Rosa Luxembourg

This was a memorial dedicated to Rosa Luxembourg who was assassinated in 1919 in Berlin. There was a quote from her which I have attempted to translate as "although every tear that flows can be wiped away, it is an accusation to important busy people of the crude carelessness". I don't know much about her, another book is going on my list.

I am struck by the amount of monuments there are in Berlin. Not all Holocaust memorials but also victims of the division in Germany after 1945. This attempt to make peace with a difficult past is unique to Germany. The conversations in Britain tend to be less contrite and more crowing.

We walked to the library, returned the German history and collected an audiobook about pedagogy/German nurseries. I am going to start volunteering in a nursery next week so am trying to get an understanding of some of the issues here. I think it is similar to Scotland but there is a much larger migrant population here. There is also huge pressure on young people to get into the Gymnasium which creates a flow down of stress which affects primary and nursery age children and families.

Walked through the Tiergarten. It runs alongside the Siegessäule (victory column) and heads towards the Brandenburger Tor/Gate. An M picked up a book in the huge bookshop and in search of a cafe landed in a hipster caff with techno music and full of young folk. Vampire style we might have aged them by a few years. Mini M made pizza and we started watching the sandman on Netflix. Really enjoyed the first episode.

We walk less here than in Edinburgh and also don't have our bikes yet so decided to check how many steps. Fewer than I had hoped for so although the 10,000 is a totally arbitrary number I am aiming for that every day.