my friend and I, we'll be going to Rome for the first 5 days exploring obviously the famous Roman architecture but also checking out some very new modern architecture like the Maxxi and the Temple of the Year 2000.
It will be quite a ride and I will try to keep you informed as I can.  I won't be bringing my laptop for obvious reasons but I'll have my itouch so if there is internet ill try to update as I can!

1 Month Already!

I can't believe its already been a month! I've been pretty busy the last few weeks between doing studio projects, exploring Berlin on my own, going to the Baltic Sea/Poland, and seeing tons of Modern Buildings! It's only 2 weeks now till we leave for Dessau (City just below Berlin - a ton of famous modern architecture) and Prague where we will also look at the city but we're also going on a huge hike on the Czech/Poland border in the mountains!  Then right when we get back we'll have a week to do whatever we want.  I am planning on going to Italy with one or two other people for the week and checking out Venice and Rome!
Between now and then we apparently have some "midterm" reviews for studio, workshop, and seminar which will be annoying but I like the projects we have going so I'm hoping everything will turn out OK.
Everything is finally working right in both studio internet and cell phones, even though my minutes are low on the cell phone right now.  Ill keep everyone updated as I can! and Keep checking here and on Facebook for my pictures!

At the Solon Solar Panel Factory

Trying out an "Offroad" Segway haha

Panoramic or Solon Facorty

Cool Building by Richard Rogers in Potsdamer Platz

Me at the Baltic Sea!

Finally Some More Modern and I Have Internet!

So in the last week we visited the Reichtag twice, once at night and once in the midmorning, which was a huge contrast to one another! We also visited the Chancelor's building, which is actually a strip of a few buildings.  There is one part of it I really really liked that I posted a picture of below.
Everything's been going good and I've been trying to not spend too much money to save for the trip in late October and our weekend trips we'll be able to do after October.
On a side note I finally got the internet work at the studio I have classes at over here.... it wasn't working since I got here for the Dell's and 1 HP and they kept saying "It's definitely your computer bla bla bla" and it turned out ALL I NEEDED TO DO WAS RESET THE ROUTER!  Kind of annoying because they said they "already did that."  O well Im just glad I have it now.
Our studio and workshop classes are finally simmering down to working upto the final project so we don't have a set deadline anytime soon just need to work on it at our own pace which I'm glad they're letting us do.  German class is sometimes very boring and a little annoying that its right in the middle of the day (230-530).  It takes a lot out of ya sitting in a room for THAT long haha.  Despite that I have learned alot though so I guess its neutralizing out.  We only have 3 more weeks of it so that part I'm pretty excited about because we'll be able to go explore and see other things we've been looking forward to seeing.  I'll make sure to keep you updated more often now since I'll have a much better access to free internet!.

At the Jewish Memorial 

Chancelor's Building

Brandenburg Square

Inside the Reichtag during the Day

Update for the Last Week

So the last week we've been everywhere from seeing ultra modern buildings like the Armadillo to this WWII Church that they left beat up and built a modern tower church next to it, to the Reichstag which is like Germany's equivalent of the White House you could say.  It's been a nice week for weather as well where it's isn't too hot that you have to bundle up, but not to hot that you're sweating that bad either!
I have noticed that people and their dogs have a much better "understanding" than we do back home because I see people walking with there dogs right next to them with no leash and they follow perfectly no matter what's going on around them and just lay down outside of anywhere they go inside to.

I haven't been able to get online much because we havent been able to set the studio internet up for 4 of us because some how I (We) have never had any problem finding a network in the past we are "missing" something that will let us see the LexiaLexia! wireless internet.  Im hoping this issue will get solved THIS week.  I hate having to goto a cafe to get my internet and even though its very very cheap to do so I would love a FREE area to be able to go and talk to people on skype and just look stuff up without worry about someone stealing my identity and everything else.  I cut the pictures down a lot just because I didn't want to throw too many on here, there are more then plenty on my Facebook so feel free to browse them there.  Anyways here's the highlights of the last few days:

On Top of the Reichstag 

Inside the Dome of the Reichstag

During the Day

Random Theatre we found looking for something else haha

They Call this the "Lemon" 

Spine of the "Armadillo"

Schloss Charlottenburg!

This was the palace for the first few Kings and Queens of Prussia, yes -Prussia- before the nation became Germany.  Couldn't take any photos inside because of stupid rules but here's the best ones I could take:

Garden Looking From Palace

Garden Looking At Palace

Coming Up On Palace

Some Pics of Germany!

Graffiti Eating Graffiti, Pretty Cool Haha

My Apartment (This one and the one above it.)

Grizzly Bear!

More to come as I take them!