Joe, at home, Germany

CookieprincesS
caedesangelus@hotmail.de

Posted Oct 24, 2011, 8:52 pm
Joe is very nervous.
Here you see his friends and him.
Together they celebrate a party.
CookieprincesS
caedesangelus@hotmail.de

Posted Oct 24, 2011, 8:58 pm
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CookieprincesS
caedesangelus@hotmail.de

Posted Oct 25, 2011, 7:58 pm
Today I went with my mom to the post office.
We went out to the door.
Here I stand in front of our apartment door.
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Then down the stairs.
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And then I crawled into the enveloping.
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Now I'm on the way to my first host Stu1981
Stu1981


Posted Oct 26, 2011, 11:16 am
Hey there!

Just arrived in Bavaria at my new host  :)
With me, another TV has arrived, his name is Knut. The weather is not very good, it is raining  :( Thats why we probably not going out to take pictures today. I hope, tomorrow it will be dry at least  :)

Now my host is going to show me the accomodation for the next days. I'll message again later this day  :)
Stu1981


Posted Oct 26, 2011, 11:46 am
Hi again, mommy!

Stu1981 just showed me a little of my home for the next days. I've found some new friends already  :)

There is even one animal named "Remy". He looks almost like me, much bigger. I think, he's a rat, but he is o.k. I will have a great time here with my new friends and my host  :)
Stu1981


Posted Oct 27, 2011, 1:43 pm
Hi there!

So this is my first "full day" at my new host. The weather is not good again, but it's not raining. We will go outside to make some pictures later today. Until then, I am reading some books about Hamburg, my next destination. Can't wait to see St. Pauli and the rest of the city!!  :)
Stu1981


Posted Oct 27, 2011, 3:55 pm
Today we went out in the surroundings of my host's home. There are many fields with several vegetables and cereals plantet on. I found a field full with fresh, tasty corn and couldn't resist to nibble a bit :)

On our way back to the car I've noticed some small holes in the earth. My host told me, field-mice digged them to live in there. I had to take a closer look at it and i think, my first life mission is accomplished right now  :)
Stu1981


Posted Oct 30, 2011, 6:54 am
Hey there!

We arrived in Hamburg last night and are going to take the first pictures tomorrow  :)
Stu1981


Posted Oct 30, 2011, 3:44 pm
Hi there!
Today I've been to the city with my host. He took me along the Reeperbahn and we visited the harbour, so my second life mission is accomplished :)

I've also seen a criminal theatre there. They perform a play called "The Mousetrap"  :o
Stu1981


Posted Nov 6, 2011, 8:47 am
Hello there!

On friday my host took me and the other TVs to a typical old sailors pub in Hamburg, called "Zum Silbersack". This pub opened in 1950 and the founder, Erna Thomsen, sometimes is still there to serve the guests. She is over 80 years old and in St. Pauli everyone only knows her as "Tante Erna". The interior is most original from the first years of the bar and on the walls there are a lot of paintings of the harbor from the 1920-1930's.

We met some friends of my host and I have to say, we had a lot of fun there :)
MA_17


Posted Nov 30, 2011, 10:41 pm
Hello Mom,

just wanted to let you know that I arrived safe at my next stop. Now I have to wait for the other tvs to help me out of the envelope. They'll arrive on Saturday. :)

Yours, Joe
MA_17


Posted Dec 4, 2011, 7:17 pm
Finally I found some time to add the pictures of my arrival.
I nibbled myself out of the envelop. The other tvs Beate, Tapsi and Chrissy were already waiting for me. I was surprised about Chrissy. She looks like me!!! I'm sure, she's my twin!

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We are planning a sightseeing-tour tomorrow if it is not raining! Mommy, cross your fingers for me!

Love, Joe.
MA_17


Posted Dec 5, 2011, 9:45 pm
Hello Mom,

today we wanted to do a big sightseeing tour, but it was raining until noon and started again after a short time. So it was a short day for me outside.

First we went to the Oberbaum Bridge. From here we had a fantastic view to the East Harbour section of the river Spree. On the left side you can see the buildings of Mediaspree, like Universal Music Headquarters (Germany), MTV Central Europe and TV Dockyard. On the right side you can see the Treptowers and the TwinTowers. And in the middle of the river Spree you can see Molecule Men. These thirty meters high metal sculpture was designed and executed by the American sculptor Jonathan Borofsky. Symbolically, they represent the intersection of the then three districts Treptow, Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain.
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We walked along the East Side Gallery. It is the longest open air gallery in the world. The art mile is located along the banks of the river Spree in Friedrichshain. It is 1316 meters long and it is also the longest segment of the Berlin Wall that is still standing. Right after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the East Side Gallery was painted by 118 artists from 21 different countries. Using various artistic means, the artists commented on the political events that took place in 1989 and 1990 in over 100 works of art found on the eastern side of the wall.
In the course of the years, many of the images became greatly weathered and, in 2009, forty of these works of art were restored.
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Our last stop was the o2 World. It was opened in September 2008, a modern multi-function arena setting new standards for Berlin. Up to 17,000 people can attend the concerts – then the stands can be converted to a sporting arena within a few hours after they leave.
The o2 World is particularly suited to large and spectacular shows, such as “Walking with Dinosaurs”, which features life-size dinosaur replicas. Concerts are also provided for by the ultramodern technology and video projections. The arena is also the home of the national league basketball club ALBA Berlin and the ice hockey team Eisbären Berlin.
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By the way. It is cold in Berlin, but it is still not snowing!

Love, Joe
MA_17


Posted Dec 6, 2011, 11:15 pm
Hello Mommy,

today we did a short stopover at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial. It is a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. It consists of a 19,000 square metres site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38 m long, 0.95 m wide and vary in height from 0.2 to 4.8 m.
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When we came home in the evening there was an envelope waiting for us.
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Chrissy and I took the scissor to open it. We were afraid of cutting somebody or something inside. But nothing happened... :rolleyes:
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Me and Chrissy crawled into the envelope. Tapsi and Beate had to help us out of it.
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When we came out of the envelope we had a new tv in our arms. His name is Greeny delMonte. He's a nice guy.
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MA_17


Posted Dec 8, 2011, 11:19 pm
Hello Mum,

today we found a colorful envelope at hour hosts home.
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We opened it carefully and saw something red inside. We were a little bit afraid.
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It was Crawfish in the envelope. She came the long way from the US. And she had something sweet to eat for us.
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Yours,
Joe
MA_17


Posted Dec 10, 2011, 11:11 am
Hey Mommy,

today I decided to do a short walk through the city. The weather isn't that good.
I went to the Brandenburg Gate. It is one of the most well-known landmarks of Berlin and Germany.
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From there I walk to the Museum Island. I just stopped in front of the "Altes Museum" (old museum).
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Next to the museums you can find the Berlin Cathedral.
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Last but not least the highlight of my tour. The television tower next to Alexanderplace. It was constructed between 1965 and 1969 and with its height of 368 meters, it is the tallest structure in Germany. There is a visitor platform and a revolving restaurant in the middle of the sphere. The tower is part of the World Federation of Great Towers (WFGT).
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I hope the weather will be better soon!

Yours,
Joe
MA_17


Posted Dec 13, 2011, 12:08 am
Hello Mummy,

today we had to say goodbye to Beate, Chrissy and Tapsi.
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We went to Halle today. It is the largest city in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is also called Halle an der Saale (literally Halle on the Saale river, and in some historic references simply Saale after the river) in order to distinguish it from the town of Halle in North Rhine-Westphalia. The current official name of the city is Halle (Saale). The University of Halle was founded here in 1694. The famous Baroque composer George Friderich Handel was born in Halle in 1685.

This is the Technical Hallors and Saline Museum. It was founded in the buildings of the former Royal Prussian Saline, Halle upon Saale in 1967. Hallors had been members of a brotherhood of salt producers .
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Here you can see me in front of the main radio studio of MDR .
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This is the "Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen" (Market Church of Our Dear Lady), also known as St. Mary's Church and Market Church. It was built between 1529 and 1554. Its four towers, together with the Red Tower of the city hall, make Halle the city of five towers. In German, its official name is shortened to Liebfrauenkirche and it is also referred to as Marienkirche and Marktkirche. It is the church where George Frideric Handel was baptized and received his first organ lessons, where Johann Sebastian Bach inspected the new organ, and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was an organist.
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I also went to a the Christmas market. It smelled sweet everywhere and I finally got the feeling of Christmas.
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In the evening we met some lovely animals!
A turtle named Ines, a hamster without a name and 5 lovely budgies.
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I'm off to bed now.

Yours
Joe
MA_17


Posted Dec 13, 2011, 4:08 pm
Hey Mom,

today is not a good day. It is stormy and rainy outside! I don't like it. But I didn't stay inside. Greeny, Crawfish and I drove through small villages, forests and fields by car to Kemberg. It is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The town lies on the north edge of the Dübener Heide Nature Park.
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When we arrived in Kemberg it stopped raining for a short time, so I could take a picture outside the car. The town's most striking sight is the soaring Church of Our Lady ( "Unser Lieben Frauen" ) which can be seen far away over the Elbaue (natural polder). It is a hall church with a nave and two aisles dating from the 15th century (or so it is believed) with an 86-m-tall tower built in the 19th century.
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Hopefully it is not raining tomorrow!

Yours,
Joe
MA_17


Posted Dec 15, 2011, 7:24 pm
Hello Mommy,

today we went to Oranienbaum and visited the area around the castle. At the moment the castle is closed because of winter time and we couldn't go inside. But we saw the castle from outside and went to its gardens. The Gardens had its origin in the 17th century, when the marriage of Leopold's great-grandfather Prince John George II of Anhalt-Dessau to the Dutch princess Henriette Catharina, in 1659 brought a team of engineers and architects from the Low Countries to lay out the town, the palace and a Baroque garden in the former settlement of Nischwitz, which was renamed Oranienbaum in 1673. The Dutch influence remained prevalent in the Principality of Anhalt-Dessau for many decades.
Oranienbaum Palace was finished in 1683 as the summer residence of Henriette Catharina, where she retired after the death of her husband in 1693. From 1780 on Duke Leopold III had the palace and the park rebuilt in a Chinese style with several arch bridges, a tea house and a pagoda. In 1811, the orangery was built, with 175 m (574 ft) in length one of the largest in Europe, which still serves to protect a wide collection of citrus plants. It was too cold to go to the orangery!
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, inspected the restoration works on March 3, 2004.

This is the castle from the front (street view):
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The castle from the backside (garden view):
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The garden. I heard there are lots of palm trees in summer!
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We walked to the Chinese pagoda...
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Below the pagoda:
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The beautiful Chinese pagoda:
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Love,
Joe
MA_17


Posted Dec 15, 2011, 11:03 pm
Hey Mum,

today I visited the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm again. But today I went to Wörlitz. The central Wörlitzer Park lies adjacent to the small town of Wörlitz at an anabranch of the Elbe river. It was laid out between 1769 and 1773 as one of the first English gardens on the continent. According to the ideals of Duke Leopold III the park would also serve as an educational institution in architecture, gardening and agriculture, therefore large parts were open to the public from the beginning. Most buildings were designed by Erdmannsdorff, while the gardens were laid out by Johann Friedrich Eyserbeck. The gardens are protected from floods of the Elbe river in the north by a dam which is also a belt-walk offering numerous views along the park's sight lines.
Wörlitz Palace finished in 1773, residence of Duke Leopold and his wife Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt, was the first Neoclassical building in present-day Germany. The palace and its interior with valuable cabinets from the studio of Abraham and David Roentgen as well as a large collection of Wedgwood porcelain were publicly accessible. Louise had her private home in the adjacent Graues Haus (Grey House). At the eastern rim of the palace's garden stands the Wörlitz Synagogue built in 1790 as a rotunda modelled after the ancient "Temple of Vesta in Tivoli, Italy. The Neo-Gothic St Peter's Church in the west with its 66 m (217 ft) tall steeple was finished in 1809.
The philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the aesthetic of Johann Joachim Winckelmann underlie the design of the park. Wörlitz Lake featured an island atop which was a model of Mount Vesuvius. The duke would stage fireworks that seemed to issue from an erupting volcano to entertain his guests. At the foot of the mountain on the island was a building intended to suggest William Hamilton's home at Pompeii.
Few years ago my host worked as a tour guide in the castle and the park.

Here you can see the castle from the front, the side and the back.
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This is just a small part of the big Wörlitz lake.
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At the end of the lake you can see Mount Vesuvius and Villa Hamilton.
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This is the synagogue.
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This is St Peter's Church. We could see the tower 10 minutes before we arrived to that village!
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Yours,
Joe
MA_17


Posted Dec 17, 2011, 8:22 pm
Hello Mommy,

today we went to Dessau for some shopping. Dessau is situated on a floodplain where the Mulde flows into the Elbe. This causes yearly floods. The town is surrounded by numerous parks and palaces that ranks Dessau as one of the greenest towns in Germany.
We didn't have so much time. First we bought all Christmas presents. Later we had time to see the town hall. And we have been on stage at the Christmas market! Now we're famous!  :)

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Yours,
Joe
MA_17


Posted Dec 19, 2011, 11:02 pm
Hello Mum,

today I show you the difference between two Christmas trees in Berlin.
The first one is a "traffic tree" at Breitscheidplatz. It is made of waste, found in the streets of Berlin.
The second one is hanging in the Sony Center (Potsdamer Platz). It's full of bling bling.  :cyclops:

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Love,
Joe
MA_17


Posted Dec 20, 2011, 7:14 pm
Hey Mom,

today I did a short stop at the Christmas market. It was really nice and extremely cold!

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Yours,
Joe
MA_17


Posted Dec 23, 2011, 11:09 am
It's raining outside...
So all I can do today is having a good breakfast.

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MA_17


Posted Dec 24, 2011, 7:27 pm
MERRY CHRISTMAS MOM

Santa has been here. I've been a good boy so I got a present. We found the presents under the Christmas tree. Everybody got it's own color of ribbon. We unpacked it and whoohooo look what I got... my own scarf!!!
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I hope you've been a good girl, Mom and Santa gives you a nice present.

Love you Mom!

Joe
MA_17


Posted Dec 28, 2011, 10:09 pm
Hello Mom,

today I went to the KaDeWe. It is the most famous department store of Berlin and the largest department store on the European continent, famous above all for its gourmet food department on the sixth floor.
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When I came out of the store it became dark outside. I decided to have a look around if there's anything else interesting. I found a nice building. It's the "Theater des Westens". This private theatre designed by Bernhard Sehring and constructed in 1896 is a well-preserved example of magnificent bourgeois architecture. The form language floats in eclectic quotations, a mixture of styles from the antiquity, and the medieval and renaissance ages.
They have a famous show inside: Dance of the vampires!
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I also met this lovely guy. He's a Buddy Bear. There are so many all over Berlin and there exist also more than 140 country bears with most of the countries of the world. And these bears are travelling around the world. They are tall toyvoyagers!!!
Can you see me on his right shoulder?
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And I found a huge snowman. WOW. Amazing!
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Look, there's a Buddy Bear copy of the Quadriga, which is original placed on the top of the Brandenburg Gate.
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That's all for now.

Yours, Joe
MA_17


Posted Jan 2, 2012, 10:32 pm
HAPPY NEW YEAR


Hello Mom,

I hope you had a lot of fun last night!
At 6 pm we went out for dinner to a restaurant. It wasn't that special so we didn't take pictures.

At 8 pm we went to the Europe Center to watch a big firework!
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Then we walked a little bit around and took a picture of the KaDeWe again. Sadly it was already closed.
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So we went to the Christmas Market. Yeah, it was still opened. It was a little bit cold outside so we went into one of the cabins and enjoyed an original German Glühwein (hot spiced wine). It was really good to get warm.
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At 10 pm we watched again a big firework at Europe Center!
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Then we went to the Railway station to watch the big firework at midnight at Brandenburg gate! We didn't want to go to the party area.
Brandenburg gate is at the laser lights.
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The firework at midnight was amazing! Maybe you saw it on tv! The party area is one of the biggest in Europe.
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I'm still tired. Need more sleep!

Love, Joe
MA_17


Posted Jan 8, 2012, 9:19 pm
Hey Mum,

it is still raining outside  :( I don't like the weather at the moment.
But we had to go out and visit the Museum Island.

This is the Old National Gallery
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My next stop was the Berlin Cathedral
Behind the Cathedral you can see the famous TV tower
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This is Lustgarten behind me. And the blue box is called Humboldtbox.
The horse is not a real one. It's a statue in front of the Old Museum.
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Once again Berlin Cathedral.
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This is the Altes Museum (Old Museum) from the front.
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My last stop was the Reichstag building.
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Then I used the fastest way back "home". I want sun!

Love, Joe
MA_17


Posted Jan 11, 2012, 11:13 pm
Hello Mom,

today we welcomed a new tv. His name is Mr. Furrington. He arrived from England.

I opened the enveloped with a scissor.
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Mr. Furrington gave all of us some sweets. Very tasty!
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And he brought some cards with him and showed us his presents he got from Santa.
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Lovely guy!

Yours, Joe
MA_17


Posted Jan 11, 2012, 11:26 pm
Hello Mom,

today Greeny left us! He'll go back home to Munich.

Crawfish, Mr. Furrington and I cuddled him a lot. It was a little bit sad to say goodbye. Maybe I'll meet him again one day.
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Yours, Joe
MA_17


Posted Jan 16, 2012, 8:19 pm
Hello Mum!

Today it's Sunday and I had to get up at 4.30 am!!! Can you believe it?!?!? My host had to work and so she decided to take us with her.

Here you can see the famous Ku'damm (short form of Kurfürstendamm)! It is one of the most famous avenues in Berlin. The street takes its name from the former Kurfürsten (prince-electors) of Brandenburg. This very broad, long boulevard is full of shops, houses, hotels and restaurants. In particular, many fashion designers have their shops there! The avenue with four lines of plane trees runs for 3.5 km (2.2 mi) through the western Berlin. As you can see there isn't anybody on Sunday before 6 am except ME!
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When my host finished work in the afternoon, the sun was shining and we did some sightseeing.
First we went to the Victory Column. It is a major tourist attraction to the city of Berlin. Berliners, with their fondness for giving nicknames to buildings, call the statue Goldelse, meaning something like "Golden Lizzy".
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This is the Spree. It is the main river of Berlin. It is approximately 400 kilometres (250 mi) in length.
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Here you can see the Haus der Kulturen der Welt ("House of the Cultures of the World" ). It is Germany's national centre for contemporary non-European art. It presents art exhibitions, theater and dance performances, concerts, author readings, films and academic conferences on non-European Visual Art and culture. This building is a gift from the United States, designed in 1957. John F. Kennedy spoke here during his June 1963 visit to West Berlin. To Berliners it is also known as the Schwangere Auster ("pregnant oyster" ).
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This freestanding tower behind me is called "Carillon". It is built face to face with the Reichstag building and next to the house of the Cultures of the World. Most of the tourists don't see it, but I did. It is a large, manually played concert instrument, comprising 68 bells weighing a total of 48 metric tonnes (almost 106,000 lbs.) connected to a keyboard spanning 5½ fully chromatic octaves; the largest bell weighs 7.8 tonnes (almost 17,200 lbs.). It is one of the largest instruments of its kind in Europe and approximately the fourth largest (by number of bells) in the world.
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Behind the Carillon we found some statues made of stone. They look really strange!
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Then I walked to the German Bundestag which is located in the Reichstag Building. I've been here before, do you remember, Mom?
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This is the Soviet War Memorial in the Tiergartenpark. It is one of several war memorials in Berlin erected by the Soviet Union to commemorate its war dead, particularly the 80,000 soldiers of the Soviet Armed Forces who died during the Battle of Berlin in April and May 1945.
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My last stop was the Brandenburg Gate. It is one of the most well-known landmarks of Berlin and Germany.
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It was really cold outside, but I'm happy, I have my scarf.

Love, Joe
MA_17


Posted Jan 18, 2012, 9:03 pm
Hello Mum,

today I left the capital. My next stop is Baden-Wurttemberg.

First I said goodbye to my hosts mice. Ok, just to the young lady called Toffee. All others were still sleeping, like they do every day. Can you see her? She looks a little bit like me: white! But she also got a grey butt and a grey neck.
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Then I also said goodbye to Crawfish and Mr. Furrington.
I'll miss Crawfish a lot. I had so much fun with her. Maybe we all will meet again some day!
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I hope to arrive soon!

Love, Joe
Steppe


Posted Jan 23, 2012, 8:48 am
Hallo guys,
I arrived Bietigheim-Bissingen!
First of all I met my sister Bella, jippie...She stays a longer at time at my new host. We celebrated together a welcome party with lots of sweets from my last host, thanks a lot for it.
Steppe


Posted Jan 31, 2012, 9:35 am
Good Morning everybody!
First of all I have a nice breakfast with cheese, jamjam :D
Steppe


Posted Feb 13, 2012, 10:46 am
Hello!
Yesterday my host did a "partylite-party", where you can buy nice candles...I have tried a lot, it was very funny and stinky :D
Steppe


Posted Feb 22, 2012, 10:32 am
Look Mummy, I got a bathing suit!
Steppe


Posted Mar 24, 2012, 3:06 pm
Hallo guys,
today we took a trip to Heilbronn with car. And I was allowed to sit in the front of the car ;-)
Steppe


Posted Mar 25, 2012, 10:53 am
Here I am near Heilbronn in Neckarsulm.
Is it not nice here?
Steppe


Posted Mar 25, 2012, 10:55 am
It was such a nice weather for eating ice-cream  :D
Steppe


Posted Mar 25, 2012, 11:19 am
And here we waked along Neckarsulm.
For swimming it was too cold :(
Steppe


Posted Mar 29, 2012, 1:38 pm
At last of our journey at our host Steppe we were dancing ZUMBA because she is an instructor. It was so funny, everbody should try it!
Steppe


Posted Mar 29, 2012, 2:07 pm
And now our journey in Bietigheim-Bissingen ends.
We say thank you to our host for all.
Mummy we come home!!!
Steppe


Posted Jun 21, 2012, 8:43 am
Joe is at home!

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