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On Saturday Stefano and I enjoyed the warm weather traveling to Potsdam and visiting its famous park and castles. The last time I went to Potsdam was, I guess, 4 years ago, when I moved to Berlin and my parents visited me just one month later. It was really nice to visit again such a nice place even if the weather was too hot and unpleasant.
When we left the park we met Emiliano and his Greek colleague (let me call him Αριστοτέλης, because I still didn’t understand his real name) who were ready for the tour we just finished.
Back in Berlin, after a refreshing shower, we went to Rissani in Kreuzberg to have a huge schwarma and felafel dish, before heading to the Volkspark Friedrichshain for a kinda party Tessa and her friend told us the night before.
Unfortunately the party was relocated under a bridge close to Treptower Park because the police was already guarding the Volkspark… Too bad: it was quite annoying to sit on the cement instead of the grass. Surprisingly Bernat was at that place too and we had nice time all together.
Jamba is definitively too big for Berlin

On Friday Stefano was still my guest and I had to take care of him during those few days.
In the daytime I went to work while he visited the zoo and Knut, we met then again for lunch when we ate sushi together with Yosefine and Cecily (the place on Oranienburgerstraße was ok, the sushi delicious, but the value for money was quite low ). We had a long break, which is why Cecily wanted to work longer that night (it is typical American to call it night even if it’s 6 pm and the sun shines?), she said

I feel guilty, and I’m not even catholic!

This kind of jokes were quite new for me a couple of years ago because in Italy almost everyone is catholic (or pretends to be) and nobody would understand them. I found it anyway funny
In the evening Desi invited me and Stefano to join her family at I Due Forni where I had a surprisingly tasty Pizza Boscaiola and a couple of glasses of Sambuca
Later, we all went to Tessa, who lives in Kreuzberg. It was a while ago the last time I spoke with her and I finally could practice some Dutch Her boyfriend is still working for Jamba: I saw him a couple of times in the office but I never realized he was Icelandic. We spent there a couple of hours and Tessa had a present for me: a key ring with small Dutch clogs I really miss her at work but I’m happy she found something much more interesting at the embassy.