Jazz Night, Berlin 1996

Our team just spent the evening at a concert in Berlin.
In 1996.
As extras on a film set. Best night ever.

We were invited to play fans at a jazz concert in an independent movie about an Ethiopian drummer. There were a handful of Europeans who had also been cast, but the crew was really happy to have a huge group of Americans (pretending to be Germans) for their crowd. They moved us around in strategic ways so it would look like there were more of us, and for three hours they played the same melody very loudly, over and over, while we danced and clapped and they changed shots. They repeatedly promised "Just one more!" but I think they were just trying to keep our spirits up.

As for the rest of the day, we did not stop going once. We spent the morning in a meeting, learning Ethiopian history and more about the culture, as well as spending time in the Word together and going over our team dynamics. Tomorrow we will officially begin our separate schedules; the campus track will start getting ready to go out and meet with people, and the film track will meet with the Ethiopian students and start our film classes. 

Today was also our first experience with public transportation. We passed a string of donkeys, a man on a horse, a cat, two roosters, and three cows just chilling in the middle of the highway. While walking down the street this morning we ran into a man with two sheep on a string. A man saw me laughing at them and asked, "You find this funny?"
"Yes," I said. "We don't have sheep just walking down our streets."
"Ohhhhh," he replied, and he looked very amused.