19 Juli-- Day 20

Okayyyyyy I'm back! YAY.
unfort, all of these are gonna be a little more rushed than normal, while this is my one day off this week, and I have... a week to catch up on. Anywayyyy

So, me and MC had to do a project for our 'german language' class (not that they're not all 'german language' classes) where we're assigned a place (think a nyc borough or something) to explore, a walking tour, and then we have to talk to some locals, eat at a cafe there, etc. So, we were assigned.... PANKOW.

In case you can't see-- that says "Berlin- Pankow"

It's originally a slavic name, if you don't think it sounds good enough. It used to be the homes of the rich people, and party members, but now it has some of those types of people, and lots of old people and lots of pregnant young people (well the women are pregnant anyway) and lots and lots of strollers + kid friendly cafes.

Typical street in Pankow-- lots of balconies, lots of flowers

Anyway, we got off at S-bahnhof Pankow, which is wayyyyy in the north. Takes like an hour to get back home. First stop was what used to be an Jewish orphanage, and is now a library. Nothing too remarkable there, but we did see some interesting pictures.

My favorite little orphan. He looks like he's having such a fun time.

Anyway, we found this little museum called the "Heimat museum"... so "home" or "homeland" museum. It was literally just a couple of apartments that got turned into a museum. However, MC and I quickly became buddies with the two super duper sweet old ladies who work there. They played us music, sang songs, chatted, asked us questions, and made us sign the guestbook. We ended up taking some photos with them.

We had a very nice performance for us: It was one of those "Well-Tempered Clavier" pieces by Bach

After our linner (dunch?) here:

Yummers

MC and I then went to this bread museum. Not on the map, but we passed it, and it seemed interesting

we also passed this: it's a factory that got turned into apartments.

So-- bread museum. It used to be (shocker) the house of a baker. There's actually still a bakery there, so we bought a pretty large loaf of very excellent, very fresh bread. This oven is freaking large. It can hold like 80 large loaves of bread at a time, and it was like 7 m long (or I guess, deep) or something probably bigger. There we 'interviewed' "real people" and had some nice conversations with some nice old ladies (and the baker)

The baker, and the super long "putting-something-in-the-oven-stick"

A very long train ride back home, and that was pretty much the end of my day.