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Personal Journal: Bestattungen

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So, I decided to take a little Google Street View tour of my future neighborhood in Berlin (Rosenthalerplatz FYI). Aside from the splendor that is the architecture of former East Berlin, I noticed numerous businesses called “Bestattungen” tucked into storefronts alongside the cafes, corner markets, and cell phone stores. What the hell is that, I wondered?
Undertakers. They’re undertakers. WTF Berlin?

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Personal Journal: Gear

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Camera, mini first aid kit, ink and pen supplies, sharpeners, fountain pen, measuring tape, smudge pencil, erasers, magnifying glass, charcoal, drafting pencil lead, bulb syringe for cleaning out pens, charcoal and graphite.
Camera, mini first aid kit, ink and pen supplies, sharpeners, fountain pen, measuring tape, smudge pencil, erasers, magnifying glass, charcoal, drafting pencil lead, bulb syringe for cleaning out pens, charcoal and graphite.
24 Colored pencils, drafting pencil, graphite pencil, smudger, 2 parallel pens, 2 blending pencils, 1 blending pen, and a pencil holder.
24 Colored pencils, drafting pencil, graphite pencil, smudger, 2 parallel pens, 2 blending pencils, 1 blending pen, and a pencil holder.

Field kit is (mostly) assembled! I’m not buying paper until I get to Germany. It’s too heavy. Everything else was INSANELY more expensive there (the Prismacolor pencils were $19 here $47 in Germany!) I’ve got my army engineers bag and I am ready to go!