Intern's Diary#4: Where Everybody Knows My Name
by Adela Lovric, 11.April 2013
My social life became significantly richer a few days ago when friends from Croatia moved to Berlin. To Neukölln, to be precise. I learned that you have to be precise with these things; even Neukölln is a broad term.
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Intern's Diary#3: Wall of Fremdscham
by Adela Lovric, 4.April 2013
This week was inevitably marked by omnipresent holiday spirit. Even in the hallway of my building (or was it sarcastic? -see picture above). I didn't really have the urge to celebrate Easter. For the sake of family tradition I cooked myself an egg.
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Intern's Diary#2: Failure - The Secret to Success
by Adela Lovric, 27.March 2013
Drinking my coffees like there's no tomorrow and interning like nobody's watching. Maybe if I keep doing everything wrong, it turns out to be absolutely right?
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Intern's Diary#1: Beginner's Luck
by Adela Lovric, 21.March 2013
My dignity is still intact since I arrived, and I didn't use any of the nice colorful Bigs guides to make party hats. 
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Diary Entry 6
by Katy Hawkins, 5.September 2012
 I somehow managed to get Salmonella (which I had half thought was a made-up illness used to ward off children from licking the bowl when making cakes) so I ended up spending a week in the Gastroenterologie ward in Klinikum Friedrichshain (a hospital with very beautiful grounds...
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Diary Entry 5
by Katy Hawkins, 16.August 2012
As the office that I currently work in is located in the new-new Berlin gallery "hot-spot", situated around the Check-Point Charlie area, I have been attempting to break up the monotony of the working day, or to find some quick-fix through occasional visits to the surrounding...
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Diary Entry 4
by Katy Hawkins, 8.August 2012
Living spitting distance from Simon-Dach-Straße now, has forced me to often ask the question of -what differentiates me from the tourists? Is Berlin more my home that theirs? And, consequently- what makes anywhere your home? Knowing the literal geographical-city, the short-cuts...
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Diary Entry 3
by Katy Hawkins, 1.August 2012
So, to pick up where I left last time... Money
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Intern's Diary Entry 1 (and 2)
by Katy Hawkins, 27.July 2012
My involvement with Bpigs has been a bit…haphazard to date. The post you are about to read in now, is approximately 5 months delayed...  
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The Interns Diary (final)
by Sarie Nijboer, 10.January 2012
Looking for the next Interns Diary Girl- Guy!!!  
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The Interns Diary (part 10)
The Interns Diary (part 10)
by Sarie Nijboer, 19.December 2011
Dear diary, From Monday till Wednesday looking for the perfect working annex coffee place kept me busy. My dearest neighbor with whom we share the internet turns it off every night, and most of the time she forget to turn it on again… That's how my search for the perfect place...
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The Interns Diary (part 9)
by Sarie Nijboer, 9.December 2011
Dear Diary, Winter has arrived and I am spending more and more days at home.. so this time no stories about bars. Or maybe a few.... because on Sunday Despina took me and the other girls, Maria and Rachel from Pigs, out for dinner at Themroc and we ended up at a nice bar with...
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The Interns Diary (part 8)
The Interns Diary (part 8)
by Sarie Nijboer, 2.December 2011
Dear diary, I'm already at the half way point of my internship… and because living in Berlin feels so normal I decided to go to Copenhagen for a weekend… Berlin is sooo boring and of course there is nothing that I've missed this weekend… no expos, no parties, no reading… Argh...
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The Interns Diary (part 7)
by Sarie Nijboer, 15.November 2011
Dear Diary, A quote from Willem the Kooning on the front of the building of my school says, "You have to change to stay the same", quite inspiring for an art academy but not only for an art academy. Bpigs is growing… every week we get more and more people who subscribe to the...
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The Interns Diary (part 6)
by Sarie Nijboer, 2.November 2011
My Friday night was a pub crawl of exhibition openings instead of pubs. We started at Watchlist. A long walk for a small exhibition of paintings in a beautiful old factory with tasty prosecco. At a gallery on Heidemannstrasse we saw huge paintings, rich people and even more...
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