Status: One Week

Now that I’ve been here in Berlin for a week, I can explain more of what I’d like to get out of this next and final week. I’m not a traditional student (as in I am not enrolled in a degree program) and I’m not here to fulfill any grade or major requirements. I’ve never taken a journalism class before, never interviewed someone I didn’t already know, never edited audio…the list goes on and on. So why am I here in a photjournalism class?

The hope was that I’d expand my photogrpahy, or at least to start trying to think differently I actually dislike shooting many styles of people photos, so I don’t do it often. I hoped to learn about photojournalism here and try shooting something different than what I normally do. So, is it working?

I’ll probably have to answer that in another week. Yesterday I visited Cupcake, Berlin’s first cupcake shop, and did my photos and audio for our final project. I was probably more excited about the cupcakes than the project! Seattle has at least 3-4 cupcake shops, and it is good to see one pop up in Berlin – and the cupcakes themselves are delicious. The owners, Dawn and Daniel, sure have a great little shop going on – and I plan to go back and get some more cupcakes before I leave.

I also visited Spreepark, which is a partially abandoned amusement park – lots of old rusted rides sitting in a forest. I even found some dinosaurs. I’ll share some photos once I get through processing them.

Now I really want to focus on seeing Berlin.