Today was surely adventurous and had two main parts: We went to the Berlin Film Schule, and we went to see the Mozart comic opera “Die Zauberflöte”. When I think about how much stuff it felt like we did today, it sounds like an insult to say we only did two things, even after clarifying that those were the two main plot points today. I’ll explain… We woke up this morning pretty early; it couldn't have been past

8:00 am. Eating breakfast was actually at a comfortable tempo. When things started to pickup in pace however, there was no turning back. You see, we had scheduled a tour at the university. We had to get to the U-bahn quickly in order to get to said tour in the appropriate time. We had to get there so quickly that we ran most of the way there! That’s right ladies and gentlemen. This morning for the first time ever, we ran through the streets of Berlin. Exciting? You Bet! We made it too. With 4 minutes to spare. When took the underground U-bahn that connected to another, more important U-bahn, overhead. It took us right to our destination. Fast-forward a little and we’re in front of the Berlin Schule Babelsburg. The tour guide was a very pretty, short woman, a little stout; she had a light brown hair color and a very soft, motherly face. She had a very nice German accent; it had lots of German character, but without the muddy, sloppiness, that someone gets by not being corrected often as a child. Think, pronouncing the “ing” in “Speaking” . She took us all over the set, costume design, and set design sections of the school. We found out that a lot of very interesting movies that we have in the USA, were shot right there in Berlin. Films like Inglorious Bastards, Ghost Writer and V for Vendetta were all shot on that campus. Also if you’re wondering, this school is big…. I mean BIG, much bigger than our UNCSA campus. The set building that we were in was maybe four times as large as ours at the school… And there were multiple... After the tour we went into a restaurant called “The Tasty” for some lunch. There was both lunch food and breakfast food there so we mixed up a little and on our table one could find both. We then went into the production building of the school. Talk about high tech!  There were so many technical things and design specific mechanisms inside; any computer loving person would have fainted. There was a lot of sound design machinery within too. It was a very well rounded technical university. At the end we got a chance to meet a student of the school, ask him some questions that were on our minds and again test our German speaking skills with the natives. I would say we passed with flying colors… or words or whatever… After the tour we left, bound back to the city. That evening we saw the new Production of the Zauberflöte at the comic Opera house. It was such a pleasure and afterwards we even got the opportunity to meet the singers! Talk about a full day.