Introduction

This journey would be 10 days and take me about 4,475 miles — beyond the boundaries of a typical spring break trip. I signed up for this trip to Berlin, Germany, with 13 other Miami University students and three professors. The honors program offered this class, Film and Architecture in the Metropolis, which was taught in part by my former German professor, Mila Ganeva. As a scheduling conflict did not allow me to take the actual class, I signed up for an independent study to be able to attend the trip. So there I was — not knowing a soul and headed to a foreign city that I had visited briefly once before. It was to be an adventure.