Dancing in Cyrillic and Reservoirs of Art

Oh, my goodness, what a fabulous weekend!

Yesterday evening was Russen Disko, a crazy clubnight playing a mixture of Russian and Ukranian pop music. It was started by Wladimir Kaminer, a Russian autor who has lived in Berlin for years and is a bit of a local treasure, and it's really rather famous, getting really good reviews in guides'n'stuff and still being popular with locals and Eastern expats alike a few years after starting. 

Well, it did not disappoint. Honestly, I tanzed like a loonpot! I think the teapots of cocktails we had consumed before coming out - made of lovely German Korn spirit, at just £3.50 a bottle - may have had summat to do with this. And once it got going, the floor was packed. Argh, it was so cool! It's at this club/restaurant/thing on the same road as my flat, like seriously close, called Kaffee Burger, which is decorated in the most fabulous DDR style, including ancient floral wallpaper and bad commi light fittings. It was so perfect. The only bad thing was that being lightweight Cambridge students, (I went with a few fellow expats) we left at about half two, at which point there were still a lot of people only just coming in.
I'm defo gonna have to get into partying all night long, I mean I have done it quite a few times before. My flatmate didn't get in until gone six this morning and then slept until half six this afternoon. Nice one.

Right, so then today was also amazing. Me and Rosalind, one of the aforementioned expats, decided to Do Something with our Sunday, so she came over here for planning. After looking thorugh a few of the listings, we decided to go up to a former underground reservior in Prenzlauer Berg, which is now used for artsy things, where there is currently a sort of Soundart Installation. It might sound pretentious, but it was actually AMAZING! Seriously, it was really creepy and moving and weird. The reservoir itself was totally freaky, a concentric network of big brick tunnels, and this amazing space had loads of speakers all over the place playing really interesting atmospheric sounds. It was all done to play with the space and kinda confuse your senses. Argh, it's impossible to put into words how cool it was. It was just such an overwhelming sensory experience. Full marks. We were in there for ages and it only cost 3€! There was
actually even two of them...another one had big plates of glass and metal functioning as speakers, which was fun. I love modern artsy things, so much better than paintings of fruit and wars.

So, then we wandered round Prenzlauer Berg a bit. I still hadn't been up into the heart of that bit of town and OMG it's so bloody nice. Like, Germany does Paris or summat. And it was really cold and crisp and felt deeply festive. Marvellous. And we played on this terifyingly odd merrygoround thing.

Good times. I like Berlin.