And time flies on/und die Zeit fliegt weiter

I feel like I´m in some sort of time warp vortex. I can´t believe I have less than 2 weeks left here =(.
Last night S and I hosted a party for her birthday. We made American and German finger food =). It was a low-key but fun night. Some of S´s friends came and she had me invite the other Americans too. Some were still exhausted from the night before so one was four hours late and another missed it entirely due to an accidental nap, lol.

American:
pigs in a blanket
mini peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
stuffed dates

German:
Käseigel (cheese hedgehog)-- half a melon with toothpicks of gouda+melon or gouda+grape stuck into it, and a face of raisins and a red gummy bear to make it look like a hedgehog
Senfgurke (mustard pickle)--some kind of pickled veggie, soft, a bit sour and sort of translucent
Lachsschnecken (salmon snails)--smoked salmon with herbs and some sort of cream spread rolled up in a type of pancake to be snaillike
Russisch Brot (a snack from the DDR...can´t really describe the taste, just mildly sweet brown letter and number shaped crunchy things...)
Kräcker mit Frischkäse (crackers with fresh cheese)--some w an herb-cheese spread, some with a "peppasweet" cheese spread

Today was my first truly upsetting incident of the trip. A couple drunk men were harrassing us as we were getting a tour of memorial sites for the Holocaust, including a former Jewish cemetary. We had to call the police, who came too late. It was awful.

On the plus side, I got to see Rosenstraße, which is one of the places I was most looking forward to going to in Berlin. That is one of the few cases of open protest during the Holocaust. The Nazis had rounded up about 1800 Jewish men who were married to Gentiles and locked them in a building on Rosenstraße until they could be transported to a concentration camp. However, the women somehow found out where their husbands were being held, and they and other concerned people gathered outside on the street and refused to leave. There were so many of them, and being mostly "Aryan" women there was nothing the Nazis could do to them. The protesting went on for a week. Realizing that to follow through with their plans would be, as someone in our group said, "a PR disaster," the men were finally released, and most ultimately survived the Third Reich.

After that we went to a restaurant where most of the people I was with ordered "naan pizza". I had a Radler (beer+lemonade) and the panini S made me this morning, mmm! Then we walked until we found a café for some much needed "coffee to go" (comes in such tiny cups here!). Nick and Kael thought of going to a nearby fleamarket at the exact same time, so we headed over there. It was labyrinthine! Such an awesome assortment of stands. I don´t even feel like we spent that long there, and I found some great items, such as a 0,50€ (ie fifty cent) shirt that fits me beauuuutifully, a 6€ architectural silver ring, and big butterfly earrings made out of sponges. (sounds weird...looks surprisingly delicately pretty!).

Okay, just had a long break where I watched the Germany vs. Australia game (4-0, woot!), spoke to my dear parents on the phone, made and ate Buchstaben Suppe (alphabet soup) and started upoading some photos of the East Side Gallery on facebook. Time to get ready for school tomorrow/bed.

Gute Nacht! =)