der andere Praktikant

Last Thursday I met another intern at Rolls-Royce who happened to also be from the Netherlands. His name is Ton and he is also working for my boss doing some different CFD work. It turns out that when I started, I actually took his spot because there wasn't any other room in the office, but he was moved to somewhere else relatively close so it was no problem. Ton's native language is also Dutch, but he likes to speak English rather than German because it's difficult to switch back and forth. It was very interesting talking to Ton about Germany and Berlin because he too is somewhat a foreigner here.

We ended up going out together over the weekend along with Joe, the other kid from GEARE who lives in Berlin. First, we went from bar to bar, talking about random things and then we went to this place that Ton knew of called Kulturbraurei. I guess this used to be one of the largest breweries in Germany but after it got shut down, they converted it into a bunch of bars and restaurants. Here's a picture of it, but it's hard to see because it was dark out. We ended up going to a club here called Club 23 (original huh?) We didn't get there until about 1:00 AM and the line still took us about an hour to get through... Germans really like to go out late... The place was a stereotypical insane German disco with four floors and LOTS of crazy techno. They also had some other rooms with hip hop/R&B and also another room with "classic rock"-ish American music. We had a great time dancing the night away with hundreds and hundreds of other Germans. I didn't leave till about 5:00 and slept through my train stop on the way home making the whole trip take another 2 hours. At 7:00 AM I finally got home and fell asleep to the sounds of birds chirping outside...