As I write this Jason is in the car heading for the Fort Lauderdale Airport to be whisked away to me while Barry storms its way into Florida...After arriving in Amsterdam tomorrow morning and getting over his jet lag, he will take the same train I took to get here to Berlin on Tuesday the 5th! ...I think I´ll cry when I see him stepping off the train in the Berlin Hbf.
Last Wednesday evening I had a nice talk and walk with Regine...we had met at the Fernsehturm near the Alexanderplatz and then walked west to the Spree River passing the Neptune Fountain and the Marxs Engels Forum where there were these huge statues of both scholarly giants:
In the background were these interesting reliefs of men:
We continued on with our meandering and parted ways on the Wilhelmstraße making plans to meet on Monday.
The next morning I was invited by Armin to attend a lecture given by Hartmut Teuber at Humboldt University. He had given me the address and it was quite easy to find taking the S-Bahn to the Friedrichstraße Station. The topic was Audism. Armin was interpreting at the lecture with another coda interpreter, Christjane. It was interesting for me because there were all these ways to access the lecture for me: German, German Sign, ASL, power point text (thank the gods for latin roots), and Teuber´s style of presentation...I think I kept on the main points very well and he had everyone in the room thoroughly engaged. I loved him referenceing Jacque Derrida and phonocentrism.
On Friday, after getting a haircut at a place on Kantstraße, I headed for Prenzlauer Berg and had lunch at a cafe called Sowohl Als Auch...meaning, literally, Both As Also. I´m working on a translation for this...my dictionary gives me that it is a conjunction meaning both...and. I suppose I could have asked but that´s not my style and I am sure the topic will come up in conversation sometime soon. The Gazpacho was great, btw.
In the evening I went to the Nollendorfplatz and tried out an Ethiopian Restaurant called Bejite. After a cup of strong Ethiopian coffee and a small bowl of popcorn, it was recommended that I try a very spicy lamb dish. It came with three large thin creppes that I tore apart and used to eat the lamb. After dinner I was offered honey wine that they made in the restaurant and it was delicious.
This morning I went to the market and purchased a number of items: cheeses and vegetables and fruits. Not so many tomatoes this time. I brought some Quark which is a dairy product. It´s kind of like cream cheese but not. Its close to Ricotta but not; and it is not cottage cheese. Manuela introduced me to it and its great spread on bread with marmalade.
...photo album Berlin 6.2.2007...
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