The corner of Grunbergerstrasse and Zeumestrasse.

Okay.

Okay.

I’m Monika.

I’m Alberto

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It would be nice if you said something like, your name, where you’re from, in Italy, and um, what you’re doing right here, now, or in Berlin, what you’re doing in Berlin.

Okay, um, uh, my name’s Alberto. I’m living, uh, in Italy.  Uh, in Milan(?) but uh, I was born, uh, in the Northeast, uh, maybe you know the city called Udine.  Um, so, I’m here just to visit a friend living in Berlin.  Uh, and Tanya friend living in Berlin.  And uh, that’s it.  I, I mean, we just arrived, uh, three days ago.  It’s not my first, it’s not my first time here.  Uh, I try to come as offer as, ah, as often as I can.  As uh, Berlin ah, (click, click) is super.  (Laugh)

(Laugh) What do you like about it?  And..

The way of living and uh, the people, um, I mean, uh, the mood of the city.  No?  The mood of the city, yeah I can say it. Uh…

How would you describe it—the mood of the city?

Uh, like uh, uh, like, the city, the, I mean the, the impression is, uh, is very free, is not uh.  You know, I mean in, in this moment I don’t like Italy. I mean uh, I think in Italy in this moment it's uh, it’s um, it’s a very, a very confused moment, I mean politically, and uh, the society, and the politically, the politic class.  I mean uh, it’s quiet a big mess, at the moment.  And uh, so, I see the difference.  In Germany I see the difference.  But in Germany as well, well, my girlfriend is uh, is uh, she’s living in France, in France.  And uh, I mean, I see a lot of difference socially. I mean, I mean, uuhh.  I’m talking about the society and uh, Well, I, I like the way German people live their life.  So, and as well, I think that people living in Berlin is not, the kind of German, I mean, is not the, the normal German as we know, no? The type, the normal kind, the normal type of, pardon, the normal type of German.

Describe your normal type of German image and compare it to what, what you experience here. 

Um, okay.

Can you say the difference that you experience?

Um, okay.  My experience with German people is uh, um, well, as a lot of people, a lot of German people coming to my, to my region, uh, in Italy, uh, to the sea. Not only just to the sea, maybe you know Grado, Lignano Sabbiadoro, Triste, city like that, or uh, places like that, and uh so, the normal family, the normal German family is uh, they’re, they’re more introverts.  They’re more quiet, more uh, more German than German from Berlin.  And, the first time I come, I came to Berlin, I was surprised to, I mean, people, Berliner people, is very, is very open, is very open, is very, likes to much, to know people, to know foreigner people, to talk with foreigner people, to, to, to drink, uh. (Laugh) I like to drink as well, so. (Laugh)

(Laugh) Where are you coming from right now and where are you going right now?  Why are you in this spot here?

Uh, I’m coming from my friend’s house, that is uh, just around the corner.  And we're going to the restaurant where he’s, he’s working.  Which is in um, Gabriel Marx Strasse.

Ah, Is it an Italian restaurant?

Yeah, it’s an Italian restaurant. It’s a uh… and uh…

And what are you going to there?

Uh, just to say hi, maybe to eat something, and then we have uh, a little, a little uh, a little visit uh, as, she’s, the first time in Berlin for my girlfriend, so, we’re gonna see maybe Alexander Platz, or, stuff like that.  And um, and tonight we’re, uh, well this evening we’re coming back, uh, ‘cause my friend is uh, is an actor, like me, and uh.  Well, he’s trying to make um, theatre, the, the um, theatre in German.  So, tonight he has a, a performance, and uh, we’re gonna see him. And uh…

Uh, Eric is, is spelling the word “werden,” by walking down different streets, and um, werden in German means becoming, um, maybe a bit changing, um, it’s, it’s a future word, like to be, to become.  Um, what has become for you today and what do you expect maybe, or, think of that might become, be happening for you, today? 

You didn’t get the question?

No, I didn’t get the question I think.

Okay.

I mean, you mean, what I’m expecting the, the day will be for, for me? Or..

Yeah.

I’m expecting the day, turn, uh,  turn up and, no…

How, like, how the day will become, or how something in the day, something you would like to become, to be happening today.

Um, mm…

I don’t know the Italian word for it.

It doesn’t rain.  Stop raining.

Yeah, me too.

Yeah, can you say it again in the microphone, because…

That’s what I wish for today.

 

Yeah.

Stop the rain.

Okay.

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Okay.  So how long are you going to stay here?

Uh, until Tuesday, Tuesday morning.  But you know it’s very, it’s very easy to come here.  Because um, you can find, you can find uh, very cheap flight with um, easyJet, so, for example I paid three, thirty, thirty-six euros, to come over here last time, this, this time.  Uh…

That’s very cheap.

Yeah, thirty-six return.

Return fair.

So, yeah.

Yeah, I see.

So I mean, I can, I can come every week. 

Okay.

It’s like the price for, for a ticket to go, you know…

To Rome.

No. It’s like…

 

Not even.

It’s normal, it’s normal, it’s normal ticket, uh, it’s normal train ticket to make uh, maybe two hours of uh… anyway.

Yeah, yeah.

Anyway.

I see. 

Okay.

Okay, Thank you.

Thank you.