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The World Cup

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I was lucky enough to be in Berlin during the World Cup soccer tournament. Even the Brandenburg Gate got dressed up for the occasion.

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People huddled around a TV outside the KaDeWe department store during the Germany/US game on friday.

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Wensday afternoon, the area around the Kaiser Willhelm Church and Zoo Station became filled with people wearing turkish flags such as this one. The crowd spilled out into the streets and scary looking police where brought in to direct traffic. I didn't know it at the time, but Turkey had just made the quarter-finals. I never heard salsa music blaring out of a car before I came to Utah, and I never heard Turkish music blaring out of a car before I visited Berlin.

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All German police uniforms look vaguely like army uniforms, but the crowd-control police are especially imposing.


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