Ich Bin Ein Berliner

The moment John F. Kennedy visited Berlin he said this words "Ich bin ein Berliner", which means "I'm a Berliner".

Last week I was in Berlin, I lived in a house with 32 teenagers, they all come from all around the World; Chile, Moldova, Colombia, Germany, Bulgaria, Swiss, Belgium, Estonia, Latvia, Ecuador, China, Japan and Thailand. We spent 7 days sharing experiences, making new ones. We became a family.

Why I went? Well it'a a program made for all the exchange students and their brothers and sisters in their new families. I had the option to choose between a couple of places, and I was never before in Berlin, so it was perfect.

There I went to know a little of the city, important places, the Palace of Sanssouci n Postdam, the wall of Berlin, Museums, The Door of Brandenburg,  and so on. Some evenings I got to go to the theater or to restaurants for dinner, I also got shopping time (which btw. I forgot one of the bags at the train on my way back).

The last night we got to do a party inside the house, we put music with the speakers and we danced, we had fun. The next morning it was sad to say goodbye to everybody because we probably won't see us again, and yes of course we got each others Facebook but it's not the same. Some cried some didn't, some went together to the train station, but it was a morning of hugs, of saying goodbye to 32 brothers and sisters. I want to go back to this little house in Charlottenburg. To see each one of these people one more time.

- Luisa Alcocer