Day 12: So much brain

The Free University has a library that is called the Brain. It is called that because it is built in the shape of one. It was one of those buildings that are so cool that it makes you want to study in it.

Valeria also helped me get a Uni lunch with her Mensa card. It meant lots of pasta and a bowl of salad for around 1.50€. Crazy! It was subsidised meals for Berlin students. NZ/Aus could learn a lot from that.

From there, we went to this theatre production where my brain was blown. It was no ordinary theatre - it was contemporary art and incredibly interactive. Everyone got an iPad and set of headphones. You went into the theatre, which had been set up into about 10 different rooms or locations but that are all joined, like a big house. This was called the 'Situation Room.' The iPad is so that you become the character that you hear and can see on the iPad. The iPad becomes your eye and you act out everything yourself from that same perspective that you see on the screen. So, when a person passed another person on the iPad, another person would walk past in real life at the exact same moment as well. Sometimes you'd be asked to interact with them. Sometimes you'd have to move props around or eat real soup. It was mind blowing. Each story was 7 minutes long, and then you'd become a new character. All the stories were fairly separate in the digital world, but we're very intertwined in terms of real life. I hope I've explained this alright. It really is beyond my capabilities of trying to articulate the complexity and awesomeness of the whole thing.

After that I caught up with Elliot and Steph who arrived today in Berlin for a few bevys and dinner. Great conversation was had over more interesting German beer.

I got home and decided I'll head to Budapest in the morning.

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