Brandenburg Gate, The Sun and Internationalism
A sunny, beautiful day at the Tiegarten with new friends from the group of international students at UdK. Many, many countries represented here, around 14 or 15 I would say…Spain, France, Poland, England, USA, Canada, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Israel, Denmark, Belgium, Russia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan and a few others. Lovely people!
I have rubbed shoulders with tall Dutch girls and bought second-hand running shoes with Nika, a Russian painter with an ambitious drive. There is Till, “the local German,” who took me to a gallery opening of a Parisian photographer. There they served crepe’s, beer, wine and played experimental music.
There are Spaniards, a Pole, a Parisian named Dorothee who is an illustrator and calls me “Naton!” Pronounced, “Nah-ton!”