Yesterday I went to Berlin, today I went to Denmark. I’ll begin with Berlin
Who would of thought I’d ever make it to see Berlin. We woke up at 6 and jumped on a train, a 3 hour train ride through the countryside of Germany. I never would have thought Germany would be so pretty. It looked like a fairy tale. I felt like I was in Hansel and Gretel or Harry Potter. There were tree lined railroad tracks that would suddenly open into wide lush green meadows. There were windmills in the distance and tall wispy grass blowing in the breeze. It was so pretty….3 hours pretty.
Once we got to Berlin we got out of the train station and there was part of the Berlin wall. We spent some time there and then walked down towards the Brandenburg gate. I spelled that wrong but you know. We could see it in the distance which is the only way we knew where to go. On the way we came across this park full of buddy bears. Buddy bears are hand painted bears from every country in the world holding hands. Its kinda like the bulls in Chicago only they mean something profound. We spent a good while there taking pictures and whatnot, and like a true American, I took a picture with the America bear holding my starbucks cup. We finally found a starbucks and it was amazing. OH and then we tumbled and stuff in the grass. We gathered a small crowd and it was fun. We got some cool action shots of me doing a toe-touch and me and jeff doing side by side back handsprings. Its pretty cool.
So after that we continued on our journey. Right before the gate was this massive holocaust memorial. It was rows and rows of rectangular blocks of different heights. The ground was rolly so it made it look pretty cool. We ran around in there for a while. P.S. the whole city seems to be a memorial. Berlin does not want to forget what has happened in the past. There is a line through the whole town that shows where the wall was. I learned that the wall wasn’t a single wall. It was 2 walls with a narrow alley in between and it wasn’t straight through the city. It was all over. AND I didn’t realize it went up in the 60’s. I figured it was more around the war. Who would have thought something almost 50 years ago would be so profound. I had to keep reminding myself this was all the recent past.
After that we went to the big gateway and took lots of pictures……and bought souvenirs. Then we walked across the street to the big rystock or something. its essentially the capitol building. Then we walked through some other memorials, ran into some of the tour busses from the ship and kim shaunacy and Stacey jumped on and went to a concentration camp. The rest of us just walked around some more and headed home.
Berlin was definitely an amazing city. I wanted a few more days to really see and experience everything. I want to go back. The end
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Today we were back in Aarhus, Denmark. This city has the most gorgeous people on the planet. It never lets me down. The entire group went to LegoLand for janelles birthday except me shaunacy, mashawn, and the new girl andrea. Mash just slept, me and shaunacy snuck off the ship(we technically had ipm) and I have no idea what the new girl did. She’s dating like 5 people on the ship including a passenger. I don’t have time for her. Anyways, me and shananc went looking for a birthday present for Janelle but EVERY store was closed cause its Sunday. Damn danes. But they’re still pretty so I forgave them. We ended up just walking around town and came across a stairway that seemed to head to a gorgeous park. We get to the top and it turns out to be a cemetery. But this ain’t your American cemetery. It looked like the botanical gardens. Aspens, birch, pines, magnolia trees, flowers, shrubs, large green lawns. It was stunning. And the tombstones aren’t in row and row. They are all grouped by family in little mini gardens. Each family planted and decorated their plot themselves. Some had statues, artwork, little benches. It was so interesting. I also learned that they are able to do this because they burry each member on top of the next to save space. But some plots were just the gravestone or no more than 4 feet long. Others looked like the king of denmark was buried there. Needless to say it was really neat to see and learn about other customs. I guess this little cruise ship job is showin me a lot more than how to make shitty dancing look good. Haha.
p.s. I’m very sorry for the short choppy sentences. I feel like a 3rd grader typing this out but my mind goes too fast to make full sentences. My bad
Lesson of the day: the old jewish gay men from new york are disgusting on this ship. Just cause I’m a dancer who’s gay doesn’t mean I like to go to gay cinemas or backrooms or sex clubs, NOR does that mean that I want to talk about my sexuality with some 60 year old fat queen. And also I will not be doing highkicks on command so you can stop asking for that as well, especially if you leave our shows half way through. Got it missy. Stupid gays, times have changed. Not everybody is a fag. Oh and one more thing. Don’t think I like musicals and liza just cause I dance. I happen to be very well versed in the acadamia world so don’t act so surprised when I correct you on your historical knowledge….asshole. fucking eat a carrot and do a crunch or two.
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