Yeah, this is the life. This afternoon after German class and a walking tour of one of the cooler neighborhoods in Berlin, three other Burns fellows and I stopped in at a biergarten. Hey, we were talking about journalism and stuff! It was totally work!

See that bright green drink on the table? Yeah, that’s my drink. I was inspired to get it when I saw a teenager in front of me in line order one. (The drinking age is low here for beer.) It’s a local beer mixed with fruit syrup, which they keep in plastic squirt bottles.

I’d already tried the pink version, which I think is raspberry flavored. The English translation on the menu helpfully told me that the green one is “woodruff”-flavored. Not by her. Apparently it’s an herb. The drink tasted a lot like green sherbet. I think I’m going back to pink next time.