After officially completing my work for the semester, I walked around my neighborhood yesterday for the last time in the afternoon and around Mitte before getting dinner with friends just to get the last few glimpses of Berlin permanently engrained in my memory. It’s hard to think that my semester abroad is over. ![]() Even cuter – you can also say Tschüssi to mean “bye-bye”! (literally ciao like the Italian) in response. You usuallyuse Tschüss to say goodbye to friends or when you’re leaving cafés, and I’ve also noticed that if you say Tschüss, then a barista will usually say Tschau-Tschau Germans pronounce it as if it had two syllables, which sounds like chew-oos for all you native English speakers. While you may already be familiar with Auf Wiedersehen à la Heidi Klum on Project Runway, Tschüss is a much more common way of saying bye and is one of my all-time favorite words in the German language. While I am very excited to be back home and back at Colby so soon, I will definitely miss the experience of living in Germany and all the people I met along the way. ![]() This past week was filled with stress from finals, goodbyes, seeing and doing things for the last time, and a 16 hour travel day. The day that I leave Berlin has inevitably arrived. Two pictures of me in front of the Brandenburger Tor, 4 months apart
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