A Year Remembered: 2012 in Berlin and Ithaca ~ Up and Coming

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

A Year Remembered: 2012 in Berlin and Ithaca

12:43 AM Mathea No comments

I spent half of 2012 in Berlin and it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. A brief recount of my time spent abroad:

My street:

My stop on the U-Bahn:

Zehlendorf:

A brief yet memorable trip to Duisburg and Aachen to visit Kirsten!

Back to an incredibly cold and snowy Berlin. Ice skating on the Krumme Lanke Lake:

A visit to the Treptower Park in Berlin with my second (German) family:

Berlin and the Fernsehturm:

Brandenburger Tor:

A view inside the Reichstag:

View from one of my language intensive classrooms in Mitte:

Alexanderplatz Station that I walked past every day:

Berliner Dom and the Fernsehturm:

Brandenburger Tor:

Spring break in London visiting a few friends:

And a 3 day solo trip to Edinburgh:

Another long weekend with a good friend from school in Amsterdam:

More exploring in Berlin (the Hauptbahnhof):

I helped one of my oldest friends start painting his new apartment:

Spent a long break in Prague with friends I was studying in Berlin with:

May 1st spent at a rave with thousands of Gemans at an abandoned Nazi airport (Templehof):

Prenzlauerberg:

Gay pride parade ending at the Brandenburger Tor:

Second to last week in Germany traveling around a few different cities (Dresden):

My first ICE train from Dresden passing through Frankfurt to Cologne:

Spent a few days visiting a good friend from high school in Cologne:

My friend from high school and I traveled to Munich for another short visit:

We stayed at a great hostel where everyone was piled into one massive tent and gave people the opportunity to meet one another:

Traveled with my German family to the forests in the suburbs of Berlin:

We all also took a great day trip to a beautiful lake an hour or so outside of Berlin:

We stopped at a beautiful castle on the way home and I took a few pictures:

After 5 1/2 months I move out of my apartment in late July:

A view of Alexanderplatz at dusk (right around the corner from where I lived):

One of my best friends, Julie, came and spent the last week and a half with me in Berlin:

After one of the best times of my life I came back to Ithaca and did an amazing photo shoot with friends and started my last semester at IC off to a great start:

I was also in my senior capstone class in photography at my college and had an amazing senior show. Below are a few pictures from my workshop project on the formation of identity in adolescent girls: