Hello from Berlin!

I'm in Berlin with a colleague and 27 students. We have been very busy our first few days seeing all sorts of interesting things ... like the Brandenburg Gate and the Olympic Stadium, as you'll see in the attached group photos. We saw the stadium and Corb's Unite Berlin this afternoon after spending the first half of the day at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. We had a great private tour of the Reichstag on Sunday, including Norman Foster's dome. We've also already explored the main boulevard, Unter den Linden, and the Museum Island, including Schinkel's Altes Museum and the amazing treasures of the Pergamom Museum. We went up in the TV tower yesterday for panoramic views of the city. Tomorrow we are off to explore the newly redeveloped Potsdamer Platz and Eisemann's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. We are also going to see the film Metropolis tomorrow night in the Babylon Theatre with live piano.