Howdy Howdy Howdy. I'm just checking in. I don't really have anything specific to say, so this will probably be pretty random. I just finished putting some more albums on webshots. We had an excursion to Sachsenhausen today. It's a former concentration camp about an hour north of Berlin. It was the first German concentration camp that was used for work slave labor and extermination. It was pretty ieerie, but it was also almost hard to imagine what life was like there. The soviet did a number on it, and there's really not that much left. Most of the bunkers were gone. There is a really ugly monument in the middle of where the barracks used to bed that the soviets errected. We did see some barracks, as well as the crematorium, and a medical examiners building. We'll be visiting Auschwitz when we go to Poland. Thats about all I did today.
Yesterday was a really productive day. I got a lot done. I went to a bookstore I've been wanting to visit. The bookstore was big. And! It had the book I've been looking for, Das Märchen von Gebruder Grimm (The Brother's Grimm Fairy Tales). I also picked up a couple of souvenirs and some postcards I needed at the bookstore. Then I made my way through Mitte towards the Tiergarten. The Tiergarten is a giant park in the middle of Berlin that I needed to go visit to take some photos for my class....and I wanted to check it out to see if it would make a good place to run. On the way to the park, I stopped at a large souvenir shop and got lots more souvenirs for people back home. Then I walked around and took pictures in the Tiergarten for almost 3 hours. I took pictures of places and people in the park, as well as the Soviet WWII memorial in the park, and the Victory Tower in the center of the Park. From there, I walked down one of the large boulevards and caught a train back home (it was only one stop over, but my feet hurt and I didn't feel like walking anymore). I decided the park will be great for running and I can't wait till it gets warmer.
Friday, I didn't have class till 2:30 so I went and visited the Allied Museum in the Dahlem District of Berlin. My professor recommended it too me because I mentioned I was a Ronald Reagan fan and there was supposed to be a Reagan exhibit taking place. So I slept in a little, made breakfast, then headed to Dahlem. The museum was really nice, but a little smaller than I expected. I put pictures up on webshots. The Reagan exhibit wasn't there anymore, and instead they were working on erecting an exhibit for Elvis Presley. Don't Ask.
Anyways, its been a good week. This is the last week in February! Wow. I leave for Poland in less than two weeks! Court will be here in less than a month! Time is just flying. I miss everyone back home. Don't worry, I've still been keeping up with the news and everything. I hope Gram and Gramp are enjoying their vacation. Ok yeah, thats good for now. Ciao!
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