i can't understand you

i rented a bike. it was awesome! i dont think that i really did it right though. because if you can do it wrong, i sure can. i rode down pedestrian only ways, didnt understand bike lanes. oh, and i hit another biker and got jeered by the tourist crowd passing. great. but other than that, it was fabulous. the bike didnt have a basket though. i got rediculously lost on that as well. its not such a bad thing though, i rather like getting lost. i saw a few museums including the sjidickmuseum-I cant spell it- and the anne frank museum. the one i cant spell was pretty good. they had a huge exhibit on warhol. the anne frank one was a little disappointing though. i was hoping that the apartment would still ahve all the furniture and everything... it didnt. and it was packed of people. i guess it would be better if i hadnt read the book a bajillion times before. but mostly in amsterdam, i just wandered. the last night i was there, i went out. the girls i was with decided to go to the red light district and coming back the girl leading-who had only been there for a day- took us back from east to west and then south. oh well though.

the train to berlin cost so much money-100 euros. on the train, a guy asked in german if he could sit besides me and i thought that maybe he asked if anyone was sitting there. i said no. he left and then i realized what was going on. i'm not quite psyched about berlin yet. everything is so new. and i recognize that berlin was rediculously bombed out during ww2, but still... so very new. i think i need to find the residential part, but i have a sinking suspicion that i've been walking through that bit. i tried to wander today, and did. i saw the parlimentary building, berlin dom, the tv tower, and the national history museum. at the national history museum, i kept being told things about my bag. at first, i had it on like a backpack and they told me that i couldnt do that. so then i had it normally, and for somereason, she told me that i had to carry it in my hand. at least i am presuming that they told me this through hand motions. they didnt speak english as regularly as in amsterdam. i am rather looking forward to going to the bahaus. but i think that i might try to cut out of here early and go to dresden or something. some city rather on the way to prague, but im not sure which one yet.