Student trip to Berlin

I’m back after having been away for a while. I have just returned from 4 days in Berlin as a student trip with my classmates. It has been nice to get a break from school to get some new experiences and make new memories with my classmates. We had our math teacher and physics teacher with us too keep an eye on us. Since it was a student trip and my teachers think that math and physics are not subjects but see it more as a lifestyle, they had made a program of specific sightseeing places in Berlin that would learn us about physics and math. And with a lot of museums that would enlighten our history horizon also. Not that I disagree that math and physics are a lifelong learning progress that should be embraced at any opportunity, but I would like to have had a little more spare time to go shopping and going to the pubs in the evening.

It was actually my third time in Berlin. I have previously visited the capital of Germany with my boarding school two years ago and later that summer, again with a girl from my boarding school and her parents.

For that reason, I had already visited some of the museums like Science Centre Spektrum, Deutsches Teknische Museum, that we also visited during this student trip. Luckily I did see some new places like Berliner unterwelt, Olympia stadion and Zeiss-Grossplanetarium. We also visited Deutsches Elektron-Synchrotron DESY the biggest German research centre operating particle accelerators which was possible only because we came from a physics/math class all with interest in the subject which was pretty cool.

We got up early every morning ready to face the frantic city life. Our teachers had prepared us for long days with a dense programme for the day, which we were supposed to follow by strolling from the eastside of berlin to the Westside 4 times in a day by feet. And we did. Except we didn’t quite stroll but more specifically power-walk every street and now and then pass a red light to keep up with the group. If you lost sight of the group because of traffic or other intrusions, you would be at the end of the road literally.

One day in the u-bahn we met a student from the university. He started to talk to us a told us that he was born in Dubai and had moved to Berlin two years ago to go to the University. He thought the people in Berlin where very cold and self-centred and he really had to adapt to being so much alone when he first arrived. I personally did not notice that people where self-centred but I think it is also hard to notice as a tourist. However, I see people in Berlin being much better at expressing themselves through looks and they appear to be very individual in that way. And that was something I found very interesting and really enjoyed.

All in all, it has been a fun trip where I have learned many things about physics, math and history but also made unforgettable memories with my classmates. I am looking forward to my return to Berlin, which I certainly will come back to because we simply did not have enough time to do all that we wanted. There are still many unexplored places to see, good food to eat and not least fantastic clothes to buy.