Berlin’s Top Models

BERLIN - It’s like clockwork.

I’ll be at the Lining Bar, one of the Berlin’s sexiest bars, one where you can really splurge. The white silk of the bed on which I’ll be reclining on shines flourescently in the soft blue light spilling out from behind the bar. The way I’ll be lying there sipping my Singapore Sling, watching a plethora of scantily clad women milling around the bar will remind me of pool parties at the Mandalay Bay that I’ve never been to. I’ll be radiating sexuality and confidence with the seductive way I wrap my lips around the straw of my next drink, a Vodka Gimlet. All the while The DJ will have been spinning something appropriately minimalist, something that’ll make you feel really sophisticated and avant garde in a European kind of way.

Unfortunately, the beer is fucking expensive—fun at this bar comes at a steep price.

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Dear Grandma

Well, I’m all packed and ready to go. In a mere two days time, I will be in Berlin. Things sure go fast, don’t they? It seems like just yesterday I was accepting various prestigious awards for high school academics and athletics; and now here I am, living the dream I have cherished since childhood: studying abroad.

Life in Southern California has been growing a little stale, a little too familiar. Going to the beach everyday in December has gotten boring and I’m tired of going to the same old charity events with the same old people — I feel like I needed a change. I needed to “get out.” That’s why I’m leaving for my junior year. (more…)