Berlin-Potsdam

 
 
 
 

To prepare for my EVS-European Volunteer Service, I had to participate in a Predeparture-Training. As Switzerland doesn’t send that much volunteers within the EU-Youth in Action-Programme I could/had to go to a small village somewhere in northern Germany for this training. The training took place from Monday to Wednesday, so I decided to profit of this to spend the weekend in Berlin. I knew that my friend Christiane, a german girl, who was doing her EVS in Nishnij Novgorod, during my exchange semester, had started studying in Potsdam. So I took a night train from Basel to Berlin on Fridays evening and met Christiane early in the morning at the railway station in Potsdam. I had imagined Potsdam really different, more like a big city, not that small and cosy as it is in reality. Even the Castel of “Sansouci” is although very beautiful, pretty small. The next day we went to Berlin, where we were walking trough streets and squares, visiting all the famous and less famous places. It was COLD, too cold to walk around in Berlin, but still, I found Berlin such an amazing city, I wanted to see everything, couldn’t get enough. So poor Christiane had to come with me to the Wall, to monuments and to Kreuzberg, walking and freezing until almost midnight…
Still I think it was worth it…Of course you can never see a city like Berlin in only one day, but I got a good impression and I am sure we spent a great day, both of us :)