Today we were learning about the past. Not only as a grammatic issue though, since the examples for Prateritum and Plusquamperfekt were shown in a text about the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was maybe from a newspaper from the next day of the fall, and it was very interesting, as we all live here now, where all of this happened 20 years ago.

When I was first in Berlin in the end of February we went to Potsdamer Platz, where you can visit a quite spectacular part of the expositions created for the Jubilee of the Fall today as well. The exhibited posters contain holographic images, where as you move your head, you can see how certain places and buildings in Berlin looked liked when the Wall was still up, and how they look today. From there you can as well walk by the line of the once existing wall (it can still be seen on the pavement) to Checkpoint Charlie, and read numerous posters and documentary images of the attempts of desperate East-Berliners trying to get to the West. Some of them succeeded, but most of them had a sad story, which you can read there.

Anyways, that night was a happy moment not only for the Berliners, but for the whole world, so it was really great reading about it, and learning the grammatic structures as well. 

See you tomorrow,
Gabor