Recollections- day 1

Thursday January 17th: Arrived in Berlin around 8am, after little to no sleep for all of us on the flight. The days activites geared towards staying awake- a lot of walking around Berlin after dropping our bags off at the hostel, with two or three café stops to warm up and consume vast quantities of coffee. An attempt to get a sense for the city, passing many of the locations we were to visit over the next two weeks. Despite a general fogginess, both meteorologically and mentally, I think many of us got a strong and accurate first impression of Berlin's scattered, stretched, de-centralised disposition. This was confirmed later that evening, after dinner with composer and Oberlin alum Mark Barden, when he took us on a more extensive walking tour of Kreuzberg.

 Three videos below, two taken during the flight, one upon landing.

Location:Hallesche Straße,Berlin,Germany