Ahhh sorry I really haven't given up on you I promise!  It's just been crazy busy here!  I'll probably post this update in two posts so it doesn't get too long.

So I honestly don't even remember when I last posted...that's bad!  So last weekend my mom came and visited!  She arrived on Thursday night and left on Sunday night.  On Thursday I made my way to the airport to pick her up and then we headed to Friedrichstraße and had dinner before heading to my apartment.  She stayed with me this weekend and slept in my bed and I slept on the sofa couch in my room.  Once we got back to my apartment she met my host parents and then we sat around chatting a bit while watching the BAMBI awards that were actually taking place in Berlin that night!

The next day we got up bright and early and headed to my practicum.  My mom said she had a great time there and the kids really seemed to like her too!  We stayed there for a few hours and then headed on a "little" tour of part of Berlin! I honestly don't even remember everything that we saw, but it was a pretty long walk!  We saw the Brandenburger Tor, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the Monument to the Roma and Sinti, the Reichstag, Potsdamer Platz, the Gendarmenmarkt, and so on!  We actually ended early from what I had planned because we were so tired!  We went out to dinner and then came home so I could do some homework and she hung out with my host family (all three children were over on Friday night).

On Saturday we got up early-ish and did another "little" tour.  We saw an art market and went around Museum Island and we also saw the Humboldt University and the monument to the book burning and so on and so forth!  We also went to the Nikolaiviertel (the oldest part of Berlin) and went to a museum inside of the church.  We were going to go to a movie this night, but we were both tired enough that we didn't feel like we needed to.  We did go to a huge bookstore though!

On Sunday we didn't do too much, since we had done a lot of the stuff on our list already!  We did head to the impressive Hauptbahnhof and we went to the Ku'damm and saw the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtnis Kirche!  Then we headed back to my apartment, hung out for a little while, and then headed to the airport!  I had to go to another play that night, so I dropped her off where she got on a bus.

It was a really great weekend, and it was silmiltaneously perfect timing and bad timing.  It was perfect timing because I actually didn't have any homework that was due on Monday or Tuesday, which meant I didn't have to spend much time doing homework at all.  However, it was also bad timing because it was pretty chilly and cloudy (I don't think we saw the sun at all) and it was the weekend before the Christmas markets open, which is one of my favorite things to do!  But we still had a great time and I'm really glad she got to come see me!

I'll post an update in the next day or two on classes and this past week!

Look, a Beth in Berlin!

Cute little boy iceskating near Potsdamer Platz with his penguin helper!

This was our view of the Fernsehturm all weekend