I took the plane from Basel on Wednesday evening to be at the old airport at 8am. They still had Covid ‘don’t sit here’ signs on every second chair in the entrance area, and, just in case it was some kind of test, I nicely obeyed. The others did, too! The questions were very different than I had expected, I really wouldn’t have had to prepare for a normal job interview. Also, nobody cared the least bit about my bag – it stayed in the waiting room anyways, while I had to go to answer questions. And there was more waiting than actually talking to the interviewers. They had water, coffee, sandwiches and snacks, and it was quite nice. I was the second one in the list, so got out kind of early and the holiday started 🙂
The next morning, I met Mo, we had Arabic breakfast, walked around his quarter and then I took the bus for some sightseeing and shopping. In the evening we met again for Korean food.
Because it is so close, and because Germany is kind of boring, I went to Szczecin the next day. Part of the train line is under construction and there was a replacement bus ;( Upon arrival – the city seemed dead. There were no people outside. I had some food, walked around, had more food, did a bit of shopping, walked around some more, and then went back to the train station because I was cold.
Back in Berlin, I had Vietnamese pho and went back to the hostel. And then Mo wanted to meet again, because he wouldn’t have time tomorrow. So he came.
On my last day, I went to some fleamarket (boring) walked past that Jewish ‘blocks’ monument, Brandenburger Tor, had a pretzel, took a photo of the Bundestag from outside at least (yes, I’m very interested in politics,…), sat in the park, had coffee and cake, and then read that there’s another market in Mauerpark. I guess that’s my kind of place. I took photos of stuff I will make myself, had a currywurst, and bought some Greek (or German-Greek…) food for the next days.
