As I mentioned before, everything is closed on Sundays. And that means everything! No grocery stores, or other sorts of shopping stores are open, and only very few Apotheke's remain open for those in need of some emergency medicine. Therefore, everyone relaxes. The Sunday activity for relaxing is going to brunch - or, Sonntagsbrunch.
This morning I met up with my two friends Elizabeth and Devon in Kreuzberg for Sonntagsbrunch. Kreuzberg is in the Southwest part of the city and is known for its minority population - mainly Turkish, as Germany has a long history of a large Turkish minority. As a result, this village has a plethora of great (and vegitarisch) food. We found a nice (and very crowded) little brunch place. We sat around at our table for about 10 minutes waiting for the server, like typical clueless newcomers. Apparently if you go to brunch, you just go help yourself! After our waiter figured out we spoke better English than Deutsch, he switched languages and explained this all to us.
The brunch spreads are incredible. If I listed everything it had, this post would be way too long. But it was an entire room full of food. The way brunch is served here is you play a flat rate (€9 there) and can eat all you'd like until 4pm, and it is typical to sit there for that long - no one will rush you. Apparently it is typical to have cocktails or beer with brunch (beer with brunch? Not in by budget or taste buds!).
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| Helping 1: egg, yogurt with granola and cereal, nice and veggies sautéed in a creamy sauce, pesto pasta, and a crepe with nutella and jam. |
After brunch we walked around for a while and then traveled back to the Mitte (city center) for church. This church is quite small and pretty new, and is actually the latest installment of Hillsong churches in Europe, which is SO exciting!!!! Today they were in a different location than usual, which was actually a really nice bar. Everyone there was INCREDIBLY friendly. It was so nice being in a place where people actually wanted to interact with you and know you. The service was a little different but good, and we met a girl after who we will meet up with later. It would be really nice to meet some Berlin residents and this looks like it will be an excellent way to do so. Most of them are Aussies, as Hillsong is an Australian church, which is really cool. Elizabeth, Devon and I decided we liked it a lot and are looking forward to going back next week, when they will be live-streaming the Hillsong London service!
Overall it was an enjoyable and happy day! There was even sunshine to accompany it!
This week has a lot in store, as it is the beginning of our intensive German week. A look at what's in store for this week:
Montag: an exhibition of some sort
Dienstag: tour of the german parliament (Bundestag)
Mittwoch: the schedule literally says "explore the city" for class
Donnerstag: German History Museum (DHM) - I've heard it's amazing!
Freitag: field trip to Wittenberg - google image it!!
Have a great Montag!
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