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June 1, 2026

Our home-away-from-home

[Text and photos by Program Director Peg Alden]

The Center for International Exchange (CIEE) provides a central and convenient location to call home for the three weeks that we are in Berlin. Classrooms, courtyards, dorm rooms, kitchens, and a cafe in a lively, accessible neighborhood just a stone's throw from a U-Bahn stop.

Students sitting in a classroom facing the instructor with a window open in the background.
Our classroom.
students sitting on couches with a large round coffee table.
The CIEE lobby.
three people at a kitchen counter with a buffet spread out in front of them.
All ready for Saturday's group dinner in the CIEE collective kitchen.
A group of students standing in an arched entrance to a courtyard.
In the CIEE courtyard, ready to head out to the Turkish market.