Ok, so I got a huge surprise yesterday night when I discovered that my Berlin post had been freshly pressed! Horray! I’ll write more about that tomorrow but for now I wanted to reblog this other freshly pressed post that is also about Berlin. Enjoy!
Sabrina Ben Aouicha, project curator, Germany: memories of a nation, British Museum
Wach auf, Sabrina! Du musst dir ansehen, wie Geschichte geschrieben wird!
‘Wake up, Sabrina! You have to witness this; history is being written!’ These were the words my father woke me with, on a cold November night 25 years ago today. Although I was 8 years old (nearly 9) at the time, I still remember them today.
I think there are just a few events in recent history that are shared by people all over the world and become part of the human memory. I even dare to say there is one memory shared by every German over the age of 30. This can be summarised in one question: ‘where were you the night of 9 November 1989, when the Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall) fell?
So, where was I? I would love to say I was on…
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Making the mundane entertaining.
A fine day for an epiphany 
Congratulations, Gretchen! You are quite deserving of having this well-written piece FreshlyPressed. I’m just giddy happy for you, my friend.
Thank you! I’m a little giddy myself! 🙂
Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed…again! Awesome.
Thank you!