long time no blog. i only have a few stories about berlin:
I accidentally took my pepper spray on the plane. It wasn't confiscated during any part of the plane's security screening. It was, however, taken at a club in Berlin.
There was a large map of the city created out of foodstuffs at a party (mmm), which also had drummers playing along to djs.
People stay out really late, the city is really relaxed and there is amazing food.
The people who live there, including former Lansing folks and former Istanbul folks, are absolutely wonderful.
It would be cruel to Istanbul to even attempt to compare the two.
Upon our return, a mass (probably around 40) of Turkish folks pushed officemate and me repeatedly because they kept going into the wrong lines at the airport and, instead of walking around, decided to attempt to cut by sneaking through us to another area of the airport. After both of us asked them to please stop pushing us, one of them kicked officemate. A grand return to this lovely country and city, with an extra impetus to continue studying math(s!) and Turkish.
Lots of longform articles that are cool!
This one is about homeboy industries, run by an awesome Jesuit priest, with a tiny shoutout to Eli Broad and his first company (sort of). I wonder if the Catholic church thinks he's spending too much time on poverty and not enough yelling at women to stop using abortion because God wants hoards of little Catholics running around? Hmmm.
This one is about over
a million gallons of diluted bitumen derived from tar sands spilling into the K-zoo river. Horrifying. I had no idea that happened. However, I will say that the article had some sentences that I was confused by:
With the national jobless rate still high, more and more Americans are willing to accept the environmental and health risks associated with pipelines that carry tar sands crude.
What? Jobless rates have to do with environmental and health risk acceptance levels?
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