Day 35-Wontons in my pants

Berlin has been incredible. After parting ways with Ms. Hannah in Prague (she went to Regensberg to spend more time with our friend from Munich-could it be love?! :) , I took the 4.5 hr train to Berlin. I found the hostel and when I got to our room, an even better find...my beloved Turk taking a nap! "Reunited and it feels so good..."(sorry)
She woke up and we decided to randomly stroll the streets and ended up finding some random flea market with people selling all sorts of useless things and hand drum players chilling on the adjacent grassy knoll. We were both starving, so after assessing every menu and price in the district, Asli finally settled on a Thai restaurant. We had a nice time catching up and headed back to the hostel after picking up some fruit from a "markt."
We met our roommates in our 4-bed dorm room, who were two great guys from London and Bath named Justin and Owen. We told them we'd see them downstairs in the hostel coffee shop and eventually met them after scoring some eis (ice cream). The whole hostel is awesome, called Circus and complete with bright paint colors and fun photos of Berlin in the brand new setting. A huge pillow, comforter and free clean sheets complete the sweet deal. The coffee shop downstairs is a comfortable and reasonably priced place, and they had live guitarists doing a jam session while we became aquinted. Asli rounded up some more friends, Lindsey and Michelle, later on and more people just kept joining us. Eventually, we had a whole crew going, which was soon dubbed Team Awesome by the adorably dorky Yale graduate with us. We all hung out that night in the Hostel bar downstairs, and had a great time. By the end of the night in the red-lit atmosphere, we all agreed to meet up for dinner the following evening by leaving a note on the community board, of course addressed to you-know-what team.

The next day, Asli and I grabbed breakfast with the roomies before running (literally) to catch up with a tour. It was an all day (11am-8pm) walking tour, guided by a colorful, long-haired German history grad student from Oregon named Preston. We saw all of the major sights and figured out what spots we wanted to head back to in the subsequent days, and also had a wonderful history lesson and fun facts the whole time. Worth every euro.
We ended up going to the hostel bar, then to a very weird East Berlin cabaret place, then back to the hostel bar for some live music and open mic night where we all rocked out to an Uzbekistani guy singing the chorous of every Beatles song known to man. I met a couple other cool guys named Simon (Australia) and Donny (Nebraska) before heading to bed at 3:30 am.

We had breakfast with the roomies again after a too-short sleep, then said our goodbyes. We took off walking and hit up Museum Island (the Berliners are very accurate with their naming of places, roads, etc. ex: there is a road that translates to "the road behind the church" and thats exactly what it is). We saw a great Egyptian exhibit with the head of Nefertiti and other great works, then to the Pergamon museum where we saw a completely intact Greek altar and an exhibit of a preserved city from the Mt. Vesuvius eruption in AD 79, I believe. At the museum we caught up with Donny from the night before and decided to grab some dinner together. We ended up having Chinese, and while sitting outside, the wind caught my styrofoam wonton soup bowl and threw the scalding liquid onto my lap in the chilly night. Nice. I love wonton so much I decided to wear it. We headed back to the hostel and here I am!