{"id":4419,"date":"2015-04-29T20:34:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T20:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/?p=4419"},"modified":"2015-04-29T20:36:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T20:36:38","slug":"traveling-around-berlin-germany-the-life-of-an-international-school-teacher-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/traveling-around-berlin-germany-the-life-of-an-international-school-teacher-is-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling Around: Berlin, Germany (The life of an international school teacher is good!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Traveling Around:\u00a0Berlin,\u00a0Germany<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Can you relate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Tasting your first currywurst and the smell of it following you everywhere
\n\u2022 Getting the feeling that art is everywhere around you
\n\u2022 Being enchanted by design of the old metro (U-Bahn) smelling like hardware store
\n\u2022 Wanting to go up the big tower, but never getting around to doing so. When the weather was perfect to go up, you find yourself too tired or too far away to go.
\n\u2022 Hoping that it was going to be more spring-like, but then finding out it wasn\u2019t that spring-like just yet. Seems like spring is coming later and later nowadays…
\n\u2022 Seeing quite impressive building murals around the city. Who does these art installations anyway? So cool!
\n\u2022 Finding so many alternative people, restaurants, etc. all around the city. People had even spray painted \u201cVegan revolution\u201d on the walls.
\n\u2022 Being shocked to be bombarded with hail on multiple days. It looked like it was snowing with all this hail everywhere!
\n\u2022 Running into a restaurant called \u201cWhite Trash Fast Food\u201d and then hearing that it is actually a posh, good-tasting restaurant.
\n\u2022 Forgetting that Berlin actually has many canal rivers running around the city, ala Amsterdam.
\n\u2022 Loving the lovely walks through the beautiful city parks, on nice, pretty warm sunny days.
\n\u2022 Realizing the size of the city (9 times bigger than Paris) by not being able to walk around the city center and seeing everything in 5 days.
\n\u2022 Staying at a hotel for three nights in what was probably the noisiest room. The hotel also had a HUGE number of little children running around, a bit chaotic.
\n\u2022 Taking advantage of the cheap public transport from the city airport to the city center. Other cities can learn from Berlin and take a note of this! No one wants their way from the airport to the city center to be too expensive or too long of a journey.
\n\u2022 Being open-mouthed in awe to find an enormous section of canned hotdogs in one of the aisles. Who needs that many kinds of canned hotdogs?
\n\u2022 Staying at a very nice hotel for only one night, too expensive to stay more nights. The view from the breakfast room was awesome!
\n\u2022 Buying super expensive bottled water at the Tegel airport. Airport shouldn\u2019t have the option to sell bottled water at such a high price. It was around four EUROS!<\/p>\n

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Currently we have 7<\/b>\u00a0international schools listed in Berlin, Germany\u00a0on\u00a0International School Community<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Berlin Brandenburg International School<\/a> (11 comments)
\n\u2022\u00a0Berlin British School<\/a> (31 comments)
\n\u2022 Berlin International School<\/a> (12 comments)
\n\u2022\u00a0Galileo Gymnasium (Germany)<\/a> (11 comments)
\n\u2022\u00a0John F. Kennedy School Berlin<\/a> (11 comments)
\n\u2022\u00a0Nelson Mandela School<\/a>
\n\u2022\u00a0Phorms Berlin Mitte<\/a><\/p>\n

If you are on a trip\u00a0right now, away from your host country, write to us at\u00a0admin@internationalschoolcommunity.com<\/a>\u00a0with your “Can you relate?” traveling experiences.\u00a0 Tell us where you are traveling in the world, what you are seeing and how you are coping with any culture shock.\u00a0 Once your Traveling Around\u00a0experience\u00a0is posted\u00a0on our blog, International School Community will give you\u00a06 free months of premium membership!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Traveling Around:\u00a0Berlin,\u00a0Germany Can you relate? \u2022 Tasting your first currywurst and the smell of it following you everywhere \u2022 Getting the feeling that art is everywhere around you \u2022 Being enchanted by design of the old metro (U-Bahn) smelling like hardware store \u2022 Wanting to go up the big tower, but never getting around to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50],"tags":[626,1861,621,457,42,1862,30,32,2099,1286,58,1042,2100,2101,152,2097,287,603,2098,1214],"class_list":["post-4419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traveling-around","tag-berlin-brandenburg-international-school","tag-berlin-british-school","tag-berlin-international-school","tag-comments-and-information","tag-expat-life","tag-galileo-gymnasium-germany","tag-international-school-community","tag-international-schools","tag-international-schools-in-berlin","tag-international-teacher-life","tag-international-teachers","tag-john-f-kennedy-school-berlin","tag-nelson-mandela-school","tag-phorms-berlin-mitte","tag-teachers","tag-teaching-in-berlin","tag-traveling","tag-traveling-around-2","tag-traveling-around-berlin","tag-traveling-experiences"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC_0094.jpg?fit=1280%2C899&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2flVT-19h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4995,"url":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/comparing-schools-comments-working-germany\/","url_meta":{"origin":4419,"position":0},"title":"Comparing the Schools and Comments: Working in Germany","author":"ISCommunity","date":"December 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Around the world, there are cities that have more than one international school. 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