Berlin

I got home from Berlin at about 8:30 yesterday evening, very very tired but having had a brilliant time.
I had to be up bright and early on Friday to be at school for 7:30, and from there we travelled to Luton and flew to Berlin Schonefeld with EasyJet. I get on really well with my German group so it was lovely to be going with them. We also went with the Upper Sixth, but there are only 3 of them and they knew none of us so were just as scared about that as we were! They were all lovely though, and everyone got on brilliantly, so that was good.
We visited tons of Christmas Markets; they are absolutely amazing. The atmosphere is just so friendly, and I think really special as well. Lots of nice food and nick-nack stands to look at too! We also went shopping in the actual shops - KaDeWe, largest department store in Europe, and many of thehundreds of H & Ms which seem to be in Berlin.
As well as shopping we played tourist. We visited the Reichstag, which was incredible - it's really high and there's no roof so you look out onto the sky. We also visited the Fernsehturn, or TV tower, which has a revolving restaurant in it. That was very fun!
We saw quite a few remnants of the Wall, which was more sombre, and also went to the Holocaust Memorial and a Jewish Museum. We actually found the museum quite interesting, and we didn't nearly finish all of it - I think we faffed around too much, thinking it would be boring, but there were enough hands on activities to make it interesting and informative.
My feet ached sooo much, we walked everywhere! We also took the U-Bahn quite often, which is really funny because the German people just stare at you the whole time. They didn't even look away when we looked back, it was very disconcerting!
Oh, the other very amusing part of the trip was our cinema visit - they were determined that we would go and see a film in German. So we decided to go and see Narnia, got there, watched the adverts, got to the trailers and they were all in English. Hmm. Got to the film, by which time we were all slightly hopeful that it might just be in English after all, and hooray! It was! The film was really good, I loved it. Obviously, knowing the book very well, there were some parts I wish they'd kept which they didn't, and some parts they made up which I found slightly bizarre, but on the whole it was just fantastic. I would definitely recommend it.
Our teachers were mortified though. They asked at the end of the film how come it hadn't been in German, and the attendant said, "Oh, all our films are in English at this cinema!" That I found just hilarious.
I'm actually very pleased because I'm not too tired, and I don't have any outstanding work to do. I had a brilliant time, and anyone who's considering going to Berlin, you definitely should! And visit a Weihnachtsmarkt!!