"To travel and see all other cultures is to see and live twice as much" - Me For the next few entries I want to recount my Study abroad adventures through pictures and words. Since I was too busy for blogging and actually did not know much about it until recently I will title the entries with the round about date of what transpired.
This was a huge step in my academic career and life in general. I saw different societies and ultimately grew as a person.
Rolf Backmann M.S. in Arch. and Urban Design, Columbia University Dipl.-Ing.Architekt, Technische Universität Berlin
On our flight to Germany we flew Lufthansa, they are known as a reliable airline but like any airline things happen.
We land in Frankfurt, Germany and we find that our flight to Berlin has been canceled. So a friend and I go to the service counter and eventually get everyone to switch their tickets to a later flight. No Problem.
Finally we land in Berlin, gather our luggage and head towards the exit. Ahead of us we see a tall thin man in a long black coat, appropriate for the frigid weather of Berlin at this time. "You're late," the man states with his German accent and a smug smirk on his face. As we were answering, "the flight was canceled", he had already whirled around, his coat flowing around him like a cape, and was off! We would soon discover that this was "Rolf Speed"
Rolf Speed: Verb
So as we all speed walked after him, in order not to get lost in a new city in a new country on a new continent, we dragged our luggage along to reach our bus. On our way to our destination we were given a tour of various sites along the route.
And then we arrive at our apartments Adalbertstrasse 64 and then our architecture studios farther down town.