The day you have all been waiting for has finally arrived! Yes, that is correct: Blog Update Day. Thank you to the many who have been so patiently awaiting my next post.
Well, I think it's safe to say that I am comfortably settled in my internship and I really enjoy it. The aspect of it that I most like is its variety--I am never doing the same thing. For instance, on Tuesday I served as translator for my boss (whose English is "not very good" but whose Swedish is...does not help me) when a gentleman from Qatar came to look at the museum. He is interested in building a children's museum in his country and wanted to learn more about what, exactly, children's museums should have and what is required in order to make that happen. Anyway, I translated for my boss and the meeting went really well. It only lasted an hour but afterwards my boss told me what awonderful job I did and how I should consider being a translator. While I don't foresee that, it was nice to hear!
Qatar Museum, designed by I.M. Pei.
In getting back to my variety of tasks, on Wednesday I actually worked "in der Halle," which refers to the current exhibition: Alle Anders Anders. That was my first day actually inthe museum; before then I had been primarily in the office. It was kind of a slow day, from what I hear, as there were not many kids for some reason or another. I roamed around and then pretty much planted myself at "die Werkstatt" and helped kids create puppets. One girl burned her finger on the hot glue stick and started screaming so I rushed her to the
bathroom to run some cold water over it. She was fine but...yeesh.
Theeeennnn yesterday I went to Labyrinth Unterwegs, the museum's offsite work facility, where I designed and painted these boards as part of the museum's summer program. There are three in total and I won't describe what they're for because it's too confusing but I will say that I finished one, started the second and on Monday will finish the second and start (and hopefully finish) the third.
Mürke (I'm not sure if I'm spelling her name correctly) is in charge of my work at Unterwegs and she is really pleased with the painting thus far, which I am super happy about. Before going to Unterwegs yesterday I was quite nervous because I didn't know what she would be expecting of me and if I would do a satisfactory job. My worries were for nothing, though, because--as I said--she was pleased. I will try and remember to take pictures of the boards on Monday when I go back!
I'm pleasantly surprised that there are so many art-related things for me to do at the museum. From what I hear, too, there are only going to be more! Mürke did tell me that if ever I get tired of painting, though, that I am absolutely free to do something else--again: variety!!
Now, to conclude this verrrrrryyyy long post (sorry) I will end on a sad--but in retrospect, funny--story:
After work at Unterwegs yesterday, I decided to check out Wedding Art, which was having the opening of their "best of" 2009 artists. According to Google Maps, it looked like it was in the vicinity so I thought I'd check it out. Well, it was a good 20 minutes away but, I thought, Oh well...should be good. It was not. I stayed for maybe 10 minutes, looked at some crappy watercolors and left. Now, let me say that I have NO sense of direction so if I veer from my known path, I will get lost. I thought that by instead of retracing my steps, which would take too long, I would go the other way because that will lead me to my ultimate destination faster, right? No.
Seemingly interesting event:
http://www.freeguide-berlin.de/kultur/wedding-art-14-kuenstler-13-monate-1-kalender/03-07-2010.html
I charted my walking route yesterday and here is the absolutely disgusting route I took. The only place I did not walk was from Gesundbrunnen Center to Schönhauser Allee:
Because I was trying to save money and not buy a Wochenkarte this week, I instead lost my soul by walking everywhere. Note to self: spend the 26 Euros next week and buy a week ticket.
I treated myself to a brownie from Impala Coffee because I thought I had earned it. Now, I cannot even begin to describe how good these brownies are. While my daily sandwich stint (*see previous post) did not really last (a Euro a day really adds up!), I do plan to make to make it a goal of mine to get one of these little babies every week. I can quite positively say that these brownies are the best I have ever had. Impala Coffee also has this delicious "Tiger Spice Chai Tea Latte" but with the onset of hot weather, lattes do not appeal to me all that much--shocking, I know. My friend visited Prenzlauer Berg a couple of months ago and recommended this place to me! Thanks, Allie!
I ended my very long day by going to the Pergamon Museum, which was superb. Even though I was utterly exhausted, the museum was totally worth the visit--mainly because:
Ishtar Gate, which, Wikipedia states, was the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon and was constructed in about 575 BC.
1. Museums in Berlin are free after 6:00 on Thursdays.
2. Wedding Galerie was a bust.
3. I got to see a lot of really beautiful artifacts.
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