The Berlin Wall
I usually walk past the Berlin Wall whenever I'm in Berlin for a business trip. The Zalando campus is just close to the wall, and in fact, my department's building is just beside the Uber Arena. (The Zalando campus in Berlin consists of 5 buildings AFAIK, of which some of the buildings are structured to represent letters, eg BHQ-X , the Zalando Headquarters, is shaped like an X. The building architectures are really designed to boast the city's artistic spirit. But this is beside the point.) Going back to the topic... When I walked past the walls just last week, a lot of tourists were taking pictures of the wall, scrutinizing the art walls, and just do tourist things people do when they go to a famous landmark. But I wonder, when they look at the walls, what do they actually see? Do they see the art? Or do they see what these walls used to symbolize? I first visited the Berlin Wall last July 2016 when Mama Merlyn (Manong's mom) came to visit us. There were not much ...
