I haven’t slept yet since waking up yesterday afternoon, sooo kind of delusional. I decided to stay up all night since I had to leave at 3:45am to get to Berlin. I kind of slept on the plane briefly, but 20 minutes before landing we hit that awful altitude that makes my ears explode so I woke up unpleasantly. Upon arrival, Kevin and I went out for brunch and reminisced and talked and it was lovely. We met up with his friend Steph and walked along the Berlin Wall and looked at the art and tried to get into an abandoned building but there were these weird kids there with a megaphone yelling at us in German and we didn’t know what they wanted and we left. There was lots of chillin with other NYU kids and some doner kebab and lots of talking about German words. I’m surprised how much German I’m remembering. And it’s fun to reminisce on all the ridiculous shit we did in German class in high school. I’m really tired and going to sleep after a long late evening of liking everything on Facebook. So far, Berlin is ace. Tomorrow, wandering around museums and I don’t know what else? I’m really not planning anything because I’ve lost the will to plan out my travels. It’s supposed to rain the whole time I’m here anyway. Wherever I end up is fine by me.

— Lauren