My Studentenwohnheim (dorm) sets up trips/activities for us and in March we went and visited the Bundeskanzlersamt (Federal Chancellor's Office), or in other words this is where the Prime Minister works.So this is Aaron acting 'cool, calm' and trying to seem as non-dangerous as he can...for some reason I wasn't on the list to enter, but Frau Ebel (one of the women who runs our dorm) got me in - Thanks Frau Ebel! ;)
Our tour guide had actually given a presentation at our Studentenwohnheim before - he grew up in East Germany and was imprisoned for a number of months in solitary confinment because he tried to flee to the West.
He knows a lot and gave us a tour of the entire building...
We all got to pose at the 'temporary' permanent news conference area. Our tour guide pointed out the danger of hiring 'star architects' - very little in the building is functional. The real news conference room isn't big enough - the hallways are 'too acoustically good' to the point that regular noise is too loud for all the office workers in the area....etc.!!
This is a hall with portraits of all prime ministers/Chancellors of the Federal Republic of Germany (what we used to call West Germany...). I don't know if you can notice, but everything is in this mint green color (the railings, etc.) - that's because the archtiect when he was a poor student really wanted a Porsche that was this green mint color! Funny, eh?
This is where the power-power types eat their lunch....hmm....our tour guide explained that even if the government wanted to replace all the light bulbs (like they're doing in Australia) they couldn't - the architect holds the copyright to the whole building and it can't be changed without his consent! (This is what our tour guide meant by 'star architects' ;)
And here are the stairs where the foreign dignitaries climb up to the 'temporary' permanent news conference area. I like the photo!
