Berlin, Germany

About 80 of us students took a weekend trip to Berlin. This picture is of The Brandenburger Tor. We were lucky enough to visit on a weekend where they had "raypainters" who decorated the square with laizer lights in the form of images. It was really magnificent. We took a charter bus and stayed two nights. The craziest thing I witnessed was at a gas station, the toilets were self-cleaning and by this I mean the seats actually rotated around and were cleaned by a stationary cleaning arm...Then the inside of the bowl was sprayed with deodorant. I saw many sections of the Berlin wall that were heavily protected by other fences...People come along and want their own suveniers. The Jewish memorial in this city is composed of coffin looking cement blocks that take up an entire city block. Those closest to the edge are short and the closer you head towards the center they become larger than 5 meters.