Got an invitation to have breakfast with my aunt, her new boyfriend and my cousin at their new place. I decided to take a different route with public transportation system, I took the streetcar all the way. It was pretty interesting to see some of the changes of the last decade. My grandpa took me to my aunt because he bought a new laptop and had some problems, of course. My aunt’s flat is really nice, a bit unusal though, because when you enter, you are right inside the living room. Had good breakfast with them - not that I was really hungry after all the food from the past day.
Helped my grandpa a bit with his laptop and realized that Windows can be really confusing, especially if it had been preinstalled with some strange tools, that automatically clicked on a button if you stayed over it long enough - sometimes with undesired results. Explained somce concepts of selecting and drag’n'drop. After that I wanted to install some security updates but the update server did not respond. The internet connection was horribly slow - I am not sure if I was just spoiled with my DSL connection at home or if there were some general network problems.
My aunt is working at the opera and she and her boyfriend took me to see the “Barbier”. Wandered around with her boyfriend through Berlin because we had to arrive earlier, so that my aunt could start to work. Stopped at the “Ständige Vertretung” - a famous pub where politicians during the government move from Bonn to Berlin stopped by and had a good old home-brewed beer - they still do that. Decided to do the same thing and had a Kölsch. Wandered around some more through the streets, got some food and returned to the opera. I cannot really judge if the play was outstanding or not, since I have rarely seen any operas in my life so far but overall I liked it.
Rejoined with my aunt after the performance and chatted some more before they took me home.