Working hard or hardly working

Since I've begun my internship, my day-to-day activities at work have been a learning experience that I am grateful for. While I'm disappointed I don't have a career at the age of 25, I feel as if I might be done floundering soon and that this will be one of the many life changing events that gets me where I'll end up (and I plan to end up somewhere good).

My co-workers make life here delightful outside of work too. I'm exactly halfway through my internship and so far:

I've stood in the rain all day on a Saturday filming a marathon,

I've celebrated the 20 year anniversary of German Reunification,

I toured Wilheim-Kaiser Kirsche and saw breathtaking mosaics,

gone to a terrific local movie theater for a regular event called "Cine-man" where you watch manly films and they hand you a beer as you walk in the door (on a side note, in Germany they also do this magical thing where they turn the lights on between the previews and the movie in case you'd like to buy some ice cream from a girl with a box around her neck like at a ballpark),

I've been to Potsdam to take photos of "Sans, Souci,"

I've visited my favorite person in the world in London for a weekend (here we are at the Prime Meridian),

and I've even signed up to run a 7.5 km run this Saturday (as if I'm fit enough to do it or something). Reference: http://www.festival-of-lights.de/veranstaltungen/lightrun/

But this last snip-bit gets me to the Festival of Lights.

I intend to take and upload a lot more photos soon so you can fully understand the magic, but this is a portion of October when they light the buildings and trees in Mitte like a fairytale with blues and reds and greens and rope lights and designs (and the occasional alcohol advertisement). It's so nice considering how little daylight I suddenly have access to. It used to be bright when I woke up at 6:45 - the sun and I were on the same schedule - but now she doesn't wake up until I walk out the door at 8 and she goes down at 6/6:30, right after my walk home from work. At work I have a big window that I'm grateful for, but it's not the same as getting to wander the streets in natural light. If I can't have the daylight I'll settle for enchanting fake light. Maybe even join a mob and run through it.

Now I'm off to see Museum The Kennedy's :) Hope it's bright where you are.