One Week in Berlin (1)

I made a stop in Berlin before heading to my school. Since I have a friend & a place to stay, I've decided to make it a one week journey.

The very first thing I experience was of course, their food: Berliner Weisse!

Berliner Weisse is beer (called Berliner Weisse) flavored with syrup. It comes in red and green, depending what kind of syrup you mixed it with. It was rather sweet...but good! ;)

Since I know that I'd probably struggle a bit to try to figure everything out by myself in German...I asked my friend to take me grocery shopping. Near her place there is a Netto and a Lidl. They are both very similar. If you come from the state and have seen an Aldi's, they are pretty much the same.

One thing to be kept in your mind: you have to buy your own plastic bags.

For me who came from US, you get as much plastic bags as you want, and sometimes you get too much that you want a paper bag for a change. We also bring our reusable bags to the store, but more so to save the environment than to save some money from buying bags. 

Also, people really pressure you to hurry up when you check out. I often get the unfriendly glare from behind  because I am unable to put everything in my bag within my 5 second period.